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Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor

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Notion is goat-ed! It's one of the greatest software ever created in our time imho. Y.js sounds amazing – gonna have to look into it! Have been using Liveblocks for real-time data stuff, the DX is a breeze to work with!

Notion is just a OneNote alternative.

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Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor

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Are there any examples of something similar that has the ability to seamlessly interact with tables as well? Notion seems to be the only player in the space that effectively uses its tables as linkable databases, most similar products seem to either lack table functionality or they're just simple formatted text. So much of my daily work revolves around databases and Excel, I would love the ability to have multiple vi…

Logseq mostly does this, I think. Rather than starting with a table and adding objects to it, you start with the objects in your database — pages and blocks — and then form tables by querying your database for those objects based on their attributes (tags, contents, etc).

I use Logseq as my note taking app and like it a lot (and wrote https://github.com/wsw70/dly to make quick notes taking even faster)

What I miss (but not enough to change) is the ability to have a plain Markdown page, and not only rely on bullets.

But again, Logseq is by far the closest to my style of taking notes (short, usually one/few lines blocks)

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor

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At the risk of sabotaging stuff I've worked on, it's _astoundingly easy_ to glue together Y.js, prosemirror, and a little bit of express.js to get a distributed Notion clone with conflict free resolution. Like I have something that I got working in 3 days with multiple pages, so links between things, and cursor syncing (most of this work is provided by wonderful people with full-featured libraries!). There's some tri…

fyi, from my experience it’s still quite a lot of work to build on top of Prosemirror and TipTap directly to do so. So I’ve started working on https://www.blocknotejs.org to make this even easier for developers; its a batteries-included library with Notion style UI elements out of the box. Definitely bullish on this ecosystem including Yjs and local first dev!

Can this be used in Svelte or is it only for React?

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor

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Not the answer anyone was expecting, but SharePoint Online. Wiki pages, every list you create is a SQL table with a robust API, and the power platform is one of the best no/low code solutions available. I create full react applications around this and host the SPA in a SharePoint document library.

... I'm not sure if this is the greatest idea I've ever heard, or if I want to immediately run away screaming. I've always thought SharePoint was terribly slow, but that was just from experience interacting with the web interface itself. Does the API perform well? Or is there that same inherent latency to put up with? And do you have any general tips/ideas/learnings to share about using SharePoint in this way? I defi…

SharePoint online is very fast. Good APIs too

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor

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Anyone has an alternative where I can use simple markdown files (in a folder or google drive) as the primary datasource?

I am using obsidian on the Mac, but on the go I have no real solution. (I want to avoid using the obsidian mobile app because it forces you to use Obsidian Sync)

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor

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The best self hosted alternative of Notion I have found is Outline[1] The link describing the infra[2] is an example of how it looks. [1] github.com/outline/outline [2] https://docs.getoutline.com/s/hosting/doc/requirements-ULdYn...

This project is not open source but instead uses the “Business Source License”. I only mention this in case open source is something that is important to you.

I hadn't heard of the “Business Source License”, but reading it makes it seem pretty scary. Basically any usage of the software that could be considered production is prohibited, which probably could even mean personal usage in a non-development fashion.

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor

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post #107

Anyone has an alternative where I can use simple markdown files (in a folder or google drive) as the primary datasource? I am using obsidian on the Mac, but on the go I have no real solution. (I want to avoid using the obsidian mobile app because it forces you to use Obsidian Sync)

demo.logseq.com

It's a web version of the Logseq software, it can import a local folder of MD notes.

Re: Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor

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What's the reason for such high praise for Notion? Asking honestly as I have used it and genuinely don't get the admiration.

aesthetics are very nice, and the slash menu mechanism + syncing make it nice when working with people. If Google docs looked nice this convo would be different but Google docs doesn’t look nice!

Aesthetic aside, I really admire Notion’s extensibility and rich API ecosystem — it’s given rise to website builders like https://super.so and https://potion.so, something that I haven’t seen with Google Docs/One Note
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