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by reacharavindh 2154 days ago
This. Thousand times this.

I have been waiting for an online wiki with the usability of Apple Notes that I use locally on all my Apple devices. It works like a charm except that I cannot make it public.

This is why I often take notes rather than write blog posts on my website. If the wiki software was as easy drag and drop as Apple Notes, I’d just take notes and they turn into publicly available wikis!

I am yet to find that tool. I would happily pay for such a tool with one braking condition that it must be self-hostable. I will not write my content into something like Medium or Notion where I don’t own my content.
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jve 2154 days ago
This seems like it: ImgPaste plugin for DokuWiki

https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:imgpaste https://github.com/cosmocode/dokuwiki-plugin-imgpaste

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kontxt 2153 days ago
Kontxt (https://kontxt.io) lets you write inline highlights, comments, polls, etc, on digital content with permission based sharing. You can share full articles with your responses on it (example: https://www.kontxt.io/proxy/https://www.independent.co.uk/li...) or a summary view (example: https://www.kontxt.io/document/d/CChEtxTRf9lt3IZhuTSw1zES8Dg...). Soon we'll add a WYSIWYG editor that you can write your own content and references content from other annotated sources.

Is this the type of functionality you're looking for if it could be self-hosted? How much would you be willing to pay for such a tool?

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snickmy 2154 days ago
This is technically feasible. The latest html5 api (quite well adopted) allow copy paste from the OS and drag and drop. There is quite a bit of server side / javascript to implement, but it is feasible.
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motiejus 2153 days ago
I will announce something like this soon:

- ui: joplin. - agpl, fully self-hostable. - you own your content (because joplin). - choose among free templates, or create your own. - templates will be similar or compatible to hugo, still tbd.

Optional for paying customers:

- sync via webdav to my service. - custom domain. - backups, etc.

Once this starts generating money, I am planning to spend some of it to fund e2e per-folder encryption in joplin.

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