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Open Source alternative to Evernote

20 points by bill_bkr 12y ago

silon3 12y ago
Page contains chinese/strange unicode chars for me.
- psykovsky 12y ago
  You have javascript disabled?
  - silon3 12y ago
    Nope, the thing seems to work.
    - silon3 12y ago
      I think it's because I have "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above" Firefox feature disabled.
benoliver999 12y ago
I've been looking for something like this of late. I like Evernote, but I don't like keeping such a valuable treasure trove of notes on another server. I looked at Laverna, also turtlr, and a few others. Eventually I settled on Tiddlywiki - http://tiddlywiki.com/ http://tiddlywiki.com/ It's simple, runs well on a server, and is decent in a mobile web browser. What's missing is web clippings, which I love doing. For that I use 'scrapbook plus' in Firefox.
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corobo 12y ago
> The application stores all your notes in your browser local storage spaces such as indexedDB or localStorage, which is good for security reasons, because only you have access to them. Unfortunately the reason I use Evernote is to quickly document then later share idea docs with the other members of our team - Any chance of a future server-side storage?
DCKing 12y ago
I'm not a big fan of Evernote, but seeing Evernote consists of a whole suite of various collaborative note taking/memory helper products (not just Evernote, but Skitch, Penultimate and others really provide added value), with native app clients on nearly all platforms, this is not an alternative to Evernote. Evernote can be used as a simple note taking utility, but it is in fact much more than that. This is not to say that this doesn't look a nice note taking app. It really does. I'm just pointing out that "being an alternative to Evernote" entails a lot more than being a nice-to-use web app. It's like claiming you have open source alternative to Photoshop - and after clicking the link you end up looking at GNU Paint instead of GIMP.
winkbrace 12y ago
I like my notes to be synchronised and even though I connected it to dropbox, my phone and my computer didn't see eachother's notes.
usegists 12y ago
https://gist.github.com https://gist.github.com works reasonably well for me
ilian 12y ago
You can take a look on Tagspaces - http://tagspaces.org http://tagspaces.org which is also open source. It is not using a database and saves all the needed information directly on your file system. In my experiences this feature makes my notes extremely portable across my mobile, my laptop and my tablet...

20 points by bill_bkr 12y ago

silon3 12y ago

Page contains chinese/strange unicode chars for me.

psykovsky 12y ago
You have javascript disabled?
- silon3 12y ago
  Nope, the thing seems to work.
  - silon3 12y ago
    I think it's because I have "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above" Firefox feature disabled.

benoliver999 12y ago

I've been looking for something like this of late. I like Evernote, but I don't like keeping such a valuable treasure trove of notes on another server. I looked at Laverna, also turtlr, and a few others. Eventually I settled on Tiddlywiki - http://tiddlywiki.com/ http://tiddlywiki.com/ It's simple, runs well on a server, and is decent in a mobile web browser. What's missing is web clippings, which I love doing. For that I use 'scrapbook plus' in Firefox.

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corobo 12y ago

> The application stores all your notes in your browser local storage spaces such as indexedDB or localStorage, which is good for security reasons, because only you have access to them. Unfortunately the reason I use Evernote is to quickly document then later share idea docs with the other members of our team - Any chance of a future server-side storage?

DCKing 12y ago

I'm not a big fan of Evernote, but seeing Evernote consists of a whole suite of various collaborative note taking/memory helper products (not just Evernote, but Skitch, Penultimate and others really provide added value), with native app clients on nearly all platforms, this is not an alternative to Evernote. Evernote can be used as a simple note taking utility, but it is in fact much more than that. This is not to say that this doesn't look a nice note taking app. It really does. I'm just pointing out that "being an alternative to Evernote" entails a lot more than being a nice-to-use web app. It's like claiming you have open source alternative to Photoshop - and after clicking the link you end up looking at GNU Paint instead of GIMP.

winkbrace 12y ago

I like my notes to be synchronised and even though I connected it to dropbox, my phone and my computer didn't see eachother's notes.

usegists 12y ago

https://gist.github.com https://gist.github.com works reasonably well for me

ilian 12y ago

You can take a look on Tagspaces - http://tagspaces.org http://tagspaces.org which is also open source. It is not using a database and saves all the needed information directly on your file system. In my experiences this feature makes my notes extremely portable across my mobile, my laptop and my tablet...