Automattic open sources Simplenote
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I decided to give them another chance recently--hoping that these syncing issues had been cleared up--and Simplenote lost even more notes. It hasn't been dependable at all in my experience, and that's a shame because I love the interface and its focus on simplicity.
I'm excited that parts of it are going open-source. Hopefully the server will be made open so some of these core issues can be addressed.
But if you're worried about it you can set it up so that it keeps a local copy of your note library as well, just in case.
In the past few months / years, we've significantly improved both, it's performance and reliability.
Sync'ing bugs are taken very seriously, if you ever experience any kind of glitch, please: just let us know.
We'd be thrilled to have you back with us!
I just wish there was a note company who made "don't lose data" the #1 priority and built the architecture around treating that concept like a religion.
"People will decide if they want to give Automattic money".
> You can mirror all your data to your own backend, but it's not yet possible to host Simperium yourself. We're open sourcing our client libraries, protocol, and a reference service implementation that will allow you to host your own service in the future.
Edit: looks like simperium is some data stashing service (like firebase?). And simplenote is an app built on top of simperium. Did I get that right?
In fact, Simperium was originally created to provide the syncing features of Simplenote and then generalized to work as a service for anyone who wants to sync structured data.
It's definitely a very rough work in progress but I have used it successfully to deploy my own simplenote server that works with all the clients.
Simperium Server: https://github.com/beaucollins/node-simperium-server
It's in the proof-of-concept stage so it doesn't persist the data on the server.
Protocol for reference: https://github.com/Simperium/simperium-protocol/blob/master/...
Their developer page[1] still says "The current version of the Simperium API does not allow for 3rd party development of Simplenote apps at this time."
I'd love to have something like "Append to a Note" in IFTTT that behaves like the "Append to text file in Dropbox".
As far as I know, open sourcing the server is something Simperium wishes to do when it's feasible.
Simperium Syncing Protocol: https://github.com/Simperium/simperium-protocol/blob/master/...
I remember this company called Layer, they "open sourced" their "messaging UI framework", and I first thought it was something like JSQMessageViewController where you can just take the library and really build your own chat app, but turns out it's just a shell to connect to their layer.com server. Again, what's the point? I can't help but wonder what's going on in these people's minds when I think of all the time they would have taken to clean up code and prepare to announce their open source.
I use (and pay) Evernote because of this. You can edit and create notes while disconnected.
These are exactly the features Simperium provides.
I use native clients for simplenote on Mac and Android. It's pretty good.
This was covered previously here on HN.
Do you mean that you want to use it without initial account setup?