GitNoter
Productivity
note taking
SHOW HN2022
241points
117comments
#204of 2,570 in 2022
Top 8%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
5 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 35 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Idea: 1 for, 5 againstExecution: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean interface and good markdown preview
From 2 comments
You don't have to compare this to Evernote. I really like what you have done so far. The preview of the MD is fantastic. Feels hard enough for me to find just that! I love the…
glook on HNIt looks clean and super good! Considering moving from Obsidian as it gets more refined. A few more features IMO would be nice: (fuzzy) search; task management; math formula…
yurikoif on HN
Git-backed storage with revision history
From 1 comment
Because it does not require desktop client. It stores the notes in git repository so you have access to all the revisions which is very useful in case you want to revert any…
vivekweb2013 on HN
Objections
Name conflicts with Git trademark guidance
From 1 comment
The name needs to change. This tool commits the cardinal sin of choosing a name GitSomething, where Git is only incidental to the domain that the product is concerned with…
pwdisswordfish9 on HN
Positioned against Evernote but better suited to team knowledge management
From 2 comments
I understand that this allows you to manage collections of notes in Markdown format backed up to a Git repository. This is nice and I consider this to be useful, but I would…
pantulis on HNCongrats. I think there's an opportunity for a markdown-based Confluence competitor. Something that can be used by non technical people. You might want to consider that…
wharfjumper on HN
Missing web clipping, OCR and image upload
From 3 comments
For me, Evernote’s killer feature is automatic OCR. (Subs that I can just upload a doc through my phone’s camera). It looks like this doesn’t have that, unfortunately.
kevinmgranger on HNThanks for sharing, but almost all "alternatives to Evernote" lack some of the most important (to me) features like web clipping, OCR and related notes. The only real alternative…
sandgiant on HNCongrats. I think there's an opportunity for a markdown-based Confluence competitor. Something that can be used by non technical people. You might want to consider that…
wharfjumper on HN
Requests
Image and file upload
From 2 comments
Congrats. I think there's an opportunity for a markdown-based Confluence competitor. Something that can be used by non technical people. You might want to consider that…
wharfjumper on HNJust a few suggestions (some overlap with other comments). If you really want it to be an Evernote competitor, it should have: Image/file upload Web clipper (singlefile is great)…
bachmeier on HN
Support for GitLab and other git hosts beyond GitHub
From 1 comment
Nice project. Is there any plan to handle gitlab login/other kind of login as well ? For now it seems to work only with github.
eole666 on HN
Math notation support
From 2 comments
Hi, does this support maths notation via MathJax or Katex?
mkl on HNIt looks clean and super good! Considering moving from Obsidian as it gets more refined. A few more features IMO would be nice: (fuzzy) search; task management; math formula…
yurikoif on HN
Web clipper
From 2 comments
Thanks for sharing, but almost all "alternatives to Evernote" lack some of the most important (to me) features like web clipping, OCR and related notes. The only real alternative…
sandgiant on HNWeb clipping?
lolive on HN
OCR
From 1 comment
For me, Evernote’s killer feature is automatic OCR. (Subs that I can just upload a doc through my phone’s camera). It looks like this doesn’t have that, unfortunately.
kevinmgranger on HN
Questions
Does it support shared or multiplayer note-taking?
From 2 comments
Looks really cool, congrats on the launch! How would multiplayer notes work? Assuming everyone has access to the repo.
joe8756438 on HNDoes this support shared note-taking - I tried fast forwarding through the video tour (please consider making it shorter) and it mentioned changing repositories so in that same…
baytowner on HN
Why use this instead of Joplin?
From 1 comment
Why should I use your tool and not Joplin?
mrichman on HN
Alternatives named
Joplin
From 2 comments
Another alternative that Im using and very happy with - Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/). Also provides import from Evernote which mostly worked in my case.
hohloma on HNFor private notes & random images/files app I would suggest trying https://joplinapp.org But I use as private notes mainly, so can't say much on file storage side. Multiple sync…
PikachuEXE on HN
Obsidian
From 2 comments
Not exactly open source, but as far as "alternatives to Evernote" goes, I've been told about Obsidian[0] (though I've not jumped in yet), which has plugins for OCR and web…
lapser on HNWhen I presented Obsidian to a friend, and he told me that it was just a note-taking app, I was quite shocked by [what I consider to be] such a lack of consideration. Because I…
lolive on HN
Logseq
From 1 comment
If you like Obsidian, check out Logseq. Both handle plain-text Markdown, so you can use them interchangeably. Logseq also handles Org-mode files, if that’s your thing. Everything…
adfm on HN
TiddlyWiki
From 1 comment
TiddlyWiki has hit most of these capabilities for many years now, and is nearly unique in wrapping up all the code and data in a single unit that can be run in any regular…
dublin on HN
GitJournal
From 1 comment
I love how more and more of us are using Git to store our notes, though in this case it's more coupled to GitHub than Git. If there is already a need to self-host this, then why…
vhanda on HN