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Hi Friends, I'm the author of GitNoter. I'd love to answer any questions you have

by vivekweb2013 4y ago

joe8756438 4y ago
Looks really cool, congrats on the launch! How would multiplayer notes work? Assuming everyone has access to the repo.
- vivekweb2013 4y ago
  Thanks. Any number of users can use GitNoter simultaneously on any number of devices against a single repo as long as all of them has write access to the repository.
pantulis 4y ago
I understand that this allows you to manage collections of notes in Markdown format backed up to a Git repository. This is nice and I consider this to be useful, but I would suggest not to position it against Evernote but against knowledge management tools for teams (internal wikis, confluences of the world, etc)
- vivekweb2013 4y ago
  yeah I agree. This is really the knowledge management tool
  - lolive 4y ago
    When I presented Obsidian to a friend, and he told me that it was just a note-taking app, I was quite shocked by [what I consider to be] such a lack of consideration. Because I really use Obsidian as my second memory [marketing definitely worked on me, it seems :)]. Anyway... I have never used EverNote (==note taking?). And, as you have read, I am reaaaaally in Obsidian (==knowledge management?). Can any of you elaborate of the conceptual difference between both?
    - pantulis 4y ago
      Evernote positioned itself as a "second brain", but turned out to become an awesome Digital Vault. You can throw anything at it and Evernote will happily ingest it. You have blazingly fast search backed by Evernote cloud services, and even have some note linking capabilities but they are rudimentary when compared to a fully fledged PKM like Obsidian, DEVONthink, or others. These newer PKM tools allow you to reflect and reason on the content you have and massage it in ways that surface new ideas and allow you to follow unexpected relationships (hence being a true second brain). This is much more harder to achieve with Evernote. Both are valid and powerful tools but the use cases are different, maybe just because the definition of "second brain" has moved since Evernote was conceptualized on the 2000s.
    - adfm 4y ago
      If you like Obsidian, check out Logseq. Both handle plain-text Markdown, so you can use them interchangeably. Logseq also handles Org-mode files, if that’s your thing. Everything is local, but works well with cloud storage. There’s also an iOS app. It’s worth a look. (No affiliation) https://logseq.com/ https://logseq.com/
- SamBam 4y ago
  Agree: Knowledge management, not EverNote at all. EverNote is all about dropping random files into it (images, pdfs, etc). It's where you store your bills, your receipts, your photos of wine labels. It also has a very handy web clipper extension to save web pages (whole pages, sections, or bookmarks). I'm sure plenty of people use it differently, but I'm also quite confident (from how I've seen others describe it) that one its primary use-cases is as a big shoebox to dump everything into. You then search for that stuff through titles, tags and OCR in photos. I use it in a fundamentally different way from Obsidian.
eole666 4y ago
Nice project. Is there any plan to handle gitlab login/other kind of login as well ? For now it seems to work only with github.
- vivekweb2013 4y ago
  Yes. The idea is to support as many git services as possible. Which includes GitLab, Gitea, Bitbucket and more For the initial POC I have integrated it with GitHub
glook 4y ago
You don't have to compare this to Evernote. I really like what you have done so far. The preview of the MD is fantastic. Feels hard enough for me to find just that! I love the use of GitHub. I'm in!
- vivekweb2013 4y ago
  Thanks so much for the kind words
mkl 4y ago
Hi, does this support maths notation via MathJax or Katex?
- vivekweb2013 4y ago
  Not currently, But I've noted this. I'll see if this can be supported
  - mkl 4y ago
    Cool. If you add it, please use the  and \[ \] delimiters rather than $ $ and $$ $$. The former plays better with automated processing and currencies.
    - vivekweb2013 4y ago
      yeah sure
RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Could you support markdown headers like these: --- date: 2021-09-14T22:51:33+02:00 modified: 2021-09-29T15:40:38+02:00 --- Then it would interoperate with GitJournal perfectly I think :).
- vivekweb2013 4y ago
  Sure. I'll implement this feature
bachmeier 4y ago
Just a few suggestions (some overlap with other comments). If you really want it to be an Evernote competitor, it should have: Image/file upload Web clipper (singlefile is great) OCR (Tesseract has done what I need, not sure how that compares to Evernote) Basic task management Customizable dashboard Tagging and excellent search (these are Evernote's bread and butter) WYSIWYG editing Templates Integrations And it would be really nice if it could do math, which would be an advantage over Evernote. It's possible some of this is already implemented; I only gave your page a short look.
- vivekweb2013 4y ago
  Noted. thanks
- dublin 4y ago
  TiddlyWiki has hit most of these capabilities for many years now, and is nearly unique in wrapping up all the code and data in a single unit that can be run in any regular browser, from either local storage or a remote server or storage. (It does need a killer web clipper, though...) TiddlyWiki really is one of the cleverest apps I've ever run across, but I'm not much of a JS programmer, so it's got a bit of a learning curve if you want to hack on it. It's pretty easy to use right out of the box if you don't want to hack on it, though, and I'm giving some thought to moving most of the data I've collected in OneNote to TiddlyWiki to escape Microsoft's clutches after I've finally disentangled myself from Google... One thing I love is that TiddlyWikis I built 20 years ago (granted, they were simpler then) are still perfectly usable today. My perfect data keeper might be something of a mashup between TiddlyWiki and a JuPyteR notebook.
  - bachmeier 4y ago
    Another nice thing about TiddlyWiki is that you don't actually have to be a JS programmer to extend it. I run a local CGI server and that allows me to make all kinds of customizations in the language I want (most languages support local CGI servers). The querying capabilities of TiddlyWiki make it a nice database.
gimme_treefiddy 4y ago
Definitely will give a go by deploying privately. Does it support markdown extensions, like GitHub flavored markdown or something.
- vivekweb2013 4y ago
  yes it supports github flavoured markdown
yurikoif 4y ago
It looks clean and super good! Considering moving from Obsidian as it gets more refined. A few more features IMO would be nice: (fuzzy) search; task management; math formula support; or just expose API for such development would be great as well.
- vivekweb2013 4y ago
  thanks. I've noted the feedback. I'll work on implementing these features.
BrandoElFollito 4y ago
Do you have a docker image for self-hosting?
- vivekweb2013 4y ago
  Yes the application is containerised also I have created the helm charts for deployment on kubernetes cluster - https://github.com/git-noter/gitnoter-charts https://github.com/git-noter/gitnoter-charts
mrichman 4y ago
Why should I use your tool and not Joplin?
- vivekweb2013 4y ago
  Because it does not require desktop client. It stores the notes in git repository so you have access to all the revisions which is very useful in case you want to revert any changes
wharfjumper 4y ago
Congrats. I think there's an opportunity for a markdown-based Confluence competitor. Something that can be used by non technical people. You might want to consider that use-case/positioning rather than personal note-taking. Major missing feature for the average user I think would be easy image/binary upload, embedding and preview. By leveraging Github (and Gitlab please) auth it makes this usable by enterprise which is smart I think.
- vivekweb2013 4y ago
  thanks so much for the feedback. I'm working on providing the image upload functionality. Markdown preview is currently available with the preview button in the right corner of markdown editor.
Abishek_Muthian 4y ago
Congratulations on the launch! Others have mentioned about Search, In case you choose to implement it then I'd suggest a special attention towards code search. I presume formatting code with markdown is a non-issue, So implementing first class code search capabilities would be real differentiator among other notes applications and could likely fill a need-gap.
baytowner 4y ago
Does this support shared note-taking - I tried fast forwarding through the video tour (please consider making it shorter) and it mentioned changing repositories so in that same line of thought - is multi-repository note taking possible, each shared with different people?

