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Are there any good self hosted alternatives?

pestaa 13y ago
I use Dokuwiki, but any wiki would do. I love the fact it keeps static files on the server's drive which unison syncs both way to my hard drive -- I can edit on the web and see the changes in my vim, or edit in vim and see the formatted result on the web.
troymc 13y ago
Some alternatives, self-hosted and otherwise, are listed at http://alternativeto.net/software/evernote/ http://alternativeto.net/software/evernote/
pigeons 13y ago
Probably more important an issue than the resource hogginess and slowness of evernote, which has already been mentioned here, it seems self-hosted alternatives (I see someone mentioned WebDav) are very important. We used to have the luxury to think any notes we took were not interesting to third parties and couldn't be used against us or our contacts and our service providers might not be backdoor-ed. But we can't deny the facts any more. I suppose maybe the reason there isn't already a popular open source, maybe AGPL project for an evernote-like system (yes I know there is a OSS jambi/java client to use with evernotes proprietary servers) is because the tools already exist and the glue tying them all together with a friendly UI isn't as fun a challenge?
- girvo 13y ago
  OwnCloud had (don't know f they work with 5 yet) extensions that builds off DAV and let's you host your own stuff, as well as expose APIs for client apps. I'm hoping it takes off a bit more for that reason!
MrZongle2 13y ago
When I worked exclusively on Windows, ConnectedText (http://www.connectedtext.com http://www.connectedtext.com) was my favorite personal wiki app; it supports Python scripting, LaTeX, code highlighting, and inter-page linking. Unfortunately, I don't do a lot of Windows development anymore and wish I could find a decent cross-platform alternative. RedNotebook (http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/ http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/) is similar, but not as powerful as ConnectedText. For what it's worth, I also am a paying Evernote user. Love it, though I only use the web interface.
flarg 13y ago
I'm happy with ZIM Desktop Wiki (http://zim-wiki.org/ http://zim-wiki.org/) and you can sync it's text files via Dropbox - bit of a raw solution I guess because there's no Android client - but text files are easy to parse in lots of interesting ways (e.g. I grep tasks marked as @phone and Dropbox them to my cellphone)

I use Dokuwiki, but any wiki would do. I love the fact it keeps static files on the server's drive which unison syncs both way to my hard drive -- I can edit on the web and see the changes in my vim, or edit in vim and see the formatted result on the web.

troymc 13y ago

Some alternatives, self-hosted and otherwise, are listed at http://alternativeto.net/software/evernote/ http://alternativeto.net/software/evernote/

pigeons 13y ago

Probably more important an issue than the resource hogginess and slowness of evernote, which has already been mentioned here, it seems self-hosted alternatives (I see someone mentioned WebDav) are very important. We used to have the luxury to think any notes we took were not interesting to third parties and couldn't be used against us or our contacts and our service providers might not be backdoor-ed. But we can't deny the facts any more. I suppose maybe the reason there isn't already a popular open source, maybe AGPL project for an evernote-like system (yes I know there is a OSS jambi/java client to use with evernotes proprietary servers) is because the tools already exist and the glue tying them all together with a friendly UI isn't as fun a challenge?

girvo 13y ago
OwnCloud had (don't know f they work with 5 yet) extensions that builds off DAV and let's you host your own stuff, as well as expose APIs for client apps. I'm hoping it takes off a bit more for that reason!

MrZongle2 13y ago

When I worked exclusively on Windows, ConnectedText (http://www.connectedtext.com http://www.connectedtext.com) was my favorite personal wiki app; it supports Python scripting, LaTeX, code highlighting, and inter-page linking. Unfortunately, I don't do a lot of Windows development anymore and wish I could find a decent cross-platform alternative. RedNotebook (http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/ http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/) is similar, but not as powerful as ConnectedText. For what it's worth, I also am a paying Evernote user. Love it, though I only use the web interface.

flarg 13y ago

I'm happy with ZIM Desktop Wiki (http://zim-wiki.org/ http://zim-wiki.org/) and you can sync it's text files via Dropbox - bit of a raw solution I guess because there's no Android client - but text files are easy to parse in lots of interesting ways (e.g. I grep tasks marked as @phone and Dropbox them to my cellphone)