10mo ago

Web based markdown gui

I am setting up my notes approach which is using dedicated apps on my devices plus syncthing.

I tried lots of tools like Joplin obsidian etc but are too overkill or had something I don't like.

So I am using markor on android and another dedicated app on Linux and so on.

I would like to add also a web app to edit the MD files directly on my server when I don't have any way to install syncthing or an editor app.

The web GUI would need to list the MD files local on the server and let me edit/view/save them. Upload and download is not required as I already have that setup via filebrowser.

Any hints?

Edit: to be clear, i am not looking for an IDE or anything fancy, i only need to edit some notes online on my server. I do not want to spin containers or deploy full VS solutions just for this, all i need is a web gui editor for MD with the capability to load files on the server

Second edit: i ended up selfhosting Silverbullet.md which made my day. Exactly what i was looking for, even more than that. Thanks all!

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Check out Silver Bullet.
- This looks amazing. I’m already using obsidian but if I’d found this first I probably would have started here.
- Yes! that did it! Great piece of tool!

I don't know any lightweight options, but as VS-Code was suggested, I'd like to suggest Hedgedoc too.
- Yeah, looks interesting but way too overkill i guess?

Huge fan of logseq
- does it have a self-hosted web part? i can't find it. The website only let me download a fuckton 170mb appimage for linux
  
  https://github.com/logseq/logseq/blob/master/docs/docker-web-app-guide.md
  
  There is a web version i beleive but they have support for basicly all platforms nativly.
  
  You should be able to download via flathub too. It is self contained software but you can write to a Google or Dropbox directory and let that synch the files. I’m really a fan of logseq as well.

Maybe look into silverbullet?
- Silverbullet looks pretty easy to set up. Can you change the font and such it uses?
  
  Yes.
- Yes! ended up using silverbullet.md. Just amazing.

Maybe not the best option, but can you use FileBrowser for that as well?
- Cool! I didn't noticed you could edit files from within it, but yes, that's a cool option as well. Silverbullet.md turned out to be more interesting though, so i have self hosted it too.

Nextcloud notes
- Nah, moving away from NextCloud, it worked fine, but again overkill only for this
  
  Then just use syncthing

How about using code-server and pointing it to your markdown folder? While it's a code editor, it also has built-in markdown preview. Installation is also easy and doesn't require docker.

You could try code-server? I use it daily to edit my markdown files.
https://github.com/coder/code-server
- Well, while much interesting indeed, i am not ready to install VSCode itself just for notes. I would prefer not to have the option to edit them online then.

Maybe CodiMD/HackMD: https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd

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