notabase VS Reminiscence

https://notabase.io - a note-taking app for networked thinking.

It supports page stacking, linked references, block references, a graph view, and all that good stuff. Think of it as similar to Roam Research / Obsidian.

It's also open source so you can self-host it. Here's the code: https://github.com/churichard/notabase

I'm hoping to add support for shareable links soon. Open to other ideas or feedback!

you can check out this page https://alternativeto.net/software/joplin/?platform=online but the best I could find are - https://www.taskade.com/ https://standardnotes.com/ https://notesnook.com/ https://bundlednotes.com/ https://diaroapp.com/ https://notabase.io/ https://boostnote.io/ etc.

When evaluating rich text editors for the note-taking app I started about a year ago (https://notabase.io), I ended up going with Slate because of its flexible schema and customizable plugin architecture.

I sort of regret that choice now. I ran into a lot of bugs when integrating it which I had to manually work around; issues go months without being addressed; and there still isn't good cross-platform support, especially for Android. With a more active contributor base, Slate could be a fantastic library, but I get the feeling that it's in maintenance mode now, with not many major changes in the past year and a v1.0 still far in the future.

Tiptap looks like it might be a good choice now, but I find it off-putting that I can't insert links in the demo editor on Tiptap's website (https://tiptap.dev), especially for my use case (a note-taking app whose core concept revolves around links).

I'm working on an open source note-taking app called Notabase [1]. It's built primarily for my use - I just never liked most existing note-taking apps and wanted to make one that fit the way that I think. I made it open source [2] so other people can build on top of my ideas, and released a hosted version so that other people can use it if they like it. It would be nice if other people found it helpful, but regardless it's something that I intrinsically enjoy working on.

[1]: https://notabase.io

You can try Notabase https://notabase.io/, which is better for self-hosting.

if you prefer mdSilo, need to toggle the Offline mode false in code and use the third-part services: vercel and supabase

So far my best option seem to be https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence(which I haven't seen in any list of these type of apps for some reason) but that received no updates in 5 years(the dev apparently has no free time to work on it in the foreseeable future) and it has a few active bugs so if I can find something more stable, it would be ideal.

For people interested in this, adjacent solutions would be

- [ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox: Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox)

- [kanishka-linux/reminiscence: Self-Hosted Bookmark And Archive Manager](https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence)

- [go-shiori/shiori: Simple bookmark manager built with Go](https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori)

- [xwmx/nb: CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.](https://github.com/xwmx/nb)

https://github.com/pawelmalak/snippet-box https://github.com/archivy/archivy https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence

I used ArchiveBox but had some version migration issues with Docker which invalid my entire archive. It was also too resource-hogging for my cheap NAS. Then I looked into Reminiscence after but way to complicated to set-up for me.

I do find another project called Reminiscence, it works quite similar to ArchiveBox so the chance of bypassing paywalls is low, but still worth a try.

I’ve seen a handful of this kind of “Google, but only for things I’ve seen before” app. I think it’s something the world needs, but there are a lot of different approaches and I don’t think anyone has quite nailed it.

Ultimately the best solutions will likely use many different cataloging strategies depending on the content, and will allow you to tag or otherwise organize important content.

Funny enough if I had such an app I could make a list of 4 or 5 apps, but right now can only find one:

https://github.com/amirgamil/apollo

I remember seeing one posted to HN that used the browser API to essentially dump all resources on every website you visit to disk.

There’s also bookmarking and archiving tools like:

https://pinboard.in/

https://unmark.it/

https://www.linkace.org/

https://archivy.github.io/

https://github.com/kanishka-linux/reminiscence

https://perkeep.org/