silicon VS Android-Password-S

It's nowhere near as featureful as Outline, but I wrote my own Markdown knowledge base thingy in Python. It is web-based and geared toward single-user (or _very_ small team use) but it's Apache licensed and has no commercial tie-ins. Super easy to deploy as long as you know how to layer some rudimentary authentication on top of it.

https://github.com/cu/silicon

I wrote my own note-keeping system[0] and very much wanted all of the notes to just be markdown files on the disk. It turns out that there are trade-offs to this. If you want plaintext markdown files on disk AND want fancy features like file versioning, a search index, tags, etc then you need to store all of that metadata somewhere and you're down writing a half-assed implementation of a DBMS.

Now, you can certainly bite the bullet and full-ass the implementation like Dokuwiki did, but that is really quite a lot of work and effort against simply `import sqlite` and writing a couple of tutorial-level queries. And it turns out that exporting all of your documents to plaintext, if you should so choose, is a one-line command away.

[0]: https://github.com/cu/silicon

I wrote my own. It's a web app but one of its features is that it doesn't have many features. https://github.com/cu/silicon

It doesn't have folders and tags, but if that's not a deal-breaker you could check out https://github.com/cu/silicon

Not sure which features you're looking for, but you could try this thing I wrote: https://github.com/cu/silicon

3. Very occasionally, I will click on a link on one page to go to another page.

And what would be the point of categorizing all my notes? Every single time I go to my wiki, it's to either write down something specific or search for something specific. I have _never_ wanted to see a list of all of my pages about programming languages for example. Or every page tagged "bash".

I think as software engineers building our own tools, we sometimes build features because they sound interesting and we know how to do it, or because the project doesn't "feel" complete without them. Not because we'll ever actually use them.

When I _do_ want to break up a large subject (e.g. Python) into multiple pages, I just create one "Python" page and link to all of the others from that page.

The one concession I've made to categorization/organization is that I've added a feature where two pages can be marked as "related" to one another. This is mainly to avoid having a manually-edited "See Also" section on pages that touch upon topics covered on other pages.

[1]: https://github.com/cu/silicon

There is no "database", it's just a bunch of GPG encrypted files synced with git.

For Android there is https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S....

For Windows the only thing (Pass4Win) i found is unmaintained.

See https://www.passwordstore.org/#other

These are the types of applications that I really love. It stores the data in a cloud service that already has enough free capacity for say a notes app. It's like how we can store pass(1) passwords on a git repository (Sync it with Github) and use that as the destination of Android Password Store[1], and you have a easy password manager.

[1] https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S...

Since I store most of my passwords using https://www.passwordstore.org/, I have used mobile with https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S.... I'm happy enough with it. Sucks for getting anything into consoles, for obvious reasons.

That's the exact setup I use on my main phone. There's also https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S..., which I use on throwaway phones.

I moved to pass cli (on i3 with a simple rofi selector) and the FOSS android app https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S... synced over Syncthing and I never look back

For encrypted secrets in git I'd suggest looking at sops and password store:

https://github.com/mozilla/sops

https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S...

Both are extremely useful secrets oriented git tools with support for things like PGP encryption. Both will encrypt with multiple keys too, making sharing relatively easy. The android pass app even manages SSH keys for pushing and pulling. There may be good inspiration in those repos, or even code you can borrow.

Also, thanks so much for making this: it is elegant and lovely. Keep it up!

In addition, plasma-pass, qtpass, android password store (https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S...) are nice as well. Throw in a NFC Yubikey and OpenKeychain on android, then you can lock them with hardware keys. Since pass uses git, syncing can be done to a private repo on your home network or even just a cheap usb stick.

Oh dammit. I have stopped using Gopass and started rewriting pass just for that reason - missing AGE encryption. At least I have learned something new and I feel better while my fuzzy finder UI instead of their TUI. However, big kudos to Gopass team for awesome work and really useful tool.

Before I start working on next project... Do you recognize any mobile app, which could replace PasswordStore.app for Android but with AGE support?

[0]: https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S...

I'm thinking about adding encrypted file support to my pass wrapper, p, but I've not really found a good argument to support breaking mobile apps (such as https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S...).

You'd have to manually look up the entries in a lookup table to resolve obfuscated names back to readable names... Or upstream support for whatever format is devised. I dunno.