Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative

Re:Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative by rayiner on Sunday January 25, 2015 @02:07PM (#8943862)

> The fact that Evernote uses its own cloud storage instead of say an encrypted folder in Google Drive/Dropbox etc is a negative of the service.

I hate this trend towards supporting only one or another kind of proprietary service.[1] What is wrong with WebDAV? That way, you can use a cloud hosting provider, or self-host.

[1] I'm looking at you Scrivener.

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Re:Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative by freehunter on Sunday January 25, 2015 @02:15PM (#8943895)

And another proprietary service ("make it an offline Chrome app"). It's the web, why would I want to be locked to a single vendor?

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Re:Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative by drvortex on Sunday January 25, 2015 @03:30PM (#8944133)

It is the path of least resistance to get to a 'Desktop' experience. And please, what are the alternatives?

Firefox ? I'm sorry, but Firefox lost relevance a couple of years ago now. Firefox is ethically the best , but it sucks in implementation. Firefox is now the broccoli of the web, stale broccoli at that.

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Re:Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative by freehunter on Sunday January 25, 2015 @05:04PM (#8944444)

ActiveX is pretty cool, and gives you a "desktop" experience. You should look into it if you like letting one corporation lock you into their proprietary version of the web.

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Re:Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative by findjashua on Sunday January 25, 2015 @05:11PM (#8944459)

a desktop app built with node-webkit would be better than a browser-specific app

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Re:Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative by vidarh on Monday January 26, 2015 @06:37AM (#8946511)

How? All you're proposing is replacing one dependency with another.

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Re:Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative by freehunter on Monday January 26, 2015 @01:02PM (#8948453)

At least there it's not really any different than shipping a WPF application that's tied to Windows. It's a desktop application, people are used to desktop applications being vendor-specific. I don't like the idea of people getting used to web apps being vendor-specific though. That's not okay. We have a chance to make it right this time. If it runs on your desktop and is vendor-specific, that's a shame but that's expected. If it runs in a browser and is vendor-specific, that's setting a bad precedent that we worked for years to overcome with IE6.

Of course, that's just my personal philosophy. Everyone is different.

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Re:Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative by Poiesis on Sunday January 25, 2015 @02:38PM (#8943975)

Lots of things are wrong with WebDAV, summed up as "many clients with different implementations/interpretations of the spec."

Related: Are there any decent WebDAV servers out there? I don't see any recent development being done on any.

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Re:Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative by niutech on Sunday January 25, 2015 @10:59PM (#8945476)

Sure! SabreDAV 2.1 released in November 2014, IT Hit WebDAV Server 3.9.2098 released in December 2014.

And Box is using WebDav too: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/200519748-Does-Box...

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Re:Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative by nissehulth on Sunday January 25, 2015 @02:10PM (#8943874)

I believe the idea was that the app would simply save data on a local drive that could then be synced with your favorite technology or service.

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