Notes

A dead-simple paper for keeping notes. Notes is a simple notes taking app that focuses on simplicity to reduce distractions.

See Live app here.

Notes?

• Simple and easy to use
• Extensible with editors (such as Markdown and Code)
• Open-source
• Distraction free and minimal ui

Local Setup

This repo contains the core code used in the web app. to get started you'd need the following installed

• Yarn
• NodeJs
• Python
• Python Poetry
• Git

Clone project

git clone https://github.com/rubbieKelvin/notes.git # or 'git@github.com:rubbieKelvin/notes.git' for ssh
cd notes

Setup frontend

yarn              # install packages
yarn frontend     # run locally

Setup backend

# setup virtual env
python3 -m venv venv
source ./venv/bin/activate

# install requirements
poetry install

# run backend
yarn backend

If you have any issues installing pyscopg2 from the poetry install step, run this:

# debian based (Ubuntu, ...)
sudo apt install python3-dev libpq-dev

# or for red hat (Fedora, ...)
sudo dnf install python3-devel libpq-devel

then run the install step again

poetry install

open your browser to http://127.0.0.1:5173/ for the frontend server.

Backend is located at http://127.0.0.1:8080

Contributing

For contributing, There're probably tons of issues opened right now, Self assign your self to a project, fork this repository, push updates/changes to your fork and make a PR.