Notr

Simple [lang: go, lua or other?] application for organizing and referencing notes. Loosly based on obsidian.

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. I think a CLI would be my best bet, although a NeoVim tool could accomplish the same.

Process notes. Metadata and diffs
Search and Filter by tags
Search and Filter by content

Version 2.0

Here I can do the same on my phone.

Also:

Metadata approach

Multiple approaches possible.

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