Writing vs Plainpad

Writing

Writing is a lightweight distraction-free text editor, in the browser (Markdown and LaTeX supported). (by josephernest)

Note-taking and Editors

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josephernest.github.io

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Plainpad

📓 Plainpad - Self Hosted Note Taking App (by alextselegidis)

Note-taking and Editors self-hosted PHP JavaScript React note-taking Laravel

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alextselegidis.com

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Writing		Plainpad
	Project
1	Mentions	2
1,027	Stars	242
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	6.0
9 months ago	Latest Commit	23 days ago
JavaScript	Language	PHP
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Writing

Posts with mentions or reviews of Writing. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

A WYSIWG Markdown web app that let you edit your locally saved files
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2021

Cool projet!
I did something similar a few years ago: https://josephernest.github.io/writing
LaTeX (with Mathjax) support as well, click on the ? button to open local files.

Plainpad

Posts with mentions or reviews of Plainpad. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-28.

Simple note taking with markdown support
5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 28 Nov 2022

Does anyone know of a self-hosted simple sync-able note taking app that supports and could export markdown files? I was trying to get [plainpad](https://github.com/alextselegidis/plainpad) installed but it has defeated me. Too complicated.
Plainpad
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 19 Nov 2022

I'm interested in this project https://github.com/alextselegidis/plainpad

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Writing and Plainpad you can also consider the following projects:

Trilium Notes - Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

Joplin - Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

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

Dnote - A simple command line notebook for programmers

Wreeto - Wreeto is an open source note-taking, knowledge management and wiki system.

HedgeDoc - HedgeDoc - Ideas grow better together

DailyNotes - App for taking notes and tracking tasks on a daily basis