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Show HN: Yarc – bidirectional notes in markdown, accessible over API

28 points| mxek | 5 years ago |github.com

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benrbray|5 years ago

Yarc lists Roam as an inspiration, so I would like to mention an open-source alternative called Athens [1]. It's being actively developed and I imagine will soon eat Roam's lunch, given their unfortunate pricing model.

[1] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens

hrishios|5 years ago

Well presented - it was easy to understand.

How would you say Deta is compared to Zeit or the other micro-cloud offerings out there? I've never used it.

mxek|5 years ago

Deta provides you with integrated backend services, like a database (already) or files (soon).

Disclaimer: Deta is the main project I'm working on now; yarc is my most recent side project.

moltar|5 years ago

All of these tools are inferior to other note tools because they can’t work offline.

I’m using apple notes.

Bear is also nice if you need markdown.

fluffy87|5 years ago

I have a 10 line shell script as a Daemon syncing my notes to a git repo.

I can use any editor anywhere - well except on my iPhone. There I just use apple notes for note taking, and sync anything important in some other device. I thought this was going to be a problem, but Most of the notes i take with the iPhone are throwaways (buy some groceries).

On the iPhone I can browse my notes through the github webcinterface, which supports search. Works better than I expected.Having had to migrate all my notes from Evernote to Apple notes to One note this last migration was the last. All my notes are in markdown, I own everything, Never going to use a note taking technology that’s not based on widely supported open technologies (got, markdown, etc).