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submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by rockyroad226@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

HelixNotes is completely free, open source, with no bloat. Your notes should be yours.

So we made sure they are. https://helixnotes.com/

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[-] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 1 hour ago

Is this the Google Keep replacement we've all been waiting for?

[-] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

This looks like the slightly less bloated Logseq/Obsidian I've been dying for!

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Please, please, add forgejo integration for sync provider.

[-] grapemix@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

Oh, hey, I saw your repo is stall for months and I thought your project go south. So you finally satisfied with your gui speed after rewritten? Good to see you make it, congrats. Already find a job? You should really design a good plugin sys with py, to expand more interactive data type. Let me know if you want to hear more.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 37 points 12 hours ago

I'll wait a few months and then check in again.

It stores all metadata in YAML frontmatter and doesn't cache in an SQLite blob? I bet that decision will be reversed pretty quickly once people try to migrate a 10k+ note collection and want to do operations like search immediately instead of scanning every file to build an in-memory cache.

[-] rockyroad226@lemmy.world 20 points 10 hours ago

You're right that all metadata lives in markdown frontmatter, but it's not uncached. The notes list also only reads around 2KB frontmatter, so it stays fast well past 10k notes. We do have some tweaks planned though to optimize this even further. This is a great suggestion, thank you!

[-] skyline2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 12 hours ago

No vibe coding. No AI. No slop. This is absolutely screaming LLM

[-] mogoh@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 hours ago

The whole website looks like AI.

Also the commit history is only 3 month old and the first commit is 26000 lines. How ever this could be longer in development and commits could be squashed. At this point, I doubt it though.

[-] grapemix@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

He did one big rewritten before because of poor gui speed. I won't comment on of if he use ai or not or code quality, but you can probably search old posts about his rewritten. I do agree dev should keep his git history less susceptible especially in this ai slop age

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 hours ago

They could be hosting the source code on github or something like that and changed to couldberg no?

[-] funnyguy@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 hours ago

nope, the git history would move with the repo

[-] Thorry@feddit.org 6 points 7 hours ago

This isn't a guarantee and also assumes the previous version management was git.

[-] chrash0@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

automatically responding that this was created with an LLM? this is absolutely screaming LLM

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Huge amount of downvotes. Clearly openclaw orchestrating angent swarm. /s

[-] chrash0@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

i see the LLMs have learned to use the “/s” mark!

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I'm afraid I won't be locking the pod bay doors today, Dave.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 8 points 12 hours ago

the advertising is troubling to me somehow; it has a budget and someone deciding were to spend the money on advertising.

[-] rockyroad226@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago

the advertising is troubling to me somehow; it has a budget and someone deciding were to spend the money on advertising.

I'm not being paid to advertise. This is just my contribution to the project.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 hours ago

that's impressive af; it looks really professional!

[-] rockyroad226@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Thank you, that's very kind of you to say!

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

you should go pro; you clearly already have the skills.

[-] als 14 points 12 hours ago

At this point I just need a markdown editor for my phone and syncthing to move everything back and forth.

[-] thal3s@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Obsidian is great. I believe syncing is an extra cost though.

I do this with "Markor", great notes app for txt and md files. All files locally and synced via Syncthing. Been using this for years, love it.

[-] recursivethinking@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I gotta try Markor. Been using Zettel Notes as a frontend to Obsidian/syncthing because they have postit widgets, and I need 4 on my home screen

[-] baronvonj@piefed.social 11 points 12 hours ago

I've been using Joplin on my phone and laptop with WebDAV sync to my NAS. Have plans to update to Joplin server so can share notes with the Baroness.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 hours ago

Been using Joplin with self hosted server for years and it's been great. It's not the prettiest app, but it's been the stickiest for my needs.

[-] Nima@leminal.space 2 points 10 hours ago

i upgraded to using Joplin from my old notes app that was not as robust.

i absolutely love Joplin and it's really great for organization as well.

simple and effective.

[-] mEEGal@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

Nice to see a Tauri app around here !

[-] mmmm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago

Just downloaded it and opened it and the first thing it does is to ask me for a "notes folder" with .md files, which I don't have. I just wanted to try it by writing notes.

[-] rockyroad226@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Try creating a blank folder and open it that way. Does it let you in after that?

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