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When I see products like Evernotes, i see geeks like us as the non target market. So many of us will never pay a penny for such service. Here's a few, "I could
by didip 16y ago
When I see products like Evernotes, i see geeks like us as the non target market. So many of us will never pay a penny for such service.
Here's a few, "I could solve this in a weekend" solutions:
* Write notes with vim and archive them with git. If using github, you get website publishing for free.
* Write notes with nano and automatically upload to S3 using inotify (Python: http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net)
* Write notes with emacs and mail() it to your gmail account.
* Write notes for future reminder (+dates) with ed. Via cron, parse the dates using GNU date, and mail() yourself a reminder.
If we are the target market, so few of us are willing to pay for the service.
Just my 2 cents...
- dhoe 16y agoNone of these solutions allows me to scribble notes on my graphic tablet, OCR my lousy handwriting, and make it searchable on my phone.
- didip 16y agoBeyond MVP, with a couple of extra weekends: * Rudimentary search is solvable with OSS tools nowadays (Solr, Sphinx, Lucene). * OCR however, seems fun! I never pay attention much on character recognition software. I wonder how good is this project: http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/
- qq66 16y agoYou're unlike me in that you would spend a couple of extra weekends to save $5.
- julianz 16y agoEvernote's OCR ended up being a non-feature as far as I was concerned because you can only search within the OCR'd text, you can't extract it and do anything else.