pbek/qownnotes

QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.

QOwnNotes

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QOwnNotes is the open source notepad with Markdown support and todo list manager for GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows, that works together with Nextcloud Notes and ownCloud Notes.

You are able to write down your thoughts with QOwnNotes and edit or search for them later from your mobile device, like with Nextcloud Notes for Android or the Nextcloud / ownCloud web-service.

The notes are stored as plain text markdown files and are synced with Nextcloud's/ownCloud's file sync functionality. Of course other software, like Syncthing or Dropbox can be used too.

If you like the concept of having notes accessible in plain text files, like it is done in the Nextcloud / ownCloud notes apps to gain a maximum of freedom then QOwnNotes is for you.

Visit the project page here: QOwnNotes project page

To manage your todo lists in the web and on your mobile devices, you need to install the Tasks backend on Nextcloud or ownCloud.

To get more on-line features for your notes, like versioning and trash access, you might also want to install the QOwnNotesAPI app on your server.

To access your ownCloud notes from your mobile device you may want to get one of these:

• For Android and OwnCloud: MyOwnNotes
• For Android and Nextcloud: Notes
• For iOS: CloudNotes

On Android you could also use any sync-tool like Synchronize Ultimate or FolderSync to sync your note files and use software like neutriNotes or Markor to edit your notes.

On iOS Notebooks may also work well (syncing notes via WebDAV).

Screenshot

You can visit the QOwnNotes project page for more screenshots.

Features

• written in C++ and optimized for low resource consumption (no CPU and memory-hungry Electron app)
• multiple note folders can be used
• you can use your existing text or markdown files, no need for an import most of the time
• older versions of your notes can be restored from your Nextcloud / ownCloud server (install QOwnNotesAPI on your server)
• trashed notes can be restored from your Nextcloud / ownCloud server (install QOwnNotesAPI on your server)
  • there also is a local trash
• sub-string searching of notes is possible and search results are highlighted in the notes
• application can be operated with customizable keyboard shortcuts
• external changes of note files are watched (notes or note list are reloaded)
• differences between current note and externally changed note are shown in a dialog
• markdown highlighting of notes and a markdown preview
• spellchecking support
• tabbing support for editing notes
• scripting support and an online script repository where you can install scripts inside the application
• QOwnNotes Web Companion browser extension to a add notes from the selected text and other features
  • visit the Chrome Web Store page to install the app on Google Chrome
  • visit the Firefox Add-ons page to install the app on Mozilla Firefox
• notes are getting their name from the first line of the note text (just like in the Nextcloud / ownCloud notes web-application) and the note text files are automatically renamed, if the first line changes
  • this feature can also be turned off, and you can use any filename you like
• manage your Nextcloud / ownCloud todo lists (ownCloud tasks or Tasks Plus / Calendar Plus)
• create Nextcloud Deck cards and link to them in your notes
• encryption of notes (AES-256 is built in, or you can use custom encryption methods like Keybase.io (encryption-keybase.qml) or PGP (encryption-pgp.qml))
• dark mode theme support
• all panels can be placed wherever you want, they can even float or stack (fully dockable)
• toolbars are fully customizable
• support for freedesktop theme icons, so you can use QOwnNotes with your native desktop icons and with your favorite dark desktop theme QOwnNotes supports Freedesktop icon themes
• support for hierarchical note tagging and note subfolders
• support for sharing notes on your Nextcloud / ownCloud server
• portable mode for carrying QOwnNotes around on USB sticks
• Vim mode
• distraction free mode, full-screen mode, typewriter mode
• Evernote (now with large files) and Joplin import
• QOwnNotes is available in over 60 different languages like English, German, French, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Dutch and Spanish
  • Your help is very much appreciated to improve these translations or to translate QOwnNotes in more languages
  • Join the fun at Crowdin to help with the translations

Installation

Please visit Installation for all the ways to install QOwnNotes.

