Which format are they using to write/store the notes? Is it another Markdown dialect?
The notes are stored in Y.doc format because we use Yjs for our collaboration server. https://docs.yjs.dev/api/y.doc
Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline
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#302There are already quiet a few softwares that claim to be Notion alternatives or seem to be: - AppFlowy: https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy - AFFiNE: https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE - SiYuan: https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan - Trillium Next: https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes - AnyType (only clients are source available): https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-ts
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The beauty of democracy is that a single person doesn't make the decision for everyone else.
I think an open source Notion for 2€ is an absolute bargain, so there is that.
Re: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline
#303There are already quiet a few softwares that claim to be Notion alternatives or seem to be: - AppFlowy: https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy - AFFiNE: https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE - SiYuan: https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan - Trillium Next: https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes - AnyType (only clients are source available): https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-ts
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People would do the same if curl was publicly funded, that doesn't mean it would be a bad idea.
Re: Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline
#304There are already quiet a few softwares that claim to be Notion alternatives or seem to be: - AppFlowy: https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy - AFFiNE: https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE - SiYuan: https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan - Trillium Next: https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes - AnyType (only clients are source available): https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-ts
Count me as a biiig proponent and user of TriliumNext, it's in my mind and experience the most capable note taking and organising app there is, but I don't think I nor any of its developers would call it a "Notion alternative".
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#305It really feels like we are in a time where EU countries are taking front and center on the world stage with cool, progressive and unified stuff, and the US is in the ally snorting crack. Saying this as a disappointed American. But yeah…really cool to see governments collaborating this way.
It's not like the US wasn't warned about this repeatedly for decades, and yet we chose this.
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#306Hey everyone! I'm the PM working with the Docs team. Thanks a lot for the kind words, we're as excited as you to be working on such a cool project. We didn't expect to get posted so soon on HN. We still have a lot to do in terms documentation and reusability. But we'll be working a lot on that next week. We'll keep you posted here. Again thank you everyone!
Great work by the Suite Numerique team!
Are you guys looking at adding localization support for languages beyond French as well (eg. English, German)?
It would be a great alternative to multiple disjointed OSS offerings like Mattermost or Appflowy.
Also, I found the DIPT to be fairly intruiging. How much inspiration did the org get from Gov.uk, and are there some resources, papers, or books you could point to about the DIPT initiative?
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#307I just cannot understand the appeal of these browser based note taking apps. Notion, Obsidian, Outline? Is it the collaboration feature? Why not just use Google Docs or equivalent? For notes, I don't see the appeal of having a browser interface. I just put my notes in a text file. No protocol, just search for text strings or text tags. If I need hierarchical organization, I use directories. What am I missing out on?
I am currently in the process of switching from using Obsidian to manage local markdown notes/files to using Notion for at least my personal project tracking. I have 2 reasons. 1. Notions "Databases" are easier to use, edit, and manage than any similar setup I could figure out locally. And they have inbuilt integrations so you can sync things like Github/Gitlab/Jira, etc directly into your docs. I highly recommend se…
Have you tried TriliumNext? It doesn't have collaboration for editing but sharing is built in,
It lets you structure your notes in a way that's reminiscent of object oriented programming (you've got templates to define types, inheritance of attributes to instantiate and specialize them, etc). I have hierarchies of hundreds/thousands of notes that for all intent and purposes are as good as Notion's Databases
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#308Why am I starting to believe that france is now more culturally shited towards being a new super power in this multi polar world instead of USA. Seriously , I never used to really think about france that much , but Emmanuel Macron correcting trump on live air really made me trust france more as a non US citizen.
Macron’s approval ratings must be below 3% by now. If he had any backbone, he’d resign immediately.
You made me look : it's about 27% [1], which is of course not great, but actually not that bad _for him_, _in the past few years_.
The political landscape is completely split in 3 thirds in France at the moment, and people stay firmly in their lanes.
It would need an incredibly popular décision to bring anyone from the left or far right to approve of him.
[1] https://www.latribune.fr/la-tribune-dimanche/politique/barom...
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#309Does this provide database functionality like seen in Notion? I'm always disappointed by note-taking tools calling themselves a Notion alternative when they do not provide an alternative to Notion and are instead just another note-taking tool with a simple UI. If you want to be a Notion alternative provide the things that make Notion great, e.g. the database functionality. It's okay to be a simple colaborative notes…
Craft has collections for tables of data, also has a variety of other data modeled things like TODOs: https://www.craft.do/
Sadly that tool seems to be subscription only? And it does not have an Android version even though they are on iOS.
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That's really gross. I guess then everyone thinks they need to use it because all these startups use it, but it's really just a simple notepad app with many alternatives.
I have no interest in defending Notion or anything but... have you actually used it? It's not even close to a "simple notepad app." I mean, that's what it started off as, and you can use it that way, but "simple notepad app" is ludicrously wrong.
Yep. And I've hated every second when I needed to write something with it. The editor of Notion is horrible, compared to Zed, Vim, Emacs et.al. The markdown import has been broken for years, and it is not easy to export your writeups for storage outside Notion
I'm really happy I got our company out from using Notion. We just do markdown in Linear, which you can copy and paste from an editor easily.