[BUGHUNTER]

Somebody has to say it, as a sacrifice for the HN crowd I take the role of the DB:

It is unbelievable how many people that read "HN" - obviously considering themselves beeing "Hackers" - are not able to understand the basic requirements of a real hacker (TM) note taking app:

- it has to be open source - you do not want to hand over your personal notes to some unknown company and their decision making process, maybe they will just disappear or not support their product anymore.

- it has to have an open and good documented data format - you do not want your notes to disappear in an undocumented binary blob.

- if there is any way to sync data with other instances / machines, the sync server of course has to be open sourced and available for usage on your own server.

- of course some more functional things like versioning via git and it has to be lightning fast.

This is for the "cool hackers" that are STILL using services like dropbox, evernote or onenote. Learn it: these services are for uneducated people who did not understand anything. Please do not hurt the eyes of HN readers with advertising these anti-privacy services here, thanks!