A fully open-source and end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote

• Joplin

  771 42,770 9.9 TypeScript

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

Did some searching around, and only found one [1] semi related issue from 2018. Is this the one you were referring to?

[1] : https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/288

• notesnook

  215 8,308 9.9 TypeScript

  A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.

  

Unless I'm missing something very obvious, the source repository https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook only includes the client apps and not the server, and the parent organization "streetwriters" doesn't seem to have any other repositories for the server. How are you supposed to run your own instance without that?

There's also a lot of marketing-speak in the repository documentation and little to no documentation on how to actually deploy it. Overall this leaves a pretty bad taste in my mouth.

Compare this for example to Bookstack, which gets right to the point for how to install and deploy, with no marketing nonsense. https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• obsidian-releases

  1,652 7,956 9.9 JavaScript

  Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

  

I have moved on to a plaintext lifestyle that isn't tied to any tooling. If I have to protect/encrypt the content, I will look at doing that at the container -- such as a Vault.

Tools such as Obsidian[1] are a good option for me, as I can use it as that -- a tool and not worry about the content being tied to any platform - open or otherwise. For your Vault protection, tools such as the Cryptomator[2] works well.

I reason that tools will come and go. Even for many open source ones, I had my experience of being unable to rebuild/recompile because of the outdated libraries, unmaintained code, etc. The world moves on, real fast. Plain text is and will still work in the future. I'm also OK, spicing it up a bit with MarkDown, which still can maintain human readability even if the reader doesn't know what Markdowns are.

I'm not against using tooling in a group/team, where the tooling plays a good role in making the experience smooth. I would also definitely love to pay for tools that helps the team improve and save time and frustrations.

Best of luck to your product, and I hope it serves the use cases of others who need it.

1. https://obsidian.md

2. https://cryptomator.org

• Cryptomator

  491 10,619 9.7 Java

  Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud

  

I have moved on to a plaintext lifestyle that isn't tied to any tooling. If I have to protect/encrypt the content, I will look at doing that at the container -- such as a Vault.

Tools such as Obsidian[1] are a good option for me, as I can use it as that -- a tool and not worry about the content being tied to any platform - open or otherwise. For your Vault protection, tools such as the Cryptomator[2] works well.

I reason that tools will come and go. Even for many open source ones, I had my experience of being unable to rebuild/recompile because of the outdated libraries, unmaintained code, etc. The world moves on, real fast. Plain text is and will still work in the future. I'm also OK, spicing it up a bit with MarkDown, which still can maintain human readability even if the reader doesn't know what Markdowns are.

I'm not against using tooling in a group/team, where the tooling plays a good role in making the experience smooth. I would also definitely love to pay for tools that helps the team improve and save time and frustrations.

Best of luck to your product, and I hope it serves the use cases of others who need it.

1. https://obsidian.md

2. https://cryptomator.org

• Outline

  194 24,001 9.9 TypeScript

  The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.

  

What's the difference with outline[1]? It is a very similar service with markdown support.

[1]: https://www.getoutline.com/

• BookStack

  312 13,833 9.6 PHP

  A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel

  

Unless I'm missing something very obvious, the source repository https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook only includes the client apps and not the server, and the parent organization "streetwriters" doesn't seem to have any other repositories for the server. How are you supposed to run your own instance without that?

There's also a lot of marketing-speak in the repository documentation and little to no documentation on how to actually deploy it. Overall this leaves a pretty bad taste in my mouth.

Compare this for example to Bookstack, which gets right to the point for how to install and deploy, with no marketing nonsense. https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack

• CryptPad

  183 5,204 9.9 JavaScript

  Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

  

If you are interested in this kind of app you may like to take a look at https://cryptpad.org, a full featured collaborative office suite. End-to-end encrypted, built from the ground to know as little as needed about you and easy to host.

Try it on our flagship instance: https://cryptpad.fr, no registration required!

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Peergos

  33 1,859 9.3 Java

  A p2p, secure file storage, social network and application protocol

  

If you're looking for a fully open source, self-hostable, E2EE wiki web app then you might be interested in Peergos - https://peergos.org

We have a markdown based wiki viewer and editor- https://peergos.org/posts/markdown-browser

Peergos is a generic P2P E2EE filesystem with a bunch of apps on top, and you can write your own too - https://peergos.org/posts/a-better-web

Disclaimer: co-founder here

• ipfs-nucleus

  5 38 1.2 Go

  A minimal IPFS replacement for P2P IPLD apps

  

I love this part: https://github.com/Peergos/ipfs-nucleus

I've tried IPFS before but I hit a bug when using it so gave up on my idea for a side project. Might give this a go!

• sublime_text

  279 793 0.0

  Issue tracker for Sublime Text

  

I'm definitely in favor of tools on top of my text files. I started with Sublime Text[1] and Markdown Editing[2] Package. I can still and sometimes resort to this setup. I believe that if I can search (Sublime Text is powerful with this) easily, that solves all the connection/relationship between the files.

And a bit of a shameless self-plug but I have been told by colleagues and friends that my file organizations lasts ages, and are the easiest to navigate. Some have told me, 10-years later, that the system I build and the naming convention are still followed to that day to maintain the software and an easy common-lingual between the designers and developers. :-)

With tools such as Obsidian, it has already shown that this is going to improve as we progress. For me, it is more of the process and patterns of how am I mapping the files/topics/subjects mentally.

