[dba-Tech] Taken notes anywhere

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi All:

For people who want to take and receive notes any where this might be the product for you. This app is not Google.doc or 365.word but it is small enough to fit on virtually any piece of hardware; from a smartphone to a server because it runs on any OS and its footprint is very small. Of course it has all the features you would expect of such a product that can collaborate, with multiple users in real time. 

http://simplenote.com/ 

Some of the features are: Traffic synchronizing between clients is always encrypted though for obvious reasons the actual notes are not (would not then be searchable). The application supports markdown so you can generate simple web pages. Info can be copied to Simplenote directly from the host clipboard. Notes can also be published by sharing the note's URL. There is a host of apps that work in conjunction with Simplenote:

http://simplenote.com/downloads/ 

The big ticket item is that the product is completely Open Source, so improvements can be added, forks can be made and/or simple note can be setup on any server or cloud host for any individual or company (a separate domain would have to be installed if hosting the product but that is a very basic web process):

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For the first time in Simplenote’s history, we’re open sourcing the Windows and Linux apps on GitHub (http://bit.ly/1XlpXWM)! You can peek at the code, or if you’re a developer, you can contribute to the project. The app is built with React (http://bit.ly/1XlqtnS) and runs on Electron (http://electron.atom.io/). 

If you run into any issues with Simplenote for Windows or Linux, please contact us (http://bit.ly/23i9fP7).

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Aside: Visual Studio code, the junior code editor was built using Electron which allowed the developers to code once and run everywhere. The Simplenote product is just open source built on top of open source. I have downloaded the React, Javascript library and have been viewing the code...absolutely brilliant...definitely a must have for any serious web developer.

If someone wanted to make Simplenote into a full featured document editor, it could encapsulate the presentation manger like CKEdior (http://ckeditor.com/)...also open source. I have been working with CKEditor for the last month, for a client and am impressed with it flexibility. In this editor a full mockup of an elaborate document page can be assembled and when saved the page is really nothing more than simple HTML5 script...which Simplenote can manage and display. In theory someone can replace much of the functionality that either Google docs or 365 Word has and customize it for a particular client. :-)
 
Jim