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I built a faster Notion in Rust

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Re: I built a faster Notion in Rust

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Post by braza »

Last year after a thread around Obsidian and the downhill of Evernote I took almost 6 months to migrate more than 100K clippings and notes and it's so refreshing to have your own data in sync in your terms and not be in any proprietary format, that I do not image myself going to anywhere that I cannot push/retrieve my notes in my own terms in a portable format.

Notion is a great product for corporations, and I get why companies are jumping on this bandwagon so fast; however, as a consumer, I wouldn't consider it or any option based on seat (like Outcrop) or any that wouldn't give me a binary that I can use in whatever machine that I want.

Re: I built a faster Notion in Rust

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Post by notachatbot123 »

neodymiumphish wrote: post #33
xanth wrote: post #21

This looks like it has great potential, but what I really want is an open source "notion" with a well considered plugin & schema model. I desperately want to sync back all my data into a single cohesive graph; notes, reading list, messages, exercise activity in a more compute friendly format than MD files.

It's definitely a work in progress, but AnyType has a lot of functionality similar to Notion. I haven't used it in a while, so I don't know whether there are plugins in any meaningful capacity. From past experience, it's even pretty simple to host your own sync server to get away from their account/storage limits.

AnyType is not open-source.

Re: I built a faster Notion in Rust

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Post by braza »

echelon wrote: post #35
shmoogy wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obsidian isn't open source

I'm still happy to use it. It's not like they can rug pull on the data or even the existing app binaries. I'd really like to see the team get rewarded for their work, too. I'd be sad if it went 100% open and they didn't so much as draw a market salary from it. I think if it went open, they'd get nothing. That's the one thing I strongly dislike about open source is that only hyperscalers really economically benefit fr…

> It's not like they can rug pull on the data or even the existing app binaries.

This.

I spend 6 months to export 100K notes from Evernote mostly because they intentionally throttle the exports to a limit and you can extract it only in their proprietary format that truncates some data.

Re: I built a faster Notion in Rust

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Post by echelon »

alabhyajindal wrote: post #37
echelon wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still happy to use it. It's not like they can rug pull on the data or even the existing app binaries. I'd really like to see the team get rewarded for their work, too. I'd be sad if it went 100% open and they didn't so much as draw a market salary from it. I think if it went open, they'd get nothing. That's the one thing I strongly dislike about open source is that only hyperscalers really economically benefit fr…

I used to be very against closed source products but changed my mind recently. One of the founders of Obsidian makes some great points here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-sourcing-of-obsidian/1515/1...

This is a great rebuttal.

99.9% of the internet is closed source and we don't ask for it to be opened. From our ISPs, to Google, to the hyperscalers.

If anything, I think we should be asking those things to be open. If we're only asking the little guys, the big guys with trillion dollar market caps skate by. This is exactly how they want it. Fewer gradients for small players to grow.

Re: I built a faster Notion in Rust

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Post by bomewish »

This looks like a tidy little out of the box fts system. I’d use it as a tantivy interface basically. And I’d pay for it if it had good and simple document ingestion and metadata search semantics. Not the intended use case really but this doesn’t exist.

Re: I built a faster Notion in Rust

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Post by blubber »

gman83 wrote: post #29
xanth wrote: post #21

This looks like it has great potential, but what I really want is an open source "notion" with a well considered plugin & schema model. I desperately want to sync back all my data into a single cohesive graph; notes, reading list, messages, exercise activity in a more compute friendly format than MD files.

AppFlowy ?

Isn't really (ie fully) open source, is it?
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