"your notes will always be" -> "your notes are always" "content will be synced" -> "content is synced"
"note will be periodically synced" -> "notes are periodically synced" "You can use it for managing personal tasks..." -> "Manage your personal tasks..."
"You can choose between light and dark" -> "Choose between light and dark"
The active voice equivalent of "content will be synced" would be "NotesHub will sync your content".
> "content will be synced" -> "content is synced"
FYI that's still passive voice.
If it’s clear the zombies are doing the action (subject), then the content is passive voice. Otherwise, if the zombies are an adverbial phrase, the sentence is in active voice.
Passive voice: “Content is synced by zombies”
Active voice: “NotesHub syncs the content by zombies”
When I started grad school and was learning how to write effectively, I struggled with passive/active voice differentiation… until I learned the zombies tip. It’s so absurd that you can’t forget it, and it’s simple enough to differentiate the two in a split second!
Although I didnt quite like that it asked for a permission to pretty much _everything_ in Githuhb - public and private repos, deploykeys?!, everything. I wish that were customisable. It was okay for me because I dont keep any non public code in Github, but others might have..
> To accomplish this scenario select generic Git notebook provider (instead of GitHub) and for the password field put fine-grained personal access token which can be generated to have access only to certain repositories.
It genuinely astounds me that as a solo dev he can make such a featureful app yet Microsoft the company has been failing hard in this realm for the last decade.
Also it makes you wonder how many UI-design teams, product owners, and middle managers are entirely obsolete next to a single competent SWE with a bit of talent for UI/UX.
It's a very generic webstack-app, build on 3rd-party-components. It's quite easy doing something on this level these days for an experienced developer.
> yet Microsoft the company has been failing hard in this realm for the last decade.
Did they? They are a company, so they have a different aim than a solo dev doing some hobby-project, or whatever this is. But quality-wise, their other apps build on webstack are not worse than this. It's more that they are old, with old apps, and they seem to have some internal struggles finding their way. Which is probably why they went back and forth with OneNote, and why it sucks so hard at certain parts.
That Microsoft is just not good at building consumer-facing software in general is hard to deny though.
https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/obsidian-another-quick-swi...
I wrote a plugin called Relay that makes obsidian multiplayer with live collaboration (using CRDTs), and there are a few others in the space too.
Obsidian sync is also great for e2e encrypted sync for your own devices if you don't want to rely on third parties like GitHub.
I need the sandbox, for bussiness is a no brainer, allow some apps from the store, give the right permissions, done and for me personally, I don't use anything that doesn't come from the store, even if I can download the app freely from the project page, a few bucks for the sandbox and peace of mind is worth it to me.
I donated to Obsidian because I liked the project in general, I dislike the way they distribute the app in all platforms outside of ios, ex, snap with --classic rendering the attempt to sandbox it useless.
Edit ---
Reading some comments, it's pretty obvious that a lot of people even install third party plugins, on an app that is about taking personal notes, it's refreshing to see how much people care about cybersecurity and their personal, business notes.
A really interesting feature would be the ability to post to your own host --- the publishing aspect is the one thing which has me seriously contemplating Obsidian, but I'm so deep into gitbook and github I haven't been able to justify a cost-benefit calculation.
However, a few questions:
1. Can I self-host it? If so, how? 2. Can I connect to a "private" Github repo? (I dont want my personal notes publicly viewable, unless I choose so) 3. What's the pricing model? Wasn't entirely clear.
Thanks!!
The FAQ says "To accomplish this scenario select generic Git notebook provider (instead of GitHub) and for the password field put fine-grained personal access token which can be generated to have access only to certain repositories."
I created a PAT with EVERY permission within a selected repo, to the fullest-extent allowed by the fine-grained PAT, but still see "An unhandled error occured, please try again" when setting it up within NotesHub.
I just wish every rich text editor had accessible markdown…
If I were still using it regularly I'd put one together using WordBASIC/VBAscript.
