It has many upsides like every page being a markdown file, the interface is nice and easy to use, it supports embedding files images, videos, diagrams and PDFs, highlighting PDFs and referring to the highlights, saved searches (e.g all tasks about “life”, pages about science and " forum responses", …), and I’m probably forgetting a few. It even has a mobile app that’s works quite well.

The downside however is that it’s all in some functional language transpiled into JavaScript to run in electron. There’s no CLI to take a directory and spit out HTML files to host your notes, “automation” means downloading and running the electron app, then interacting with an API that controls electron and simulates clicking. It’s amongst the worst solutions I’ve seen for automation and I’m not sure why they built the application this way. And because it’s an electron app, there are unnecessary difficulties on read-only system partitions / atomic operating systems. Finally, though opensource, they have a Contributor Licence Agreement (CLA).

My fear is that there will be a rugpull at some point in the future and I’ll have to find an alternative solution, so right now I’m on the (passive) lookout for opensource alternatives with mobile apps. Found nothing yet and I don’t want to start developing one myself (no time).

Anti Commercial-AI license