1. https://www.sublimetext.com

2. https://sublimetext-markdown.github.io/MarkdownEditing/

• ideas

  19 3,763 1.8

  a hundred ideas for computing - a record of ideas - https://samsquire.github.io/ideas/ (by samsquire)

I am more likely to journal and blog if the friction to creating a post is as simple as opening a document and writing. The important part of journalling or note software is that you actually create notes. I did use Hetzner to run a Wordpress blog but it had an overhead of server expenses and keeping Wordpress up-to-date.

I don't want my data trapped in a proprietary system where it is difficult to export, so I use plaintext. I looked into Publii [1] but I prefer my current plaintext setup. Today I journal software ideas, computer ideas, startup ideas and community ideas on GitHub in the open, as README.md files. My journal is all public on GitHub at the following links. There are over 550+ journal entries, I am sure you shall enjoy them.

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4

https://github.com/samsquire/startups

https://getpublii.com/

• ideas2

  13 268 0.0

  Another 85+ Ideas for Computing https://samsquire.github.io/ideas2/

I am more likely to journal and blog if the friction to creating a post is as simple as opening a document and writing. The important part of journalling or note software is that you actually create notes. I did use Hetzner to run a Wordpress blog but it had an overhead of server expenses and keeping Wordpress up-to-date.

I don't want my data trapped in a proprietary system where it is difficult to export, so I use plaintext. I looked into Publii [1] but I prefer my current plaintext setup. Today I journal software ideas, computer ideas, startup ideas and community ideas on GitHub in the open, as README.md files. My journal is all public on GitHub at the following links. There are over 550+ journal entries, I am sure you shall enjoy them.

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4

https://github.com/samsquire/startups

https://getpublii.com/

• Publii

  97 5,967 9.3 HTML

  The most intuitive Static Site CMS designed for SEO-optimized and privacy-focused websites.

I am more likely to journal and blog if the friction to creating a post is as simple as opening a document and writing. The important part of journalling or note software is that you actually create notes. I did use Hetzner to run a Wordpress blog but it had an overhead of server expenses and keeping Wordpress up-to-date.

I don't want my data trapped in a proprietary system where it is difficult to export, so I use plaintext. I looked into Publii [1] but I prefer my current plaintext setup. Today I journal software ideas, computer ideas, startup ideas and community ideas on GitHub in the open, as README.md files. My journal is all public on GitHub at the following links. There are over 550+ journal entries, I am sure you shall enjoy them.

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4

https://github.com/samsquire/startups

https://getpublii.com/

• ideas3

  12 253 0.0

  An Extra 100 Ideas For Computing - https://samsquire.github.io/ideas3/

I am more likely to journal and blog if the friction to creating a post is as simple as opening a document and writing. The important part of journalling or note software is that you actually create notes. I did use Hetzner to run a Wordpress blog but it had an overhead of server expenses and keeping Wordpress up-to-date.

I don't want my data trapped in a proprietary system where it is difficult to export, so I use plaintext. I looked into Publii [1] but I prefer my current plaintext setup. Today I journal software ideas, computer ideas, startup ideas and community ideas on GitHub in the open, as README.md files. My journal is all public on GitHub at the following links. There are over 550+ journal entries, I am sure you shall enjoy them.

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4

https://github.com/samsquire/startups

https://getpublii.com/

• ideas4

  26 89 4.6

  An Additional 100 Ideas for Computing https://samsquire.github.io/ideas4/

I am more likely to journal and blog if the friction to creating a post is as simple as opening a document and writing. The important part of journalling or note software is that you actually create notes. I did use Hetzner to run a Wordpress blog but it had an overhead of server expenses and keeping Wordpress up-to-date.

I don't want my data trapped in a proprietary system where it is difficult to export, so I use plaintext. I looked into Publii [1] but I prefer my current plaintext setup. Today I journal software ideas, computer ideas, startup ideas and community ideas on GitHub in the open, as README.md files. My journal is all public on GitHub at the following links. There are over 550+ journal entries, I am sure you shall enjoy them.

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4

https://github.com/samsquire/startups

https://getpublii.com/

• startups

  9 84 3.1

  a list of startup ideas

I am more likely to journal and blog if the friction to creating a post is as simple as opening a document and writing. The important part of journalling or note software is that you actually create notes. I did use Hetzner to run a Wordpress blog but it had an overhead of server expenses and keeping Wordpress up-to-date.

I don't want my data trapped in a proprietary system where it is difficult to export, so I use plaintext. I looked into Publii [1] but I prefer my current plaintext setup. Today I journal software ideas, computer ideas, startup ideas and community ideas on GitHub in the open, as README.md files. My journal is all public on GitHub at the following links. There are over 550+ journal entries, I am sure you shall enjoy them.

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4

https://github.com/samsquire/startups

https://getpublii.com/

• org-roam

  147 5,328 3.5 Emacs Lisp

  Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode

  

I think this is why org-roam[1] makes an index in (IIRC) a SQLite DB.

[1]: https://www.orgroam.com/

• foam

  49 14,796 8.5 TypeScript

  A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode

  

https://foambubble.github.io/ is and works on a similar concept.

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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