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ilian | 2 years ago | on: Joplin is an open source note-taking app

You can try TagSpaces as well, it works also directly with your file system and do not use a database.

ilian | 4 years ago | on: Wallabag: Self-hostable application for saving web pages and articles

For a simple solution, saving the web pages and bookmarks as plain files you can try https://www.tagspaces.org/products/webclipper/

Having my saved web pages as plain files, gives me countless possibilities in terms of portability of my collection... This way I am independent of any online service or product...

ilian | 4 years ago | on: Marktext – Elegant Markdown Editor for Linux, macOS, Windows

Another free and open source note taking app with WYSIWYG is TagSpaces (https://www.tagspaces.org).

ilian | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

For saving web pages, parts of them or bookmarks as plain files, I can recommend the TagSpaces Web Clipper https://www.tagspaces.org/products/webclipper/

ilian | 5 years ago | on: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

A suitable addition to your system for managing notes is the open source tool TagSpaces (https://www.tagspaces.org). With it you can tag, preview and edit your markdown files in one application, without any vendor locking.

ilian | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?

I am using also a tool build myself called TagSpaces, you can see it action here: https://www.tagspaces.org/usecases/bookmark-manager/

ilian | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application

You can use the TagSpaces Web Clipper browser extension, which saves parts or whole webpages in simple html files. It is available for Chrome and Firefox from https://www.tagspaces.org/downloads/

ilian | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?

Which tools do you use to organize the digital artifacts you create? And how do you organize them?

ilian | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

For organizing files I can suggest a combination from meaningful folder structure and tags. Mac OS offers a great way to organize files with tags, but it is limited only for the Apple world. There are bunch of tools offering organizing files with tags, but most of them are cloud based or use databases for storing the tagging information. Both ways are locking your files in a third party systems in some way. A tool for organizing local files and folders with tags lacking these limitations is TagSpaces. If is open source and freely available from https://www.tagspaces.org

ilian | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager

This is great idea, but is very Linux/OSX specific, since TagSpaces is multiplatform application, this proposal will not work on Windows or Android platforms.

ilian | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager

Other operating systems don't posses the easiness of the tagging system build in OS X. The issue we see in the OS X tags is that they are locked to a particular operating system. Ones you copy/move your files on some other other platforms or the cloud you are mostly loosing the tagging information. BTW, TagSpaces is not only for tagging, we use it for example as a Evernote alternative.

ilian | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager

In order to organize files with tagspaces you could use tags, but is not mandatory. You can still relay your local file and folder structure, which is displayed in the application. In a way you can use any conventions with TagSpaces, without a bounding to any file sync cloud service or Evernote.

ilian | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager

The contributors have to sign the CLAs only if they want to contribute to the core of the application. BTW, all the tagspaces extensions are licensed under MIT, so here no CLAa are required.

ilian | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager

TagSpaces aims to be a cross-platform tool, implementing such a feature will be very restrictive for the use cases supported by the application.

ilian | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager

Thanks for the feedback. We are already working on a feature allowing saving description to files.

ilian | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: TagSpaces – An open source personal data manager

If you place something in the ~/.config it is not portable, ones you copy your files and folders to a usb stick or sync them with dropbox, you loose the meta data.

ilian | 9 years ago | on: WizNote – An Evernote alternative with an open source cross-platform client

A simple, open source and file based alternative for Evernote is TagSpaces (https://www.tagspaces.org), with native applications for Windows, OSX and Linux.

ilian | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Evernote alternatives for research?

If you don't like your research to be in the cloud, take a look on the open source desktop app of http://tagspaces.org

ilian | 11 years ago | on: Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative

Another open source Evernote/Onenote alternative is TagSpaces(tagspaces.org) It runs completely offline on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and Android, and since recently it features a server edition, running on top of a ownCloud installation.

ilian | 11 years ago | on: Open Source alternative to Evernote

You can take a look on Tagspaces - http://tagspaces.org which is also open source. It is not using a database and saves all the needed information directly on your file system. In my experiences this feature makes my notes extremely portable across my mobile, my laptop and my tablet...