Top 3 auto-save Open-Source Projects

SingleFile

94 13,673 9.7 JavaScript

Web Extension for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file

Project mention: How SingleFile Transformed My Obsidian Workflow | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-26

That's interesting. I have been saving articles as PDF files, which is browser-independent, but useful just for search and reference, a nuisance to quote/copy-and-paste.
If I search only the computer, I don't get results from EBay and Amazon at the top. The idea of keeping the knowledge base separate from the primary notes is a good idea. In my case, that knowledge base is the file system, and the primary notes are whatever I choose.
When I was using Evernote, the inbox was the knowledge base and notebooks were the focus. I just had too many different potential projects going on to manage this well.
Looking to focus.
I'll revisit Firefox and SingleFile.
Explanation of the zip file inside.
https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/master/faq...

super-save

3 303 7.0 Emacs Lisp

Save Emacs buffers when they lose focus

Project mention: super-save 0.4 is out with a bunch of new features! | /r/emacs | 2023-12-09

SurveyJS

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Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
notorious

2 106 0.0 TypeScript

Offline-first note taking and knowledge management application for desktop and the web. Supports nested notebooks, tags, real-time sync, images and file attachments. Optimised for efficiency with keyboard navigation, full-text search and version control. Never lose a thought. Private, fast, notorious 😈

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).