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Re: Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative

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Post by nissehulth »

rayiner wrote: post #79
drvortex wrote: post #14

As other's have mentioned, the WebUI is a major no-no. Evernote's strength lies in its Desktop application and very useful clipping service. The fact that Evernote uses its own cloud storage instead of say an encrypted folder in Google Drive/Dropbox etc is a negative of the service. Sync is required but implemented in the most undesirable way in Evernote currently. Paperwork is promising, but seems to have replicated…

> The fact that Evernote uses its own cloud storage instead of say an encrypted folder in Google Drive/Dropbox etc is a negative of the service. I hate this trend towards supporting only one or another kind of proprietary service.[1] What is wrong with WebDAV? That way, you can use a cloud hosting provider, or self-host. [1] I'm looking at you Scrivener.

I believe the idea was that the app would simply save data on a local drive that could then be synced with your favorite technology or service.

Re: Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative

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Post by freehunter »

rayiner wrote: post #79
drvortex wrote: post #14

As other's have mentioned, the WebUI is a major no-no. Evernote's strength lies in its Desktop application and very useful clipping service. The fact that Evernote uses its own cloud storage instead of say an encrypted folder in Google Drive/Dropbox etc is a negative of the service. Sync is required but implemented in the most undesirable way in Evernote currently. Paperwork is promising, but seems to have replicated…

> The fact that Evernote uses its own cloud storage instead of say an encrypted folder in Google Drive/Dropbox etc is a negative of the service. I hate this trend towards supporting only one or another kind of proprietary service.[1] What is wrong with WebDAV? That way, you can use a cloud hosting provider, or self-host. [1] I'm looking at you Scrivener.

And another proprietary service ("make it an offline Chrome app"). It's the web, why would I want to be locked to a single vendor?

Re: Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative

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Post by joshlemer »

PythonicAlpha wrote: post #56

I am not familiar with Evernote and the other tools -- but when I try to test Paperwork, I got stuck: How can I create a note? When I press "New note" simply nothing happens. I can take no notes, add no documents -- nothing. Just two big white areas that are plainly saying and doing nothing. Ok, I found the problem: When I use "German" interface language, it does not work. With English interface language there comes…

You should submit an issue on Github :)

Re: Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative

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Post by donatj »

TuringTest wrote: post #77
Maro wrote: post #47

There's also Simplenote. I can recommend it. It's pretty cool, it's just plaintext, and it just works. I migrated to it after I got sick of the formatting in Evernote getting screwed up and sync issues causing data loss.

Simplenote is not open source.

But the API is entirely open, so you can use an open source client.

Re: Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative

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Post by myliverhatesme »

Nice! I've been using Evernote for a while now. I have a MacBook Pro I use for work, but I use Linux at home. After using both the web client (because that's my only option in Linux except Wine) and the native OS X client, it's clear that the Web Client is lacking.

I'm looking forward to an open source alternative.

Re: Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative

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Post by myliverhatesme »

Sweet. I've been using Evernote for a while now. I have a MacBook Pro I use for work, but I use Linux at home. After using both the web client (because that's my only option in Linux except Wine) and the native OS X client, it's clear that the Web Client is lacking. It seems Evernote has no interest in writing a native Linux app. This is the sole reason I haven't updated to Premium.

Edit: Nevermind, it's a PHP app :( I was looking forward to something I would actually want to contribute to. Not to be immature, but I can't f*cking stand PHP. Maybe coming up with some sort of open note protocol would be a good idea.

Re: Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative

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Post by hobo_mark »

pgrote wrote: post #71
jamesu wrote: post #59

I ditched evernote after I lost my data twice. Sadly I have yet to find a solution which I feel would be an adequate replacement. Even Paperwork is far from it. Either the proposed alternative is even buggier than evernote, or it doesn't implement the full featureset I need. I kind of feel that for me the pinnacle of Evernote was version 3. The lure of being able to dump any information into it and sort it later was…

How did you lose your data twice?

It "ate" some of my notes too a few times, hell if I know how. I'm never going back.

Re: Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative

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Post by takluyver »

laurent123456 wrote: post #18
drvortex wrote: post #14

As other's have mentioned, the WebUI is a major no-no. Evernote's strength lies in its Desktop application and very useful clipping service. The fact that Evernote uses its own cloud storage instead of say an encrypted folder in Google Drive/Dropbox etc is a negative of the service. Sync is required but implemented in the most undesirable way in Evernote currently. Paperwork is promising, but seems to have replicated…

That makes me think, has anyone tried to build a note taking app based on git? A tricky part for this kind of app is networking and synchronization of notes, and that's all taken care of by git. The "only" thing left would be to implement the mobile and desktop front ends.

Magpie, which I think was on HN a few weeks back, is an attempt at precisely this.

https://magpie-notes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Re: Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative

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Post by Poiesis »

rayiner wrote: post #79
drvortex wrote: post #14

As other's have mentioned, the WebUI is a major no-no. Evernote's strength lies in its Desktop application and very useful clipping service. The fact that Evernote uses its own cloud storage instead of say an encrypted folder in Google Drive/Dropbox etc is a negative of the service. Sync is required but implemented in the most undesirable way in Evernote currently. Paperwork is promising, but seems to have replicated…

> The fact that Evernote uses its own cloud storage instead of say an encrypted folder in Google Drive/Dropbox etc is a negative of the service. I hate this trend towards supporting only one or another kind of proprietary service.[1] What is wrong with WebDAV? That way, you can use a cloud hosting provider, or self-host. [1] I'm looking at you Scrivener.

Lots of things are wrong with WebDAV, summed up as "many clients with different implementations/interpretations of the spec."

Related: Are there any decent WebDAV servers out there? I don't see any recent development being done on any.

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