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Tell HN: My new free note taking tool

So there are a lot of posts here about personal knowledge databases & note taking apps ... and methodologies. I wanted a way to keep track of info & just as importantly be able to easily see & edit that data from anywhere.

I wanted it to be robust, free, web-based, able to host code examples as actual files (e.g. style.css or script.js), and host images.

Turns out this is all available with Github & Gitlab.

Step 1: Create a Private Repo Step 2: Hit the . key or use the editor URL pattern: https://github.dev/{{username}}/{{repo-name}} Step 3: Start using ... you can add sub-directories with Markdown for notes ... you can add all the file types above.

For Gitlab just click "Web IDE" from your project's homepage.

(I made this URL: https://github.dev/{{username}}/{{repo-name}} my homepage, making it super easy to access.)

This is absolutely nothing new; but the epiphany I had a week or so ago about using a repo in this way seems to have really stuck (yes, a week is a short period of time but often a note app or approach sticks for a day or 2 for me).

I'm really curious if others do something like this & what other sorts of practices they might employ while doing this.

215 points ppetty 4 years ago 103 comments

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