/laverna

Laverna is a JavaScript note taking application with Markdown editor and encryption support. Consider it like open source alternative to Evernote.

Primary LanguageJavaScriptGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Laverna - note taking web app

Laverna is a JavaScript note-taking web application with a Markdown editor and encryption support. It's built to be an open source alternative to Evernote.

The application stores all your notes in your browser local storage spaces such as indexedDB or localStorage, which is good for security reasons, because only you have access to them.

Demo: https://laverna.cc/ OR http://laverna.github.io/static-laverna

Features

  • Markdown editor based on Pagedown
  • Manage your notes, even when you're offline
  • Secure client-side encryption
  • Synchronizes with cloud storage services (at this time only Dropbox and RemoteStorage are supported)
  • Three editing modes: distraction free, preview, and normal mode
  • WYSIWYG control buttons
  • MathJax support
  • Syntax highlighting
  • No registration required
  • Web based
  • Keybindings

Installation

You can use the application at laverna.cc, but we encourage you to install it on your own server or machine.

You can download the minified version of Laverna app from Laverna/static-laverna repository if you don't want to build it yourself:

$ git clone -b gh-pages https://github.com/Laverna/static-laverna

Installation from source

To install, do the following:

1. Clone repository:

$ git clone git@github.com:Laverna/laverna.git

2. Switch to stable version:

Please, make sure that you switched to 0.6.2 release. Master branch is not stable yet.

$ git checkout 0.6.2

3. Ensure you have the node.js platform installed. See OS-specific instructions on their website.

4. Ensure you have the bower and grunt packages installed:

$ npm install bower
$ npm install grunt
$ npm install grunt-cli

5. Install Laverna's dependencies:

$ npm install && bower install

6. Build minified version of Laverna:

$ grunt build

You can change the storage API keys in app/scripts/constants.js

Support

  1. Hit star button on github
  2. Like us on alternativeto.net
  3. Contribute

Tips:

Fund us on Gittip

Bitcoin

Security

Laverna uses the [SJCL] 1 library implementing the AES algorithm. You can review the code at:

License

Published under GNU GPL v.3

Laverna uses a lot of other libraries and each of these [libraries uses different licenses] 2.