HelixNotes now on Android, same Rust + Tauri codebase (helixnotes.com)
from ArkHost@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 01 Mar 00:49
https://lemmy.world/post/43705151

Last month I posted HelixNotes here and some of you asked about mobile. Version 1.2.1 ships with an Android APK. Same codebase, Rust + Tauri 2.0, no separate app. Since last post: Android support, Ollama for local AI, graph view performance improvements, wiki-link navigation, and a bunch of mobile UX polish. Direct APK download from the site. IzzyOnDroid submission in progress. AGPL-3.0, source on Codeberg.

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favoredponcho@lemmy.zip on 01 Mar 03:54 next collapse

It’s a pretty polished notes app, though couldn’t see that it supports encryption.

Unusable3151@lemmy.ml on 01 Mar 06:02 next collapse

Doesn’t look like it

ArkHost@lemmy.world on 01 Mar 09:55 collapse

No, notes are plain .md files on your disk. Encryption was never the goal.

Railcar8095@lemmy.world on 01 Mar 14:33 collapse

Would like to see encryption, but I have to respect having a clear goal.

teawrecks@sopuli.xyz on 01 Mar 18:18 collapse

I think it makes sense to handle this at a lower level. After using other notes apps, the thing I want is for it to not have some arbitrary opaque file hierarchy that locks me into it. I want a plain dir of .md files, some resources they link to, and that’s it. If I want disk encryption, there are solutions for that. I can use something like LUKs to encrypt my whole drive, or even just the notes directory.

For android, afaik everything uses disk encryption by default.

The unix philosophy is do one thing really well. We don’t need a note taking app that also handles encryption.

favoredponcho@lemmy.zip on 01 Mar 18:39 collapse

In practice this app competes with StandardNotes and Notesnook. People using those might be interested in switching, but they’ll want encryption as a feature of the app.

teawrecks@sopuli.xyz on 01 Mar 19:05 collapse

I’ve not heard of those, but to me this is a competitor to the much more ubiquitous Obsidian. Which works great, and has a whole community of support, but is not open source.

Personally, I don’t need my notes app not be responsible for syncing across devices either. I already have that for other file types (photos, media, etc).

I’m not against these features being added, but this app is young, afaik it’s one person writing it, so I’d rather see their time be spent making the note taking experience as good as it can be.

I also generally wouldn’t trust one person to properly audit the security of the networking and encryption features. If I wanted those features, I’d still give the community time to peruse the codebase.

claim_arguably@lemdro.id on 01 Mar 07:45 next collapse

Is it vibecoded?

ArkHost@lemmy.world on 01 Mar 09:43 collapse

AI-assisted, yes.

currycourier@lemmy.world on 01 Mar 14:01 collapse

Assisted in what way?

rijom@lemmy.ml on 01 Mar 08:34 next collapse

Looks interesting. Any plans for an iOS version?

ArkHost@lemmy.world on 01 Mar 09:53 collapse

Definitely, yes. I’m trying to tackle them one by one.

rijom@lemmy.ml on 01 Mar 13:11 collapse

Impressive. Thank you. 👍

babka420@szmer.info on 01 Mar 20:40 collapse

In what way is this better than LogSeq?

ArkHost@lemmy.world on 01 Mar 20:44 collapse

Different tools. LogSeq is outliner tool with a database backend. HelixNotes is a markdown editor (with default WYSIWYG editor) with plain .md files on disk