The "Key Features" section mentions "Export notes to PDF"; please consider adding an "Export notes to HTML" option. Custom theme support for the preview pane via CSS would be helpful too.
Thx!
It also sounds like NotesHub might have better out-of-the-box syncing options than Obsidian. Personally, I sync obsidian to a Gitea hosted on a VPS and it works great but that's understandably well beyond what a casual user is going to be willing to do.
The big limitation I'm seeing over competitive alternatives (such as obsidian, logseq, or joplin) is the lack of plug-in support. A robust and passionate community can help flesh out features that otherwise might never be realized particularly with a small dev team.
In fact I was just curious so I did a quick search in the Community Plugin section in Obsidian and there's already a plugin to render ABC notation.
Markdown based with HTML templates to allow for different appearance when converted to PDF. It also has cross references to other files, so that long documents can be broken down into separate files.
It doesn't have all the features that NotesHub has - hats off to that and I hope NotesHub becomes a success.
YMMV, but this is my recollection.
For those asking about the advantages of NotesHub over Obsidian, this app offers a web version—a feature I have long wished Obsidian would provide.
I made a quite similar app with some other features that are a personal must-have which this one lacks.
There are a few typos on the site you might want to review: https://triplechecker.com/s/259685/about.noteshub.app?v=rLAc...
Looks great otherwise!
Are there plans for plugins and so forth ala obsidian? For instance, it would be great to have a daily/monthly/quarterly/yearly note and what not.
I sadly use my own hand-rolled markdown system way too often to really switch, but I’ll definitely have to check this out for an on-the-go replacement for Google Keep.
B) “offline first” is a great feature, but I’m curious why you didn’t go with the terms hear more often, “local first”? Just wanted something more accessible to laypeople?
C) “offline first” seems hard to match up with “progressive web app” — not from any sort of user perspective (sounds ideal, even!), just in terms of technical implementation. Am I correct in assuming that the iOS and android versions are PWAs, and that they still durably store files on device? If so, how hard was that?
D) “all major platforms: iOS/macOS/Android/Windows” made me shed a brief tear. It’s ~~infrastructure~~ Linux Week, time to add a platform!!
Best of luck and thanks for sharing your work. I look forward to meeting you on top of the world one day ;)
Which tool / framework do you use to achieve this?
I currently use Foam on VSCode for notetakng / personal project management. But 2/3rds of my actual typing tends to be inside NeoVim following the foam format (vscode vs vim on the day is determined more by what i'm working on that day vs anything else). I'm constantly on the lookout for a better* system; but haven't found one yet as sometimes I want a UI; but Grep and quick jots inside the terminal is just very useful.
iOS has definitely improved in that area and definitely now has a filesystem.
From a filesystem perspective, it's no different from jails or container mount points.
I want something WYSIWYG-like, without dealing with the underlying mechanisms... give me rich-text on the front and save the file in Markdown behind the scenes. I hardly care, as long as there is a robust export option built-in.
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Markdown ist basically a must have for me though, because I know most applications will be outlived by my notes, and I want to be able to move on to a different editor. To try a new one, or even use multiple at the same time (say, on my phone and on my computer), it's unacceptable for me if I have to export and import all my notes first and risking diverging branches.
In general I think taking notes is a very personal thing many people do every day and they're looking for an app fitting their exact workflow. That's why there are so many options. I was considering writing my own one several times already, although it's probably not worth the time.
A robust export option is what we're all looking for here.
> taking notes is a very personal thing
I agree with that.
Markdown vs. Rich Text to me is less about the editing experience and more about do you want your files aligned to a file system or not. The options are either:
- rich text editor with files that only make sense to a single application. - rich text editor with no files but (hopefully) some way to export them to (hopefully) compatible formats. - text files in a folder than can be read / edited by almost anything, with the editing experience tied to your application of choice.
I literally don't need anything else.