Jotter

Jotter is a lightweight, no database, powerful web notebook that lets you create and manage notes online safely, quickly & easily.

See the demo or install it yourself!

Features

• Markdown and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors
• organize notes hierarchically
• manage as many notebooks as you want
• multi-user support (currently, notebooks can't be shared between users)
• no DBMS needed. Everything is stored in flat files (JSON & Markdown)

Requirements

• PHP 5.3 or above
• write access to the sub-directory data/

Install

New install

1. Upload it (or git clone it) on your server (let's say in /var/www/jotter)
2. Go to the corresponding URL (lets say http://www.example.com/jotter)

Update

Currently the update is quite easy:

1. (optional) backup your data/ directory up
2. just overwrite app files with latest version ((or git pull it)
3. That's all, folks!

TODO

• Next version:
  • remember folded/unfolded folder (will change the save format)
• Following ones:
  • Trash bin for deleted notes
  • Keep last N versions of each note and restore it on demand
  • Option to make some notes/notebooks publicly accessible
• Not sure if possible:
  • Sync API (à la Simplenotes?) for desktop/mobile apps
  • Share notebooks between users & handle concurrent edit (à la Etherpad?)
  • Patch the WYSIWYG and Markdown libraries to enhance behavior and avoid most common rendering problems

Version History

• v0.4 (2014-03-20)
  • major Javascript rewrite
  • introduced markdown editor (with help page)
  • fixed wysiyg editor issues
  • display version number
  • dropdown for changing notebook now always accessible
  • add note/directory now accessible from contextual menu
  • fixed save shortcut not always working in Firefox
• v0.3 (2013-11-28)
  • drag & drop to move notes/directories within a notebook
• v0.2 (2013-11-22)
  • fold/unfold directories (not yet saved on server)
  • moved/changed some buttons for better ergonomics
  • always keep toolbar visible
  • change notebook without returning to homepage
  • interactive source code display (whitout base64 code)
  • image button implemented
  • prefill link with 'http://'
  • FIX random sort order
  • other minor fixes and tweaks
• v0.1 (2013-11-18)
  • initial version

License

Jotter is a work by Yosko, all rights reserved.

It is licensed under the GNU LGPL.

Dependencies

Everything you need to make Jotter work is already on this repository. It includes:

• PHP Markdown
• HTML To Markdown for PHP, under the MIT license.
• YosLogin, under the GNU LGPL license. This library also includes:
  • Secure-random-bytes-in-PHP, under the New BSD license.
• bootstrap-wysiwyg, under the MIT license. This library also includes:
  • jQuery Hotkeys, under the MIT & GPL2 licenses.
  • jQuery, under the MIT license.
  • Bootstrap.js, under Apache License v2.0.