Notable is most definitely not an Evernote clone, which is what I'm coming from as well. I'm comparing Notable with Boostnote in the comparison table [1] in the readme, you might want to give that a look.
IMHO Notable is better than Boostnote for the following main reasons:
- It supports attachments, sooner or later you are going to need to add an image or pdf to a note. The only way of doing that with Boostnote is linking to the absolute-path of that file, which is not portable nor ergonomic.
- Notes are stored as plain Markdown files, you can also edit them with your editor of choice. For instance I can use the fancy Markdown plugins I have in my editor easily.
- Multi-note editing is fully supported, from starring/tagging multiple notes at once to performing a regex search & replace across your notes. Boostnote has very limited multi-editing capabilities, and while you could technically perform a search & replace with Boostnote's notes too they are stored in .cson, which complicates things.
- Boostnote is too ugly for me. This may not matter for you but it matters for me.
- Boostnote can't import Evernote's .enex files. Notable can and it preserves both tags and attachments.
- Boostnote isn't keyboard friendly. I don't like the dual pane editor, but if I disable it there's no (documented?) shortcut for switching between editing and preview mode.
The biggest difference IMHO is that notes in Notable are just Markdown files, so I can open them in any Markdown editor and use all its features. One can't do this with Boostnote because they are wrapping the note in .cson for adding some metadata (Notable uses Markdown front matter instead).
> I've been searching for an open source project to contribute to as well so this could very well be it.
IMHO Notable is better than Boostnote for the following main reasons:
- It supports attachments, sooner or later you are going to need to add an image or pdf to a note. The only way of doing that with Boostnote is linking to the absolute-path of that file, which is not portable nor ergonomic.
- Notes are stored as plain Markdown files, you can also edit them with your editor of choice. For instance I can use the fancy Markdown plugins I have in my editor easily.
- Multi-note editing is fully supported, from starring/tagging multiple notes at once to performing a regex search & replace across your notes. Boostnote has very limited multi-editing capabilities, and while you could technically perform a search & replace with Boostnote's notes too they are stored in .cson, which complicates things.
- Boostnote is too ugly for me. This may not matter for you but it matters for me.
- Boostnote can't import Evernote's .enex files. Notable can and it preserves both tags and attachments.
- Boostnote isn't keyboard friendly. I don't like the dual pane editor, but if I disable it there's no (documented?) shortcut for switching between editing and preview mode.
[1] https://github.com/fabiospampinato/notable#comparison