1.1 Why

Do you've notes on your computer or in a cloud application ? During years, I've used Evernote and was happy with. But, end 2016, the free version was more restrictive than ever (only two devices were allowed) and by the end of the year, an announcement was made : a few (how many?) employees of Evernote will be able to read customer's notes. With this new changes, I've taken my decision : my notes are my own property and I don't want to other people can access to them. Evernote is a commercial entreprise and it was time to migrate to an another system. But which one ?

After having tried a few ones and because I'm a coder, my decision was quickly made : I'll create my own system and share it for free for anyone who can be interested.

My needs were :

• I wish a very fast system (no need to connect to an adminstration interface, just put a file in a folder and that's it),
• Simplicity (only one screen, no hidden feature),
• Flexible (notes are taken in the markdown language (files with .md as extension)),
• Scalable (i.e. being able to do more with the notes),
• Opened (don't want proprietary format, notes should be readable in a lot of programs,
• Configurable (by using a settings.jsonfile, allow the user to define his own parameters),
• Severall outputs type i.e. being able to display a note as an HTML page, a PDF one or even a slideshow,
• And, thanks to the great Open Source community, using existing libraries to do more with very few effort.

This current MarkNotes application was born.