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Re:Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives? by fotcorn on Sunday March 15, 2015 @09:16AM (#9206365)
I'd like a combination of Evernote and Workflowy. Workflowy is an editable tree of information, but every branch/leave is only one line of text.

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Every branch of the tree should be a Evernote-style multi line note with text formatting functionality. The tree would be a file system like structure, but the Workflowy UI feels much less clunky than Google Drive/Dropbox or similar services. Workflowy supports marking nodes as completed, so a service like this could even work as task management system.

Re:Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives? by pdx on Sunday March 15, 2015 @12:40PM (#9207076)
If I can't have embedded pictures it's a non-starter for me. That knocks out everybody, really.

Just synced text, even if it happens to be markdown text so it's a bit prettier, is not valuable to me.

Evernote's ability to quickly drag in some pictures and throw some text in to explain them is what I want. A real notebook allows me to sketch. A digital notebook must also allow me to incorporate concepts that require pictures because they can't be easily written as text.

To improve Evernote, I would like the "notebooks" to actually be tags, so the same document could appear to reside in multiple places.

I would like it to have h1,h2,h3 header tags, so I could build documentation that had structure, rather than just manually making some text big and bold to pretend to be a header.

I would like a "table" creator or tag, so I could add table data easily.

I will never give up my embedded pictures though.

Re:Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives? by tibbetts on Sunday March 15, 2015 @10:16AM (#9206559)
Agree so much. Beyond the their-server and sync errors, the biggest missing feature of Evernote is task outlines as good as workflowy.
Re:Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives? by webwanderings on Sunday March 15, 2015 @10:24AM (#9206592)
If Workflowy gets a bookmarklet, I'd use it more often. It is no nonsense honest service in its space.