Hi Friends, I'm the author of GitNoter. I'd love to answer any questions you have

joe8756438 4y ago

Looks really cool, congrats on the launch! How would multiplayer notes work? Assuming everyone has access to the repo.

vivekweb2013 4y ago
Thanks. Any number of users can use GitNoter simultaneously on any number of devices against a single repo as long as all of them has write access to the repository.

pantulis 4y ago

I understand that this allows you to manage collections of notes in Markdown format backed up to a Git repository. This is nice and I consider this to be useful, but I would suggest not to position it against Evernote but against knowledge management tools for teams (internal wikis, confluences of the world, etc)

vivekweb2013 4y ago
yeah I agree. This is really the knowledge management tool
- lolive 4y ago
  When I presented Obsidian to a friend, and he told me that it was just a note-taking app, I was quite shocked by [what I consider to be] such a lack of consideration. Because I really use Obsidian as my second memory [marketing definitely worked on me, it seems :)]. Anyway... I have never used EverNote (==note taking?). And, as you have read, I am reaaaaally in Obsidian (==knowledge management?). Can any of you elaborate of the conceptual difference between both?
  - pantulis 4y ago
    Evernote positioned itself as a "second brain", but turned out to become an awesome Digital Vault. You can throw anything at it and Evernote will happily ingest it. You have blazingly fast search backed by Evernote cloud services, and even have some note linking capabilities but they are rudimentary when compared to a fully fledged PKM like Obsidian, DEVONthink, or others. These newer PKM tools allow you to reflect and reason on the content you have and massage it in ways that surface new ideas and allow you to follow unexpected relationships (hence being a true second brain). This is much more harder to achieve with Evernote. Both are valid and powerful tools but the use cases are different, maybe just because the definition of "second brain" has moved since Evernote was conceptualized on the 2000s.
  - adfm 4y ago
    If you like Obsidian, check out Logseq. Both handle plain-text Markdown, so you can use them interchangeably. Logseq also handles Org-mode files, if that’s your thing. Everything is local, but works well with cloud storage. There’s also an iOS app. It’s worth a look. (No affiliation) https://logseq.com/ https://logseq.com/
SamBam 4y ago
Agree: Knowledge management, not EverNote at all. EverNote is all about dropping random files into it (images, pdfs, etc). It's where you store your bills, your receipts, your photos of wine labels. It also has a very handy web clipper extension to save web pages (whole pages, sections, or bookmarks). I'm sure plenty of people use it differently, but I'm also quite confident (from how I've seen others describe it) that one its primary use-cases is as a big shoebox to dump everything into. You then search for that stuff through titles, tags and OCR in photos. I use it in a fundamentally different way from Obsidian.

