thats looking really promising, thank you very mutch

its the paid version of the open source hackmd right? the self hosted one has no book mode afak

thanks i will check it out that looks interesting

fair point, currently im not good enough though

Then why are you starting discussions at HN?

Not with that attitude

thats a good idea. How do you deal with publishing specific notes?

Specific notes are their own MD files. I use Working Copy on my phone to push a commit, and use Git Desktop on my computer.

I can really agree on the first point but know too little about the second one. It is indeed a problem but i think in most cases keywords or tags should be enough to implement. Im not sure but even full text search should not take that long for plaintext/md notes.

It's not a problem in terms of speed or CPU consumption, it's a problem in terms of relevance. It's when the relevant document you are looking for is result #34 or when the relevant document doesn't appear at all.

People will say "just use Lucene, bro" but often Lucene's search ranking is awful. (I used to laugh at "just use Solr, bro" because Solr's search scales about as well as Bitcoin when you add more shards.)

As for tags that depends on people putting accurate tags on. People hate to hear it, but tags need to have an ontology behind them to be really effective. For instance there is an anime imageboard that has tags like "purple hair", "green eyes" and these are close to useless for an image that has two people in it.

fair point i agree with that thanks for explaining

Do you really think so? A lot of those github projects seem rather big.

People sometimes make big things for their own use, while imagining them to be for other people's use, where other people are similar to themselves.

That can sum up Unix and everything that sprang from it, come to think of it.

Perhaps people use it despite its flaws, because it's the biggest and/or there's no other open-source option.

Yes the only thing they dont accomplish is the lack of privacy / not being able to self host. Besides that youre probably right

True but i havent found a way to do the publishing part nicely yet

Publish it how? It's mostly markdown, you should be able to use something like Pandoc to convert it to anything else.

Edit : even simpler, you could just put them on dropbox in a shared folder. It's markdown so it's human readable as pure text apart from the images (and you said you don't care about graphs)

I liked the idea that other users can edit it or that the markdown is rendered within the browser. CodiMD and Hedgedoc support that. They even support Co-Editing notes which is over the top for my needs. I just like the idea that i can rightclick a note in my notebook and publish it. They lack privacy and protection features though like password input or generating a new URL or proper user accounts. It would be nice if i could just send a special link and for the duration of X or until i revoke it friends can look at the rendered markdown with their browser. See https://demo.hedgedoc.org/features?both

Also Data Control is something i desire so i prefer self hosted.

probably good then that you dont use other social media. Hope its not too bad regarding HN. Its kinda nice to see im not the only one struggling with this kind of things.