Benotes

An open source self hosted web app for your notes and bookmarks side by side.

This project is currently in Beta. You may encounter bugs or errors.

Features

• URLs are automatically saved with an image, title and description
• supports both markdown and a rich text editor
• can be installed as a PWA on your mobile devices (and desktop)
• share content via this app (if installed as an PWA and supported by your browser)
• collections can be shared via a public available URL
• links can be instantly pasted as new posts
• can be hosted almost anywhere thanks to its use of the lightweight Lumen framework and well supported PHP language
• works with and without a persistent storage layer (both filesystem and S3 are supported)
• can also be hosted via Docker or on Heroku
• protect your data with daily backups

Installation & Upgrade

Currently their are three options for you to choose from:

• Normal classical way
• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Heroku (not free anymore)

Additional Features

• Backups
• Bookmarklet

Issues

Feel free to contact me if you need any help or open an issue or a discussion or join the subreddit.

Q: Having trouble with reordering posts ?

Use this command in order to fix it.

php artisan fix-position

or if you have already installed newer php versions on your system:

/usr/bin/php7.4 artisan fix-position

Rest API

Further information can be found here: Rest API Documentation