Jotsy: Just your notes

Jotsy is a self-hosted, free and open-source note taking app with a goal of simplicity in mind. It is powered by Skytable. Read the full blog post here.

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🚧 This is currently under development

Features

• 🏢 Multi-user
• ✍️ Effective and distraction free notemaking
• 🖋 Plaintext or markdown
• 🔐 Secure authentication and session management
• 🌱 Extremely simple to self-host
• 🌲 Extremely light on resources
• 🍃 Extremely lightweight on the browser
• ⚒️ Simple configuration (read more here)

Getting started

1. First, install docker-compose by following the instructions here
2. Run this:

   mkdir jotsy && cd jotsy && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohsayan/jotsy/next/docker-compose.yml && sudo docker-compose up -d
   

3. Open your browser and head to http://localhost:2022

If you're having issues, consider reading the configuration guide.

Updating to the latest release

To update to the latest release (don't worry, you won't lose any data), run this:

cd jotsy && sudo docker pull ohsayan/jotsy:latest && sudo docker-compose up -d

This will pull the latest Jotsy image, stop the existing instance, rebuild the container and start it up again.

Stack

• Backend:
  • Database: Skytable
  • Language: Rust
  • Framework/tools:
    • Tokio: Asynchronous runtime
    • Axum: A web framework built on top of Tokio
• Frontend:
  • CSS Framework: Bootstrap
  • Scripting: Pure JavaScript (uses AJAX)
  • Markup: Pure HTML

Contributing

As highlighted in the original blog post, please create issues for any ideas you have; I want to hear them! Want to collaborate (would love some frontend wizard for some help :P)? Shoot me a DM on Twitter.

License

This app is distributed under the Apache-2.0 License.