silicon

Silicon Notes, a web-based personal knowledge base with few frills (by cu)

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  • Outline: Self hostable, realtime, Markdown compatible knowledge base
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jan 2024
    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

  • Ask HN: What tooling do you use for organizing/offloading your thoughts?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2023
  • Joplin – open-source note-taking and to-do application with sync
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2023
    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

  • Web-based knowledge management software recommendation?
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 11 Jun 2023
    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
  • Searching for Joplin alternative
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 27 Jan 2023
    It doesn't have folders and tags, but if that's not a deal-breaker you could check out https://github.com/cu/silicon
  • Silicon Notes - self-hosted wiki-like knowledge base
    1 project | /r/u_rsohlot | 15 Jan 2023
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 15 Jan 2023
  • Is there any self hosted journaling app you are using and can recommend ?
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 17 Dec 2022
    Not sure which features you're looking for, but you could try this thing I wrote: https://github.com/cu/silicon
  • Why Categories for Your Note Archive Are a Bad Idea (2015)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2022
    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

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cu/silicon is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of silicon is Python.


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