I went through a bunch of note-taking apps before I settled on a git directory that's auto-synced once an hour. This bash script is all it takes. cd ~/notes if [[ ''$(git status --porcelain) ]]; then git stash save git pull --rebase git stash pop || true git add . git -c "user.name=Phil Kulak" -c "user.email=nope@kulak.us" commit -m "''$(date)" git push origin main else git pull fi
Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
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Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
#72Low-key I have been looking for something like Obsidian-but-freeish to try since a while - I think this is exactly what I searched for. Going to give it a go during the weekend definitely. On a different note, what's the long term sustainability plan? Relying on donations rarely works... I guess it's not very expensive to host text, but still, its cost is not 0. "Unlimited free forever" is either not free, doesn't la…
> Low-key I have been looking for something like Obsidian-but-freeish to try since a while Have you tried LogSeq? I think there are a couple other FOSS similar notes apps
Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
#73Low-key I have been looking for something like Obsidian-but-freeish to try since a while - I think this is exactly what I searched for. Going to give it a go during the weekend definitely. On a different note, what's the long term sustainability plan? Relying on donations rarely works... I guess it's not very expensive to host text, but still, its cost is not 0. "Unlimited free forever" is either not free, doesn't la…
> something like Obsidian-but-freeish I'm confused. Obsidian itself is free. You can choose to pay for their sync service if you need it, but there are alternatives for that that don't cost extra.
Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
#74Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
#75I went through a bunch of note-taking apps before I settled on a git directory that's auto-synced once an hour. This bash script is all it takes. cd ~/notes if [[ ''$(git status --porcelain) ]]; then git stash save git pull --rebase git stash pop || true git add . git -c "user.name=Phil Kulak" -c "user.email=nope@kulak.us" commit -m "''$(date)" git push origin main else git pull fi
Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
#76I went through a bunch of note-taking apps before I settled on a git directory that's auto-synced once an hour. This bash script is all it takes. cd ~/notes if [[ ''$(git status --porcelain) ]]; then git stash save git pull --rebase git stash pop || true git add . git -c "user.name=Phil Kulak" -c "user.email=nope@kulak.us" commit -m "''$(date)" git push origin main else git pull fi
Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
#77What is the user exit strategy? Can I export all notes? In which formats?
Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
#78I went through a bunch of note-taking apps before I settled on a git directory that's auto-synced once an hour. This bash script is all it takes. cd ~/notes if [[ ''$(git status --porcelain) ]]; then git stash save git pull --rebase git stash pop || true git add . git -c "user.name=Phil Kulak" -c "user.email=nope@kulak.us" commit -m "''$(date)" git push origin main else git pull fi
What about mobile? Or don't you take notes there?
Simplenote used to solve this. Then, recently, they started to become less reliable at the same time as having a very large subscription price increase. Apple Notes is now okay, but awkward to log in or sync with a non-Apple device. I tried having a bunch of .txt files synced via Dropbox, but while the Dropbox mobile app will let you view offline files, it won't let you edit them unless online.
Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
#79Nit Pick feedback: it should read: “the right _number_ of features”, not “_amount_ of features”. Other than that, love the look of the site :)
Counterpoint: I know grammatically it isn't the most correct, but I don't see anything non-idiomatic about "amount of features". Reason: "Just the right amount" is a set, idiomatic expression. "Just the right amount of ___" is just extending the expression. IMO extending idiomatic expressions exempts it from a lot of the formal word-pairing conventions in English. But I'm no linguist.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
> something like Obsidian-but-freeish I'm confused. Obsidian itself is free. You can choose to pay for their sync service if you need it, but there are alternatives for that that don't cost extra.
You can’t use Obsidian for anything that makes money without buying an Enterprise license