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Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want).

A couple of questions :

- do you have any kind of versioning/revision history ? Especially on the individuals "facts"

- do you have a search function ? How does it work ?

- Any kind of tagging system apart from the color code ?

- any way to export the raw data ?

- any plan of an API otherwise ?

- like other have mentioned, it's a bit of a touchy area, I'm fine with hosting it if it means I can access it from anywhere and I know my data is not sold some way or some other, but my 3nd point would be at least one thing to worry less if it would ever go down. Which leads me on my last point : What's your business model ?

PS: Anyone else @HN that knows of something similar ? (apart from evernote)

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Evernote, DEVONthink, and Google Docs are the big players.

There's also: http://are.na/, http://pinterest.com, http://www.dropmark.com/, https://kippt.com/, https://pinboard.in/, Wordpress or Tumblr (with the right theme) and there are 5+ more projects in this space announced over the past year of which I was aware at one time, but sadly I lost track of the list.

Not to mention, http://etherpad.org/ / http://piratepad.net, https://hackpad.com/, http://notepad.cc/, http://socrates.io/, http://quip.com, http://simplenote.com/, https://www.penflip.com/, http://snippi.com/ and the like share similar features.

wow, thanks! Since you're obviously interested and curated a list, could you share your choice?

Unfortunately there's no one application that does it all. I use Google Docs for collaborative document editing with various teams I work with, Arena for collecting bookmarks, embeds, and images (some of that activity is collaborative), Evernote for collecting and synthesizing ideas (also sometimes collaborative), Trello for high-level project management, OmniFocus as a personal task manager / universal inbox for ideas, references, etc., and I was using Ulysses (and Daedelus for iPhone) as a kind of journal / space for thinking through ideas, but I'm slowly migrating that over to Evernote.

> Anyone else @HN that knows of something similar ? (apart from evernote)

I'm currently experimenting with Emacs org-mode, Microsoft OneNote and a personal MediaWiki install on localhost. My observations so far:

- Emacs org-mode: (+) integrated power of my Emacs setup, (+) great key bindings, (+) based on text files, (-) difficult to learn, (-) no fancy UI, drag-n-drop

- Microsoft OneNote: (+) nice UI, (+) good mouse support, (+) drag-n-drop, (-) proprietary format, (-) no LaTeX

- MediaWiki: (+) rich wiki capabilities, (+) great revision management, (+) available in local network on any device, (+) everything in the browser, (-) painful updating, migrating, installing, (-) slow, no good keybindings

My conclusion so far: I'm torn between MediaWiki and org-mode. OneNote is a bit too proprietary for my taste. Next I’m going to move everything to org-mode and work on ways to publish my notes with LaTeX markup on the intranet and to include pictures more easily.

A feature from OneNote I love and nobody knows about because of poor marketing is the "me@onenote.com" [1]. You send an email to it, it creates a note where Email subject = Note title, and email content = the note text

I linked my gmail account to it (it doesn't require to sync email between the gmail and the outlook account) and I email "me@onenote.com" all the time.

If you just put a URL in the subject of your email, OneNote will create a note with the HTML page extracted (so it's fully searchable) as well as a screenshot of the page!

[1] https://blogs.office.com/2014/03/17/email-your-notes-into-on...

Have you tried Tiddliwiki? (http://tiddlywiki.com/), single file wiki, used it for a few years is fantastic

" Next I’m going to move everything to org-mode and work on ways to publish my notes with LaTeX markup on the intranet and to include pictures more easily."

Unless you're intending to put pdf's on your intranet, seems like org-mode's export to html would be better suited to what you want. You may also want to check the org-mode support for Jekyll, the ruby-based static-html blog engine.

OneNote has TeX support. If you make an equation, you can type in TeX and it will render.

Thanks, and good questions. Here's a first pass:

- Not yet: But I'm a big fan of Rich Hickey's thoughts on data and time if that gives any clues on where I'd like to take it (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values)

- Search function is very light just a client side search of the titles, but if people want it we'll probably build a server side full text search

- We've been debating different tagging schemes and actually built one out already but decided not to include it in the MVP until we get more feedback (let us know hello@faqt.co)

- Not yet, but we do want to build at least a minimal export functionality to give everyone peace of mind

- No API plans

- It's something we have to feel out, but it's followed closely my own use case where I need to store some information that I constantly refer to; self hosted is a thought but that automatically rules out most casual users. We'll see...

Can't use this without full-text search... it's a shame. I was looking for something more pretty than Tomboy Notes, but so far nothing is beating it.

I'll definitely check this out.

I currently use Google docs...usually the title of the doc in the form of a question where the doc is the answer.

The search varies in terms of accuracy from revision to revision.

If you want something open source and a bit more powerful, covering everything you've asked for and more, check out my product: http://haplo.org

It's more designed for use within an organisation rather than individuals, but works very nicely for small numbers of users. And as it has a plugin API, you can extend it easily.

This is macosx only but give DevonThink a go:

http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/overvie...

with the office version you get web access, hence accessable from anywhere.

notepad.cc tiddlywiki.com keep.google.com ...

http://alternativeto.net/software/tiddlywiki/

Personally I'd suggest a self-hosted instance of Moin Moin Wiki (https://moinmo.in/)

there's simplenote, which is multi platform. Im waiting for markdown support on Android (it's there on iOS).

http://trello.com

I see trello more like a super TODO list, not so much as a repository of knowledge !

Does anyone use it that way ?

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