Questions about this application

[Ahmed-E-86]

I did extensive research, and I found that this application is what suitable for my needs, because it supports offline storage, and Supports Linux at the same time, but I am little confused about this application, so I will ask some question, and I hope people here can help me figuring things out.

First: I don't know where the application saves the local storage, I tried to search my computer by the name of the storage, and I found nothing!

Second: The file menu only contains the command: Quit, so I am confused about: how can I import external notes?! and how can export my local storage?!

Third: The cloud storage has two options, GitHub, and entering an email to register a new account for this application, but I heard that this application supports OneDrive, and Google Drive. Did that change?

Fourth: the help menu contains the command: Learn more which redirects me the official website, and not a help guide!

Fifth: the help menu doesn't contain About which can be found in every application to give a little details about this application like the current version, the company name/developer name, the copyrights, and the license.

Sorry for asking a lot of questions, and I hope that my questions are reasonable.

[arcturus140]

because it supports offline storage, and Supports Linux at the same time

Yes, Boostnote meets all requirements

1. notes are stored in plain text as cson files in your storage location. Add a storage location in your preferences.

2. the file menu contains commands for note manipulation, import, export, print and preferences

3. the application does not directly support google drive, dropbox, etc but you can use them to synchronize your notes. Be aware that conflicts may occur.

4. You are correct, the help menu is indeed not helpful at all. You can find the Wiki for Boostnote here. Adding it to the help menu is a very good idea, I'll make a feature request for it: Add the Wiki to the help menu BoostNote-Legacy#3435

A fresh install has the Getting Started Note which is an excellent resource to check out what Boostnote has to offer.

5. the about has been added to the menu since version 0.12.0

[Ahmed-E-86]

1.notes are stored in plain text as cson files in your storage location. Add a storage location in your preferences.

I can't find any option inside Preferences to add a storage, or any option to change the location of local storage, but I found Import inside Preference which gives me the option to import .cson file a storage that I created before.

2.the file menu contains commands for note manipulation, import, export, print and preferences.

Here is a screenshot that previews the file menu:

It contains only Quit, and nothing more!

5. the about has been added to the menu since version 0.12.0

I found About inside Preferences, and that is the last place I thought it could be there!

[arcturus140]

I am not familiar with Boost Note. To my knowledge, local storage is not supported yet, but I am not up to date with development.

I recommend you to use Boostnote, instead. I think it better fits your requirements, at least for the time being.

[Ahmed-E-86]

I am not familiar with Boostnote.next. To my knowledge, local storage is not supported yet, but I am not up to date with development.

I recommend you to use Boostnote, instead. I think it better fits your requirements, at least for the time being.

That one is better, and it has .deb files instead of .AppImage files which integrates nicely with my OS. Thanks for you help.

[RyanGreenup]

Also worth mentioning with Boostnote v14 (as opposed to Boost-Note), the files are saved inside a .cson, you can edit that with vim/emacs/VScode just as if it were markdown if you’re careful and escape characters as necessary, (e.g. $\LaTeX$ would be $\LaTeX$).

There’s also a py script here that will export it the .cson to md

If you really want raw MD files what I’d recommend is using Notable, it’s no longer OSS, but older versions are and the developer has expressed intent to keep it free from vender lock in.
You can combine this with vim, a search plugin and a preview plugin (or you could use a browser extension) and you’re basically set; for exporting, I’d recommend MkDocs because it’s so simple and to access the files on mobile you could use iawriter and a git app

Boostnote is simpler and more aesthetically pleasing, but not having access to the actual MD can be a pain, so it’s really a matter of what features you need.

[arcturus140]

I just gave Boost Note a try and it looks great! Local storage is supported, too. You can store your notes offline on your computer.