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Re: Laverna – Store your notes anonymously and encrypted

#12
"Laverna is webapp written on JavaScript which means it requires no installation and no registration."

"None of us can get access to your personal data because we are using IndexedDB and localStorage. In fact all your information will be stored only on client side."

So does this mean that clearing cookies in Chrome will delete all your information?

Re: Laverna – Store your notes anonymously and encrypted

#13
post #7

A good start. But... The USP of Evernote isn't that you can take notes from anywhere as much as anything can be a note (An audio clip, your current location, a picture etc) and that can be very well organised, grouped and saved in the cloud and offline on demand. It's basically a "database" for the non techies: Save everything in there and query by tags, organise by books or search in the content and meta data.

And that there is an app for most platforms. I'd actually love to see an open source version of OneNote (pen based abilities, search performance and OCR capabilities) more than Evernote.

Yup, mobile was the first thing I looked for. I can barely stand most browser apps anymore.

Re: Laverna – Store your notes anonymously and encrypted

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post #12

"Laverna is webapp written on JavaScript which means it requires no installation and no registration." "None of us can get access to your personal data because we are using IndexedDB and localStorage. In fact all your information will be stored only on client side." So does this mean that clearing cookies in Chrome will delete all your information?

If the chrome devs in their infinite wisdom lumped cookies and HTML5 localstore together, then yes.

Re: Laverna – Store your notes anonymously and encrypted

#15
I've been looking for a self hosted open source version of Evernote. I was excited when I first saw this but this isn't it. Storing all data locally defeats half the purpose. You can't even create notes on your phone and view them on your PC. Add to that, this seems to be only for text notes, which makes sense, since localStorage has a data limit of about 2MB.

Re: Laverna – Store your notes anonymously and encrypted

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post #12

"Laverna is webapp written on JavaScript which means it requires no installation and no registration." "None of us can get access to your personal data because we are using IndexedDB and localStorage. In fact all your information will be stored only on client side." So does this mean that clearing cookies in Chrome will delete all your information?

Yes, but it wouldn't take much work to add a server component. Maybe add the vole.cc backend or a couchdb adapter.

Re: Laverna – Store your notes anonymously and encrypted

#17
post #15

I've been looking for a self hosted open source version of Evernote. I was excited when I first saw this but this isn't it. Storing all data locally defeats half the purpose. You can't even create notes on your phone and view them on your PC. Add to that, this seems to be only for text notes, which makes sense, since localStorage has a data limit of about 2MB.

Ignoring the text criticism for a bit: you optionally can set it to sync to cloud services. Doesn't that solve the local storage problem?

Re: Laverna – Store your notes anonymously and encrypted

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post #15

I've been looking for a self hosted open source version of Evernote. I was excited when I first saw this but this isn't it. Storing all data locally defeats half the purpose. You can't even create notes on your phone and view them on your PC. Add to that, this seems to be only for text notes, which makes sense, since localStorage has a data limit of about 2MB.

It uses IndexedDB to store your notes. Also, the spec recommends 5MB for localStorage.

Re: Laverna – Store your notes anonymously and encrypted

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post #14
post #12

"Laverna is webapp written on JavaScript which means it requires no installation and no registration." "None of us can get access to your personal data because we are using IndexedDB and localStorage. In fact all your information will be stored only on client side." So does this mean that clearing cookies in Chrome will delete all your information?

If the chrome devs in their infinite wisdom lumped cookies and HTML5 localstore together, then yes.

Yeah, it's one option in Chrome unfortunately:

"Cookies, site, and plug-in data:

Cookies: Files stored on your computer by websites you've visited. These files contain user information, such as preferences for websites or profile information.

Site data: HTML5 enabled storage types including application caches, Web Storage data, Web SQL Database data, and Indexed Database data.

Plug-in data: Any client-side data stored by plug-ins that use the NPAPI ClearSiteData API"

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95582?p=settings_cl...

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