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I would love to see an EverNote/OneNote replacement that was based on the filesystem and git. In addition to a great web UI, any client could then access and edit notes via git. Sync could be provided with Github or your own repo.

Maybe markdown + git + nice UI clients?

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I use Notational Velocity[1] + markdown + Dropbox for taking and organizing notes. You can set it to use regular files or rtf, which is nice because then I can pull up or edit my notes anywhere I have dropbox synced (like my phone)

[1] Actually the nvALT fork: http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

I have some awful elisp code that glues together org mode, iimage.el and Deft to do something along these lines. All notes are stored as plain text with images in a sensible directory structure. I don't use git, everything just sits in a Dropbox folder. Emacs works well for me as the UI, but there's no reason a web-based UI couldn't be written. I could look into tidying it up over the Christmas break and publishing it if there's interest.

I would be interested, though probably not so much in the web UI for it - Emacs would be fine.

I would also be interested! A sane structure for embedding images within org-mode notes is one thing that I haven't bothered to make a solution for. (Instead, I defected to Zim.)

I think that's a great idea - I take it you mean a direct mapping of notes and attachments into some sensible directory structure?

Yes, pretty much. Maybe it exists?

I'd love to know if it does - I can see that OneNote is pretty slick but I'd prefer something that has a nice UI (with notes, proper drawings, images and attachments) with a sane directory based storage format.

NB I have tried Evernote but couldn't quite get into it - I make do with a combination of ever expanding Google Docs documents and text files open in whatever editor I'm using that week...

I've been using nValt + DropBox for about 18 months now. I haven't really missed Evernote. Plus all my stuff is available in any easy to search text document format, not locked into any applications.

I can access from mobile via different applications, too.

A file-based wiki like dokuwiki wouldn't suffice the requirements, I suppose.

Only maybe if hosted on Dropbox public folder.

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