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Hey Neville, no worries, I appreciate the information. FYI you can also contact me on Mastodon (https://ellane@pkm.social). Clibu Notes sounds good, though from what I can see the local first side of things won't be straight Markdown files, is that right? I'm interested in notes apps that work on top of a folder of Markdown files, without adding cruft to them. What format are Clibu Notes files stored in? (Central Coast of NSW here)

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Hi Ellane, Apologies for the late reply. I've been particularly busy with new Clibu Notes releases and tracking down a weird Chrome issue. I've just followed you on Mastodon, which I need to understand better.

Clibu Notes stores your notes locally in IndexedDB in the Browser and in a SQL Database on the server. Users can add, edit, delete whether they are on or offline and all changes resolve eventually. This includes multiple users editing the same content at the same time again on or offline. Clibu Notes currently has Backup and Restore using JSON format text files. Markdown import/export is planned and I can definitely see this being very useful to certain users.

We move to the Sunshine Coast for winter so we aren't stuck inside in front of the first.😀

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Thanks for explaining that. I'm committed to writing directly to human-readable plain text files at this stage, so I won't be trying out apps that use other formats. Wishing you all the best with it, though!

One thing I'd like to see in the Clibu Notes documentation/landing page is how your app is different from those already out there. You say it's faster; faster than what? Clibu is going to be a paid app, eventually, so let your website tell me up front why I should use it over a free alternative. How is it different to Craft/Capacities/Scrintal?

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Thanks for feedback. Good points re. the landing page. Without doubt the web site could and should be a lot better. I've just replaced the scrolling banner with a list of points which I hope deliver a much clearer picture of what Clibu Notes offers and why you might want to try it. A comparison table with other apps would be well worth adding.

Any comment on the update welcome.

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Hi Ellane, I want to let you know about our locally developed PKM/Note Taking app Clibu Notes that works on desktop, tablet, and smartphone. Local first, fast with first class editing, backlinks etc. Simple, effective note taking, always accessible everywhere.

I appreciate you are into paper notes at present and also Obsidian. However you might find Clibu Notes is also a good fit for you.

Apologies for leaving this as a comment, but I couldn't find any other way to contact you.

FYI I'm in Melbourne, Mornington Peninsula. See https://clibu.com

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