- The app is available for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Apple Vision Pro, and the Web.
- The Web version is implemented as a Progressive Web Application that is very responsive, local first, offline first, can be installed, and is entirely free to use.
- Native (hybrid) versions do not require subscription fees and have small one-time payment.
- You can store your notes in Git using any Git provider such as GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. However, it has the best built-in integration with GitHub. Self-hosted scenarios like Gitea are also supported. In addition to Git, you can store your notes in a file system and iCloud Drive on Apple Devices.
- It has a rich Markdown syntax support with added extensions like Mermaid, ABC music notation, callouts, etc.
In addition to regular Markdown notes, you can create Kanban boards for easy task management (under the hood, it is still stored in Markdown). If that is not enough, you can create whiteboards based on Excalidraw and embed them back into your notes.
"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”
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.
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 ;)
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.
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.
https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/obsidian-another-quick-swi...
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.
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.
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.
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Thx!
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