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Emanote – Haskell-powered structured view of your plain-text notes

61 points by smartmic 4y ago

RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
One thing I would love to see is a comparison to the other Haskell powered tool - Pandoc. Pandoc is so versatile and supports turning plain text into so many many formats that it would be interesting to see where Emanote fits in.
- ratzupaltuff 4y ago
  +1
- sshine 4y ago
  It seems to me that Emanote is more like a (static or dynamic) site generator for generic content, like mdBook. So intended to have nice enough defaults, but not necessarily compete with Hugo for generating any kind of website. This is just a quick take, though.
- kimburgess 4y ago
  Not to detract from OP's tool, but Pandoc is an excellent and underused tool for this use case. After previously playing with the https://unifiedjs.com https://unifiedjs.com ecosystem extensively, I recently redid my personal site (https://simple.industries https://simple.industries) with a 80 line shell script that uses Pandoc instead: https://git.sr.ht/~kb/open-notes/tree/main/item/.build.sh https://git.sr.ht/~kb/open-notes/tree/main/item/.build.sh.
  - Brajeshwar 4y ago
    Thanks for this. I'm going to check this out and try it on my website. My site has become too heavy for Jekyll. I don't need to render it all the time as I write mostly in plain-text (Markdown) these days. I have Obsidian doing that for me and let Github/Cloudflare use Jekyll to publish. I was looking for a solution where I can render just a page or two when I want but continue to write on Obsidian. These days, I can walk outside, take few sips of tea while Jekyll renders a post locally.
    - kimburgess 4y ago
      That's a similar setup to me. Obsidian works beautifully for fast, efficient editing, local preview and creation. The plug-in ecosystem also lets that be customised to your individual needs. Similarly, Pandoc works amazingly well out of the box, but then let's you extend as required with filters in a way that just feels right.
- carterschonwald 4y ago
  Based on the docs it looks like it actually uses pandoc
ArchD 4y ago
Here's the github repo: https://github.com/EmaApps/emanote https://github.com/EmaApps/emanote
deafpolygon 4y ago
Having to pull in Nix and run that to use something like this is a big no, for me.
- oflor 4y ago
  You can always run Nix in Docker to build and run any software that uses it. Without Nix, however, I am forced to either install a bunch of bloat into my system such as Haskell compilers or libraries, or run Docker anyway.
packetlost 4y ago
If this was compatible with the format that Logseq uses, I'd be inclined to use it as a static-site publisher-tool for my Logseq graph. I maintained a nvim plugin for Emanote's predecessor, Neuron, for awhile. It's a very good personal wiki/knowledge management format, but the usability of Haskell's packaging and the somewhat painful switchover from Neuron -> Emanote lost me in the process.

61 points by smartmic 4y ago

One thing I would love to see is a comparison to the other Haskell powered tool - Pandoc. Pandoc is so versatile and supports turning plain text into so many many formats that it would be interesting to see where Emanote fits in.

ratzupaltuff 4y ago
+1
sshine 4y ago
It seems to me that Emanote is more like a (static or dynamic) site generator for generic content, like mdBook. So intended to have nice enough defaults, but not necessarily compete with Hugo for generating any kind of website. This is just a quick take, though.
kimburgess 4y ago
Not to detract from OP's tool, but Pandoc is an excellent and underused tool for this use case. After previously playing with the https://unifiedjs.com https://unifiedjs.com ecosystem extensively, I recently redid my personal site (https://simple.industries https://simple.industries) with a 80 line shell script that uses Pandoc instead: https://git.sr.ht/~kb/open-notes/tree/main/item/.build.sh https://git.sr.ht/~kb/open-notes/tree/main/item/.build.sh.
- Brajeshwar 4y ago
  Thanks for this. I'm going to check this out and try it on my website. My site has become too heavy for Jekyll. I don't need to render it all the time as I write mostly in plain-text (Markdown) these days. I have Obsidian doing that for me and let Github/Cloudflare use Jekyll to publish. I was looking for a solution where I can render just a page or two when I want but continue to write on Obsidian. These days, I can walk outside, take few sips of tea while Jekyll renders a post locally.
  - kimburgess 4y ago
    That's a similar setup to me. Obsidian works beautifully for fast, efficient editing, local preview and creation. The plug-in ecosystem also lets that be customised to your individual needs. Similarly, Pandoc works amazingly well out of the box, but then let's you extend as required with filters in a way that just feels right.
carterschonwald 4y ago
Based on the docs it looks like it actually uses pandoc

ArchD 4y ago

Here's the github repo: https://github.com/EmaApps/emanote https://github.com/EmaApps/emanote

deafpolygon 4y ago

Having to pull in Nix and run that to use something like this is a big no, for me.

oflor 4y ago
You can always run Nix in Docker to build and run any software that uses it. Without Nix, however, I am forced to either install a bunch of bloat into my system such as Haskell compilers or libraries, or run Docker anyway.

packetlost 4y ago

If this was compatible with the format that Logseq uses, I'd be inclined to use it as a static-site publisher-tool for my Logseq graph. I maintained a nvim plugin for Emanote's predecessor, Neuron, for awhile. It's a very good personal wiki/knowledge management format, but the usability of Haskell's packaging and the somewhat painful switchover from Neuron -> Emanote lost me in the process.