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AppFlowy | Joplin | |
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97 | 771 | |
48,392 | 42,689 | |
3.5% | - | |
9.9 | 9.9 | |
6 days ago | 6 days ago | |
Dart | TypeScript | |
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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AppFlowy
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๐๏ธ5 beautiful open-source web apps to learn from and get inspired ๐โโ๏ธ๐ก
๐พ Source code: https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy ๐ Size: M ๐ ๏ธ Stack: Flutter, Rust
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9 years of Apple text editor solo dev
You can use Rust with QML[1].
QML is actually pretty amazing. I've been building my block editor[2] view entirely in QML while the model is in C++. This separation of logic and presentation works great. And yes, there are some crashes sometimes (that I find quite easy to debug thanks to the built-in debugger), but take for example a similar app that's built with Rust and Dart[3], in my testing there were still memory leaks that caused my computer to hang. It's better to know you have a bug than for it to be hidden from you.
I agree with parent commenter, saying these cross-platform frameworks will end up supporting the least common denominator set of features. But I found with external open source libraries, the community is catching up very fast. For example, you want the awesome translucency macOS apps have for your Qt app? Here you go[4]. Many such cases. It's also pretty straightforward to add your own custom OS-dependent code, especially so, if someone already open sourced his approach. I recently wanted to move the traffic light buttons on macOS for my app, but couldn't figure the Objective-C code for that. I ended up looking at either Tauri or Electron source code and found my answer.
[1] https://github.com/woboq/qmetaobject-rs
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Quasi Self-Hosted Quasi Open Source Notion Alternatives from Asia (SiYuan, Affine, AppFlowy)
AppFlowy - GPL Licensed - their unique selling point is that they're farther along than SiYuan or Affine on their database table functionality. Both Siyuan and Affine have database tables for project management but Appflowy's solution is solid. https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy
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v0.3.0 is out
Download from https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/releases/tag/0.3.0
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Tested the Impeller update for macOS in #flutter 3.13! See the performance improvement
Just enabled it for AppFlowy macOS. https://docs.flutter.dev/perf/impeller#macos
- Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernoteโs remaining staff has been laid off
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I created a versus list for note taking apps (last tab). What do you guys think? Did I miss anything?
AppFlowy has doesn't have links to pages, but they're working on it, and "This feature will be expanded to support Mention a block in the future." (https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/issues/2196)
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BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
It seems like there's a lot of recent interest and effort in open-source or self-hosted Notion-like/markdown-with-widgets applications and platforms. AppFlowy (https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy) comes to mind; I attended one of their monthly "town hall" meetings a few months back, and looks like they're rapidly increasing in popularity. I think there was another similar project like this on HN front page last week, IIRC.
This makes me happy, because I switched to Obsidian primarily for local-first file storage in a platform-agnostic format. I've learned to love many things about Obsidian and am writing a few plugins myself, but there are still several Notion-esq functionalities I wish I had, and I find myself handing off between Obsidian and other webapps for certain effort, like team project management.
I used to get far more excited to explore new projects like BlockSuite, and I really appreciate their documentation, but I find it hard to justify allocating time to reviewing and trying out new tools when I still have much more improve on with my Obsidian usage; this is especially true of newer projects where I'm unsure of their shelf life.
To assuage my internal conflict I remind myself that I think plaintext is fundamentally the right choice for much knowledge collection, and I'm proud to say that if the internet shut down, I'd retain a significant growing fraction of my personal data.
- I'm making a GlowUI text editor to get back into coding
- Will Notion ever get an adaptive icon on Android?
Joplin
- Ask HN: What is your approach for managing personal digital assets?
- Joplin is an open source note-taking app
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My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file
I've had great success with using Joplin for this, with Syncthing as a sync backend. Works well across OSes; I use it on Linux, macOS, Windows and Android.
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Why I Like Obsidian
The tools to manipulate SQL aren't that bad, no.
But rather than having a self explanatory markdown & flat file, now I have to start learning about the schema & making specific tools (in my preferred language) for manipulating Joplin's schema.
Suddenly I'm digging through 20 different technic specs to decode what data is where, how it works, and what I can do to it. Want to edit history? This is the best help you'll get, pray it's adequately technical to expedite you to your purpose: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/readme/dev/spec...
As I began with, I struggle to imagine anything that generates anywhere near as much user agency as flat files and markdown. Having boring common data & systems lets me apply portable skills I already have, rather than having to skill up in some particular product's own ecosystem.
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IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired
Joplin is a good open source option too, feels more like the original Evernote in terms of UI/UX https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/
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Ask HN: What do you use for note-taking or as knowledge base?
Joplin, an open source, extendable, Markdown-based hierarchical note-taking app: https://joplinapp.org/
It lets you choose a synchronization backend, offers applications for every major desktop and mobile OS (also has a terminal version). You can create notebooks and subnotebooks to organize your notes. You can also add tags for better search experience. I created notebooks for specific domains (work-related, home improvement, etc.) and also keep a "temp" for quick notes and W.I.P. snippets.
Its only con that it uses Electron on desktop which causes relatively slow start of the application.
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Joplin VS Einwurf - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 20 Dec 2023
- PSA to Evernote Free users: 2 similar FREE apps to migrate to (I hope this post can end these questions so we can leave this sub's users in peace!)
- Evernote alternatives?
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Evernote Pre Mortem
done
What are some alternatives?
focalboard - Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.
Trilium Notes - Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
Outline - The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.
obsidian - GraphQL, built for Deno - a native GraphQL caching client and server module
logseq - A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.
notesnook - A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.
AFFiNE - There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ษโfain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.
Boostnote - This repository is outdated and new Boost Note app is available! We've launched a new Boost Note app which supports real-time collaborative writing. https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote-App
obsidian-releases - Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.
affine-client - client for https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE
QOwnNotes - QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.