Notr

Simple Go application for organizing and referencing notes. Loosely based on Obsidian.

Implementation: See jade-depo/ directory for the CLI tool.

Workflow

I take notes in two primary ways:

Phone

• Quick notes, on the go.
• View and search notes.

Workstation

• Using NeoVim for notetaking

Other infrastructure

• I host a VPS with a Nextcloud and Gitea instances.

What I want

• A Obsidian Vault like structure. A folder where notes live.
• A file is a note
• Can also store attachments, such as images. These files can then be referenced in the relevant notes.
• Directories is the main organization method, although tags and links can seam-lesly cross directories boundries.
• Markdown syntax (this can be handled by NeoVim and a markdown editor on other devices.)
• Tags: Syntax +tag
• Note links for referencing other notes or any other vault files. Syntax uncertain. Obsidian uses ?
• See reports about the vault. Tag report
• At some point I would like to have a web-app and host it on my server. This would integrate with my authentik service for auth, and would be a live view of a users vault
• OCR would be great.

Implementation

I have a tendency to scope creep and never actually getting a usable product, so an important goal here is practicing getting a usable app up and running. This should not have to be the biggest project, so I'll try to predict the process:

Version 0.1

Here I use other tools for the note-taking and accept that any searching is on a directory basis only.

• I create a directory in Nextcloud. This I will start using immediately.
• Find a good Markdown editor for android.
• Adopt any crutial Obsidian notes

Version 1.0 ✓

This is where I can use Notr to find and search notes on my workstation. CLI implementation complete!

• Process notes. Metadata and diffs
• Search and Filter by tags
• Search and Filter by content
• Add, edit, delete notes
• List all notes and tags

Version 2.0

Here I can do the same on my phone.

Also:

• OCR

Metadata approach

Multiple approaches possible.