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Show HN: Yarc – bidirectional notes in markdown, accessible over API

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Yarc lists Roam as an inspiration, so I would like to mention an open-source alternative called Athens [1]. It's being actively developed and I imagine will soon eat Roam's lunch, given their unfortunate pricing model.

[1] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens

Well presented - it was easy to understand.

How would you say Deta is compared to Zeit or the other micro-cloud offerings out there? I've never used it.

Deta provides you with integrated backend services, like a database (already) or files (soon).

Disclaimer: Deta is the main project I'm working on now; yarc is my most recent side project.

Great work on the Deta website! Small typo in 'Add a database to you project today', but I loved the illustrations and the copy - quick and easy to understand with good differentiation.

I'll definitely be giving it a try in my next project.

My colleague did the site, but thanks for the kind words (also for flagging the typo)!

Awesome, please let us know if you have any feedback / questions.

All of these tools are inferior to other note tools because they can’t work offline.

I’m using apple notes.

Bear is also nice if you need markdown.

I have a 10 line shell script as a Daemon syncing my notes to a git repo.

I can use any editor anywhere - well except on my iPhone. There I just use apple notes for note taking, and sync anything important in some other device. I thought this was going to be a problem, but Most of the notes i take with the iPhone are throwaways (buy some groceries).

On the iPhone I can browse my notes through the github webcinterface, which supports search. Works better than I expected.Having had to migrate all my notes from Evernote to Apple notes to One note this last migration was the last. All my notes are in markdown, I own everything, Never going to use a note taking technology that’s not based on widely supported open technologies (got, markdown, etc).

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