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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.
Hiya Hackers!
For the past few months, I've been working on writedown (https://writedown.app). A free and open source markdown editor that focuses on UI and UX. It's made to be simple and beautiful but still powerful.
writedown has live markdown preview (option to disable this also coming soon), offline support, PWA and cloud sync.
You can also share your posts with other people and download your posts in PDF, Markdown or HTML format.
Please do tell me how you like it and if you think it's useful (or not). I've been trying to create something simple that I could use for my personal notes, notes that I can share with my friends and so writedown came into existence.
I hope you like it and if you don't, I'd love to know the reasons.
Thank you :)
On the privacy front, we're never going to compromise the user data, never going to sell it, never going to share it with anybody else. We'll be making writedown self-hostable as well.
On the security front, we're using firebase firestore as the database. So at rest, it's well encrypted.
We're thinking of introducing some sort of encryption via passwords (kinda how I already am doing it on https://maglit.me). E2EE would be quite difficult and would affect the usability.
I use logseq for my diaries. https://logseq.com/
It's very powerful, but really doesn't feel that way. Each day I open it, it creates a new YYYY-MM-DD.md and shows it to me. All content is MD lists (or "blocks") and can be individually tagged with #hashtags. When there's a certain topic I wrote about, say writing down a dream I had, I tag the top-level block with #dream. Then I can write under it as I please. All such blocks will be visible on the #dream page, with the correct dates visible.
It's very easy to wrap my head around. I just write, outliner style, whatever I'm thinking of and want to write down. Never need to create a new page, always just directly to writing. Earlier dates can be found by just scrolling down.
I don't know why anyone with the technical knowhow to use a notetaking tool that's just a folder with markdown files would use a journaling app on some server somewhere. Syncing is very easily handled, too, with something like Syncthing or Dropbox.