This seems amazing, except for the fact that it's not open source and can't be self-hosted. That, to me at least, is the most important part of a note-taking app.
This is something that we've discussed quite a bit and not completely off the table.
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#92co-founder here: feel free to ask any questions!
REQUEST: Please add an option for a monospace/code font. I see that
...With this, we could be able to use it for code!
THANKS!
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#93Low-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
+1 Logseq is great. I use it with Syncthing across my devices.
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#94Why are you not charging money?
Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
#95Low-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…
(co-founder) Thanks for the comment and very valid points. When we initially started building we had subscription plans and more of a general revenue model. Over time we transitioned to the donation-based approach. We are open to revisiting the former if there is interest (and feedback) in the existing functionality or newer updates. I definitely understand the concern of "free forever" and open to input.
I would charge for syncing like obsidian does. You can set up your own syncing, but you can also pay to not have to do that and let you handle it. Especially syncing projects that multiple people have access to can be a pain. If you have a decent solution for it you should charge for it.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about mobile? Or don't you take notes there?
For me, this is always the gap that feels missing. - I want to take and view notes on various devices: mobile, personal computer, work computer, randomly logged in ad-hoc machine. - I want notes to not require me to be online all the time while writing (I work a lot on plans, or in remote locations without reliable internet) - I want notes to make reasonable assumptions about syncing, biasing on the side of avoiding…
Bear is the app you need.
It’s paid, your notes are in a database (easily exportable as .txt), but I’ve used it for years and years and it’s one of those rare apps that ‘just works’.
And it’s something like $25 a year. Utterly reasonable.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about mobile? Or don't you take notes there?
For me, this is always the gap that feels missing. - I want to take and view notes on various devices: mobile, personal computer, work computer, randomly logged in ad-hoc machine. - I want notes to not require me to be online all the time while writing (I work a lot on plans, or in remote locations without reliable internet) - I want notes to make reasonable assumptions about syncing, biasing on the side of avoiding…
I'm building a note-taking app, so I hope you don't mind, but I was wondering if you might describe how you "search" your notes while using a device's file system search? For desktop, I might use a tool like grep to do that, but that's pretty developer-y, so if you're doing something more user-friendly, that's interesting to me. What is more interesting to me, though, is what you're using on mobile to do this? I've never, personally, used my mobile's file system search to discover text in notes. But I'm on Android, so there's not really only one 'file system' with a search interface.
My thought here is it that the app is going to be saving simple text files either plaintext or richtext (markdown/html), so it should be able to provide this for you, but I haven't even considered that as a feature so I would want to test it to see if there were any rough edges to polish. Any suggestions you have would be appreciated!
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me, this is always the gap that feels missing. - I want to take and view notes on various devices: mobile, personal computer, work computer, randomly logged in ad-hoc machine. - I want notes to not require me to be online all the time while writing (I work a lot on plans, or in remote locations without reliable internet) - I want notes to make reasonable assumptions about syncing, biasing on the side of avoiding…
Bear is the app you need. It’s paid, your notes are in a database (easily exportable as .txt), but I’ve used it for years and years and it’s one of those rare apps that ‘just works’. And it’s something like $25 a year. Utterly reasonable.
All subscriptions are unreasonable.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Low-key I have been looking for something like Obsidian-but-freeish to try since a while Have you tried LogSeq? I think there are a couple other FOSS similar notes apps
Silverbullet.md is another pretty good one which allows a lot of customization. I was able to recreate my (admittedly very basic) Obsidian workflow fairly quickly.
SilverBullet looks very good, it reminds me of Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) Now if only some one combined SilverBullet with Hugo we could have a live view/edit in Hugo =) Thanks for the link.
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#100I went through a bunch of note-taking apps before I settled on a git directory that's auto-synced once an hour. This bash script is all it takes. cd ~/notes if [[ ''$(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 "''$(date)" git push origin main else git pull fi
> if [[ ''$(git status --porcelain) ]]; then
> ... "''$(date)"
What is the purpose of the '' syntax?