Pensieve

Notes saved in your private Github repository.

Features

• Configurable for settings and shortcuts (CMD+,)
• use ?repo= query parameter to change the private Github (default pensieve-data).
• Installable from Chrome. This is required for some shortcuts to work
• Works offline for notes opened in the past

Organisation

• First line of the file is the filename
• Folders are created by adding slash (/) to the filename
• Change syntax highlighting by adding extension to the filename
• Sorted by creation date
• Star notes you want always at the top

Writing

• Markdown enabled by default
• Autosave after 5 seconds of inactivity
• History of changes visible in Github as commits
• Same text editor as VS Code (Monaco editor) which includes
  • Automatic identation
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Multiple cursors
  • Typescript validation
• Convert regex matches into links. Default settings converts [user/repo] into a Github link
• Custom highlighting with regex. Default settings show strikethrough and @user in different colors

Caveats

• When switching devices notes list is not updated, refresh the page to force update
• Opening a note takes a few seconds on mobile for unknown reason

Changelog

1.1 Custom highlighting

Pensieve 1.1 release has been successful with new features like

• [custom/links]
• custom highlighting as strikethrough or @username
• all based on RegExp and documented by example in Settings [CMD+,]

After a year of usage Pensieve has generated in my private repository:

• 6500 commits
• 16Mb of data of which
  • one third is actual notes content
  • another third is metadata
  • and the remaining third is git files containing EVERY CHANGE I MADE SINCE I STARTED USING THIS TOOL. DID I MENTION ONLY YOU CONTROL YOUR DATA IN THIS APPLICATION??? you and GitHub. You're welcome. Have a nice day.

~/pensieve-notes main > du -sh . .* *
 16M    .
5.2M    .git
4.8M    meta
5.5M    note
4.0K    settings.json
4.0K    shortcuts.json