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Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by l8rlump »

PikachuEXE wrote: post #109

For private notes & random images/files app I would suggest trying https://joplinapp.org But I use as private notes mainly, so can't say much on file storage side. Multiple sync target (e.g. Dropbox, Nextcloud, OneDrive etc.) with E2EE. But it's not polished so expect there might some strange limitations.

I'd like to try this but it seems that there are limited options to import from Onenote. As far as I can tell, you can either try converting to markdown with an older version of Evernote (IIRC with limitations such as text formatting being lost), or use one of a few users' hacky solutions involving Pandoc. Is there an easier/better way?

Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by westurner »

vivekweb2013 wrote: post #70
kevinmgranger wrote: post #67

For me, Evernote’s killer feature is automatic OCR. (Subs that I can just upload a doc through my phone’s camera). It looks like this doesn’t have that, unfortunately.

Noted! I'll see if this feature can be added.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/curren... :

> [Teh ElasticSearch Core Ingest Attachment Processor Plugin]: The ingest attachment plugin lets Elasticsearch extract file attachments in common formats (such as PPT, XLS, and PDF) by using the Apache text extraction library Tika.

> The source field must be a base64 encoded binary. If you do not want to incur the overhead of converting back and forth between base64, you can use the CBOR format instead of JSON and specify the field as a bytes array instead of a string representation. The processor will skip the base64 decoding then

Apache Tika supported formats > Images > TesseractOCR: https://tika.apache.org/2.4.0/formats.html https://tika.apache.org/2.4.0/formats.html#Image_formats :

> When extracting from images, it is also possible to chain in Tesseract, via the TesseractOCRParser, to have OCR performed on the contents of the image.

/? Meilisearch "ocr" GitHub;

Looks like e.g. paperbase (agpl) also implements ocr with tesseractocr: https://docs.paperbase.app/

tesseract-ocr/tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

/? https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#sea... ctrl-f "ocr"

Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by tallship »

Hello @vivekweb2013, and thank you for creating this wonderful git based note utility.

I'd like to draw your attention to issue #59 and in the meantime I'll be posting a short Fediverse article, basically just an announcement at this point, with a much more in depth article to follow once the FOSS based git support enhancement is released.

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Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by vivekweb2013 »

tallship wrote: post #113

Hello @vivekweb2013, and thank you for creating this wonderful git based note utility. I'd like to draw your attention to issue #59 and in the meantime I'll be posting a short Fediverse article, basically just an announcement at this point, with a much more in depth article to follow once the FOSS based git support enhancement is released. .

@tallship thanks so much. I'll start working on that issue

Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by vivekweb2013 »

Krastan wrote: post #97
vivekweb2013 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can add the images inside markdown using existing image url. The image upload is not implemented yet. I've noted it & I'll work on this functionality Thanks for showing interest in the mobile app. I'm working on the android app prototype. You will see the app on play store soon.

Why didn't you use react native? Your website is react which would have made it easy to copy over components.

I'm not a big fan of react-native. I've tried it earlier and the app size is huge as it has to bundle so many things to make it work on android. So I prefer java/kotlin for android app which is compact and performant than react-native.

BTW I'm also checking if https://fyne.io/ can be used. I'll love to use golang for the app :)

Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by wharfjumper »

vivekweb2013 wrote: post #2

Hi Friends, I'm the author of GitNoter. I'd love to answer any questions you have

Congrats. I think there's an opportunity for a markdown-based Confluence competitor. Something that can be used by non technical people. You might want to consider that use-case/positioning rather than personal note-taking.

Major missing feature for the average user I think would be easy image/binary upload, embedding and preview.

By leveraging Github (and Gitlab please) auth it makes this usable by enterprise which is smart I think.

Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by vivekweb2013 »

wharfjumper wrote: post #116
vivekweb2013 wrote: post #2

Hi Friends, I'm the author of GitNoter. I'd love to answer any questions you have

Congrats. I think there's an opportunity for a markdown-based Confluence competitor. Something that can be used by non technical people. You might want to consider that use-case/positioning rather than personal note-taking. Major missing feature for the average user I think would be easy image/binary upload, embedding and preview. By leveraging Github (and Gitlab please) auth it makes this usable by enterprise which…

thanks so much for the feedback. I'm working on providing the image upload functionality. Markdown preview is currently available with the preview button in the right corner of markdown editor.

Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by NonNefarious »

renewiltord wrote: post #105
atleta wrote: post #103

I'm still looking for the note taking app that can replace Tomboy. Not because Tomboy is great (it isn't), but because it's actually a note taking app. Most apps seem to be this huge convoluted editors, with a UI resembling an IDE. Which I'm sure is pretty nice for creating a nice hierarchical structure, writing long documents and crosslinking them but, for me at least, note taking is about taking random short or ad…

The built-in Apple Notes has this I think. You just point to the bottom right of your screen and you can write a new note.

I used Evernote for a while, and then (if I remember correctly) they changed their terms, and I said nope. Right around that time, Apple finally pulled its head out of its ass and added groups or categories to Notes, making it viable.

Now I have everything in Notes, synced through iCloud.

Apple Notes doesn't use any standard format, but you can export your notes. Otherwise, I'd be way into an open-source, self-hosted solution.

Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

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Post by westurner »

pwdisswordfish9 wrote: post #69
westurner wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC GitHub, (BitBucket), and GitLab existed before this new (license-addendum?) Trademark policy; but may be wrong. Which is to say that I don't recall there having been such a trademark policy at the time. Isn't it actually the "Old BSD License" that retains the "may not spaketh the name" clause? (Bitcoin is also originally a LF project; in Git, like BitTorrent, and similar to BitGold only in name, for a reason. Bi…

> IIRC GitHub, (BitBucket), and GitLab existed before this new (license-addendum?) Trademark policy Trademarks are like copyright licenses where if you haven't been given explicit permission, then you don't have any. (The difference is that you can lose your trademark if you don't actively police misuse, but that's beside the point.)

Trademark > Registration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Registration
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