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Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

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Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

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Post by gorkemcetin »

rrix2 wrote: post #269
kjksf wrote: post #228

Just in case someone might need it: I reverse engineered their API and wrote (an unofficial) client for accessing the data: https://github.com/kjk/notionapi It's for Go but one could easily port it to any other language. It's just HTTP requests and some light processing of JSON responses. I use it so that I can have my blog content in Notion. In a daily cron job I download the data from Notion, convert it to HTML and…

Yikes, they don't have an official API? Hardly interested in making a closed system my "central source of truth"

That is because few people really care and aware of it.

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

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Post by ernsheong »

A great deal of comments here want self-hosted capability, understandably given the HN crowd. But really, Notion is (probably) not in a position to do that, given their code being proprietary from Day 1.

I run PageDash [1], a personal web archive service, and that is also the No. 1 ask. While I can understand it, for any startup to focus on self-hosting from Day 1 is probably a shot in the foot, unless I have an open-source model from Day 1.

Just a cautionary note.

[1] https://www.pagedash.com

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

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Post by sjy »

techntoke wrote: post #7

This isn't self-hosted? I'm interested in a self-hosted solution that uses local markdown files and directories to manage content.

I'm pretty happy with Gollum (https://github.com/gollum/gollum/wiki) for this. Your data is just a Git repository containing a hierarchy of files. You run Gollum to fire up a local web server, which gives you a wiki interface to view and edit any Markdown files in the hierarchy. You can use a local Markdown editor if you prefer, as long as you commit your changes. You can choose whether to run Gollum all the time and expose the server to others, or just launch it locally when you want to browse your own repository. And you can use Git to create, push and pull branches.

Gollum also seems to have powerful customisation features like macros and YAML front matter, but I have yet to make use of them. For now, Gollum suits me as a simple, free alternative to Confluence. Notion is obviously a far more powerful product.

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

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Post by indigodaddy »

bluntcoder wrote: post #261
droopyEyelids wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you link to the Merge software you mention? It's a difficult name to google.

https://www.scootersoftware.com/index.php - (I'm not the OP but I favour Araxis Merge https://www.araxis.com/merge/index.en over Beyond Compare)

I prefer FileMerge. Built in to osx/xcode I believe.

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

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Post by favadi »

djhworld wrote: post #244

The amount of times note taking apps and products appear on the HN front page is quite amusing. Has anyone ever cracked this nut? I've been using Joplin for about a year, it works. Could be better, but does the job

Only thing I can complaint about Joplin is slow syncing. Although, it is still good enough for my needs.

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

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Post by penagwin »

kjksf wrote: post #228

Just in case someone might need it: I reverse engineered their API and wrote (an unofficial) client for accessing the data: https://github.com/kjk/notionapi It's for Go but one could easily port it to any other language. It's just HTTP requests and some light processing of JSON responses. I use it so that I can have my blog content in Notion. In a daily cron job I download the data from Notion, convert it to HTML and…

Aw this is perfect! I've been using notion and have always wished they had an api for this exact purpose! Thanks for sharing this!

Re: Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases

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Post by ekianjo »

ivanzhao wrote: post #284
louis-paul wrote: post #47

There is something about Notion that makes it feel very well-made and coherent. It’s one of the few apps I use with this inherent feeling of quality (off the top of my head Sublime Text/Merge, Beyond Compare, Things fall into this category of intangible greatness). Every interaction is delightful, and the app scales really well from basic note-taking to decently complex databases with grouping, filters, relations, te…

Notion's founder here. Thank you for the kind words - we are honored :-) To be honest, nothing we are doing is that new. Most of the ideas came from the 70s-80s (Alan Kay, Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson...) We are just applying a fresh coat of paint. Of course, there's still a lot more to be done to fully realize these pioneers' dreams of computing as a medium for everyone – not just programmers like us. If you are inter…

Since it's Electron-based are you open to the idea of supporting Linux instead of just Windows/Mac?
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