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Turtl
Cherry Tree
Laverna
TagSpaces
Standard Notes
Simplenote
A note-taking application allows a person to record and recall small bits of information, such as minutes from a meeting or reminders of tasks. The current model for note-aking is Microsoft's OneNote, although the idea can be traced back to Apple Computer's HyperCard of the 1980s.
Note-taking enjoys the presence of an impressive number of free software products. But the features are limited. Many products are open core, and offer the most valuable functions in proprietary extensions. Some of the features offered by the applications include:
Frictionless pull-up and entry, so that fleeting thoughts can be quickly preserved
Hierarchies of notes
Privacy through encryption, and other guarantees
Tags to facilitate search
Ability for multiple people to collaborate on notes
Easy cloud storage
Other desirable features, which don't seem present in current offerings, include:
Access from the command-line, without need for a graphical interface
Links to other notes
The ability to work offline and synch to the cloud later
Ability to convert a note to an outline in an authoring tool
A summary blog posting offers some basic features of the tools. The open source ones are covered here.
Turtl looks impressive on paper and deserves more investigation. Among its appealing features are:
Fine-grained sharing with collaborators
Tags that marke notes and help find them
Support for Markdown (which is use on IEEE SA Open pages) and mathematics formatting through TeX
Server that can be installed locally, as well as a cloud option
Statistics on GitHub:
Turtl consists of several projects, so gathering statistics is hard. I just checked the desktop app.
40 forks
1 pull request
README.md was created in January 2014
Web page with coding guidelines and other guidelines for contributing
Empty TODO file
Cherry Tree runs on Linux and Windows, and has an unsupported Mac version. It allows hierarchies of notes, and can export notes to PDF, HTML, or text.
One article warns that it is "not for concurrrent use".
According to the GitHub repository, Cherry Tree has remained at version 0.99 for some time, and has not yet reached version. 1.0. Nevertheless, the summary blog posting claims that "the app is regularly updated. For this reason, it is one of the best note-taking tools for programmers."
Statistics on GitHub:
401 issues
1 pull request
4 branches
Laverna is JavaScript-based, so it should run anywhere. The site says it is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, with an Android version upcoming. The tool has a simple interface that support Markdown formatting. The screen allows input in raw Markdown and shows the formatted text next to the input.
Versioning is a bit disturbing: GitHub shows that the most recent release was October 2017, and the version number was 0.7.51. On the other hand, the GitHub repository has been present for at least 7 years.
Statistics on GitHub:
-10 pull requests
TagSpaces looks spiffy. It is open core, and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
It supports plain text, HTML and Markdown formats.
Standard Notes has a visually clean interface. Like most of the other offerings covered in this document, it offers end-to-end encryption and a promise not to track users.
Standard Notes is open core. A blog posting says: "Standard Notes publishes the source code for its web, desktop, and mobile apps as well as its syncing server and extensions under AGPLv3." But the free/open part has limited functionality. For instance, I can see a list of changes, but the information shown is pretty useless. I don't know whehter you can get source control by paying for an extension.
As the name suggests, Simplenote has few features. It did not work on my Mac, which is a bad sign. One of its attractive features is that it claims to preserve old versions of your notes.
Readers who have come this far deserve a bit of comic relief.
I closed this after linking it to the PeerTube issue #19 .
This is not a specific tool request.
IEEE SA Open needs a platform for storing and archiving meeting recordings.
Right now, recordings are saved in git repositories, which are not ideal for large video files.
I saw NextCloud #12 is being evaluated, maybe that'll work.
Ultimately, I'm open to any tool (maybe something like YouTube?).
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