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Re: Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives?

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Post by Surio » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:34 PM UTC

I like to store my data locally, so that influences the choice of my note taking software.

I use cintanotes portable myself... http://portableapps.com/apps/office/cintanotes-portable It is not "opensource", but it has been most useful for keeping notes, tagging, and categorising

I also use http://portableapps.com/apps/office/keepnote-portable (http://keepnote.org/) which is FOSS and also http://portableapps.com/apps/office/rednotebook_portable (http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/) which is also FOSS.

Choose which ever you feel comfortable using.

P.S: I am also a very big fan of the portableapps format and the platform. Big shout out to John T Haller for all his hard work on this!

P.P.S: I also use the org mode at times http://orgmode.org/ :)

Re: Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives?

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Post by a3n » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:43 PM UTC

lorddoig wrote: post #11

I've been prototyping in this space for a while now - trying to scratch my own itch, as it were - and seeing as this is climbing the front page I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask HN: what exactly is it you want from this kind of application? I dislike Evernote because of it's lack of structure, dumb text with a few bells and whistles added doesn't work for me. Would love to hear any and all suggestions: person…

I am probably a very small subset of what most other people do. I've just started using Trac on my laptop as a personal wiki and note keeper, in addition to some minor bug tracking for small personal projects. My laptop almost never leaves home. I don't much care about syncing outside my home, but you could run it on a VPS. http://trac.edgewall.org/

Re: Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives?

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Post by philjackson » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:48 PM UTC

Not self-hosted, but perhaps http://yipgo.com gives you something of what you're after.

Re: Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives?

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Post by mprat » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:59 PM UTC

I use http://zim-wiki.org and make my own sync / mobile options, since as of a few months ago there was no Android version. But someone /is/ working on a mobile app.

Re: Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives?

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Post by khara » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 3:03 PM UTC

Emacs

Re: Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives?

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Post by jojoo » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 3:18 PM UTC

mixedmath wrote: post #26

npaquin wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't. Use. OwnCloud. We tried rolling it out at a small (80) employee company and it ended up being a nightmare.

What went wrong? And what did you end up using instead, and how did it handle the previous what went wrong better?

here are my experiences w/ owncloud.

settings: deployment behind a nginx, ldap login for the users.

rolling oc out was a nightmare. we tried several major releases, every time hoping things will be different.

both requirements caused a lot of trouble, we run into a lot of documented but unfixed bugs. they were often closed with the comment: ldap subsystem will be rewritten.

i thing we tested three times, each time a new major version. each time there was a new ldap system, but it was still broken.

Re: Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives?

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Post by dlu » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 3:31 PM UTC

What cloud storage provider do you prefer or are you rolling your own infrastructure?

Re: Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives?

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Post by Ixiaus » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 3:48 PM UTC

Amazed no one has mentioned Emacs' org-mode yet. Nothing I've ever tried comes close to the flexibility and usefulness of org-mode in Emacs.

Combined w/ MobileOrg sync and the MobileOrg app, it serves all of my note-taking needs quite well.

It's much more than dumb text, too, like Evernote. Structured documents with headers, markdown-like formatting, links, fast-capture templates for stray thoughts, an Agenda system (if you want it, you don't need to use it, I do and have it sync w/ my Google Calendar), exportable to HTML and a few other formats (some people even maintain their websites using org-mode).

Keywords for marking entries and a good search system (combined with Helm it's pretty amazing).

Property drawers for entries.

It's a swiss army knife of productivity applications and I use it for note taking, documents, journaling (with automatic GPG encryption of the entry body), my agenda, quick-capture of ideas, tasks, etc... I use it for grocery lists even.

Re: Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives?

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Post by lfam » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 4:02 PM UTC

I use http://syncthing.net/ to sync my notes (and whatever other files I want) across my devices, including Android. It's like a FOSS Bittorrent Sync clone, although it doesn't actually use the Bittorrent protocol.

It works very well!

Re: Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives?

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Post by unknownian » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 4:04 PM UTC

lfam wrote: post #39

I use http://syncthing.net/ to sync my notes (and whatever other files I want) across my devices, including Android. It's like a FOSS Bittorrent Sync clone, although it doesn't actually use the Bittorrent protocol. It works very well!

Syncthing is great, but the devs say they can't develop a mechanism for sync between operating systems on the same computer, which is something I really need.