eole666 4y ago

Nice project. Is there any plan to handle gitlab login/other kind of login as well ? For now it seems to work only with github.

vivekweb2013 4y ago
Yes. The idea is to support as many git services as possible. Which includes GitLab, Gitea, Bitbucket and more For the initial POC I have integrated it with GitHub

glook 4y ago

You don't have to compare this to Evernote. I really like what you have done so far. The preview of the MD is fantastic. Feels hard enough for me to find just that! I love the use of GitHub. I'm in!

vivekweb2013 4y ago
Thanks so much for the kind words

mkl 4y ago

Hi, does this support maths notation via MathJax or Katex?

vivekweb2013 4y ago
Not currently, But I've noted this. I'll see if this can be supported
- mkl 4y ago
  Cool. If you add it, please use the  and \[ \] delimiters rather than $ $ and $$ $$. The former plays better with automated processing and currencies.
  - vivekweb2013 4y ago
    yeah sure

RupertEisenhart 4y ago

Could you support markdown headers like these: --- date: 2021-09-14T22:51:33+02:00 modified: 2021-09-29T15:40:38+02:00 --- Then it would interoperate with GitJournal perfectly I think :).

vivekweb2013 4y ago
Sure. I'll implement this feature

bachmeier 4y ago

Just a few suggestions (some overlap with other comments). If you really want it to be an Evernote competitor, it should have: Image/file upload Web clipper (singlefile is great) OCR (Tesseract has done what I need, not sure how that compares to Evernote) Basic task management Customizable dashboard Tagging and excellent search (these are Evernote's bread and butter) WYSIWYG editing Templates Integrations And it would be really nice if it could do math, which would be an advantage over Evernote. It's possible some of this is already implemented; I only gave your page a short look.

vivekweb2013 4y ago
Noted. thanks
dublin 4y ago
TiddlyWiki has hit most of these capabilities for many years now, and is nearly unique in wrapping up all the code and data in a single unit that can be run in any regular browser, from either local storage or a remote server or storage. (It does need a killer web clipper, though...) TiddlyWiki really is one of the cleverest apps I've ever run across, but I'm not much of a JS programmer, so it's got a bit of a learning curve if you want to hack on it. It's pretty easy to use right out of the box if you don't want to hack on it, though, and I'm giving some thought to moving most of the data I've collected in OneNote to TiddlyWiki to escape Microsoft's clutches after I've finally disentangled myself from Google... One thing I love is that TiddlyWikis I built 20 years ago (granted, they were simpler then) are still perfectly usable today. My perfect data keeper might be something of a mashup between TiddlyWiki and a JuPyteR notebook.
- bachmeier 4y ago
  Another nice thing about TiddlyWiki is that you don't actually have to be a JS programmer to extend it. I run a local CGI server and that allows me to make all kinds of customizations in the language I want (most languages support local CGI servers). The querying capabilities of TiddlyWiki make it a nice database.

gimme_treefiddy 4y ago

Definitely will give a go by deploying privately. Does it support markdown extensions, like GitHub flavored markdown or something.

vivekweb2013 4y ago
yes it supports github flavoured markdown

yurikoif 4y ago

It looks clean and super good! Considering moving from Obsidian as it gets more refined. A few more features IMO would be nice: (fuzzy) search; task management; math formula support; or just expose API for such development would be great as well.

vivekweb2013 4y ago
thanks. I've noted the feedback. I'll work on implementing these features.

BrandoElFollito 4y ago

Do you have a docker image for self-hosting?

vivekweb2013 4y ago
Yes the application is containerised also I have created the helm charts for deployment on kubernetes cluster - https://github.com/git-noter/gitnoter-charts https://github.com/git-noter/gitnoter-charts

mrichman 4y ago

Why should I use your tool and not Joplin?

vivekweb2013 4y ago
Because it does not require desktop client. It stores the notes in git repository so you have access to all the revisions which is very useful in case you want to revert any changes

wharfjumper 4y ago

Congrats. I think there's an opportunity for a markdown-based Confluence competitor. Something that can be used by non technical people. You might want to consider that use-case/positioning rather than personal note-taking. Major missing feature for the average user I think would be easy image/binary upload, embedding and preview. By leveraging Github (and Gitlab please) auth it makes this usable by enterprise which is smart I think.

vivekweb2013 4y ago
thanks so much for the feedback. I'm working on providing the image upload functionality. Markdown preview is currently available with the preview button in the right corner of markdown editor.

Abishek_Muthian 4y ago

Congratulations on the launch! Others have mentioned about Search, In case you choose to implement it then I'd suggest a special attention towards code search. I presume formatting code with markdown is a non-issue, So implementing first class code search capabilities would be real differentiator among other notes applications and could likely fill a need-gap.

baytowner 4y ago

Does this support shared note-taking - I tried fast forwarding through the video tour (please consider making it shorter) and it mentioned changing repositories so in that same line of thought - is multi-repository note taking possible, each shared with different people?