Building QOwnNotes

To get the most current features you can build the application from the source code. Download the latest source here: QOwnNotes Source on GitHub as ZIP

Alternatively you can also check out the code directly from the git repository:

git clone https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes.git -b release --depth=1
cd QOwnNotes
git submodule update --init

Then download Qt Creator, you will also need the packages qtwebsockets and qt5compat to build QOwnNotes with Qt6 (only qtwebsockets for Qt5). If you build under Windows, you want to stick to MinGw 64-bit.

Afterward open the project file src/QOwnNotes.pro and click on Build / Build Project QOwnNotes.

Or you can build it directly in your terminal:

cd src

# build binary translation files if you want another language than English
lrelease QOwnNotes.pro

# prepare build process and build the application
qmake
make -j4

Building QOwnNotes For Development

If you are going to work with the code, then you can do the following instead of the above:

cd src
qmake CONFIG+=DEV_MODE CONFIG+=debug ..
make -j4

The DEV_MODE variable enabled higher warning levels + precompiled headers.

Please feel free to contribute source code to this project, make suggestions or report troubles on the QOwnNotes issues page!

You can also visit QOwnNotes on GitHub.

Minimum software requirements

• A desktop operating system, that supports Qt
• Qt 5.5+
• gcc 4.8+

Disclaimer

This SOFTWARE PRODUCT is provided by THE PROVIDER "as is" and "with all faults." THE PROVIDER makes no representations or warranties of any kind concerning the safety, suitability, lack of viruses, inaccuracies, typographical errors, or other harmful components of this SOFTWARE PRODUCT.

There are inherent dangers in the use of any software, and you are solely responsible for determining whether this SOFTWARE PRODUCT is compatible with your equipment and other software installed on your equipment. You are also solely responsible for the protection of your equipment and backup of your data, and THE PROVIDER will not be liable for any damages you may suffer in connection with using, modifying, or distributing this SOFTWARE PRODUCT.

qownnotes's Issues

supported oc6 but how view in oc 6?

this great app are supported for oc 6, but there's and alternativa inside owncloud web insterface?

a mean there a equivalent with, against the ownnote? due ownnote does not install in oc6 so
.. so this app install in opc6 and that its ironic!

Add alphabetical sorting

Currently the list of notes is sorted by modification date/time. It would be nice and helpful to switch to an alphabetical sorting. Especially for people maintaining a systematic naming scheme to find specific notes more easily.

Add Android Support

It's possible to port a Qt 5 program to Android. Might be worth looking into.

Feature request: Global Search

It would be very useful, if I could search through full texts of all my notes in the current notes folder with one search. I have really many notes and it would be faster if I don't have to browse them...

Thanks a lot for your application!!!! :)

idea for better folderhandling in QOwnNotes

Hey qbek,
my owncloudcustomers have many notesfolders to handle with.
Look at my little selfmade picture:

The idea is, that you can change your recent folder without opening the menubar.
What do you make of it?

Greez Pi

also tried to build with QT

i get the attached screen shot im on ubuntu 14.04
and must be missing a devel package ive had to install quite a lot to get to this stage

Todo-List Calendar/Tasks Plus app

Not every task ist listed in the todo list windows for me. obviously it isn't a case of tags or other comments. one of two similar tasks is not shown.

Qt UI does not follow KDE's icon set on Fedora 23

I have breeze-dark set as my icon theme for obvious reasons, and you can see that the icon set being use is the default breeze theme.

Polish translation

Hi there!
Since I am an active user of your app, I would love to contribute, at first by making Polish translation ;) So please prepare a file to be edited. Thanks!

Best regards,
Filip

Android APP http urls / non https

Hi,
for sure we all know, wh https is better than http... but not all of us use https (because of...)...
so.. desktop app on linux and windows support to use http links.. but android app not... why?

please enable support for non https links in android app..

thx a lot

Windows version is missing toolbar icons

The Windows version is currently missing the icons in the toolbar. The two buttons are present, but have no icons. On Linux it works, so it seems a packaging issue.

I just extracted the supplied zip file as is and run the executable from it.

Build RPM

Currently you only build .deb files. It would be great if you release a RPM of your app too.

I'm running OpenSUSE 13.2 and for me it's enough to use the alien tool:

alien -r qOwnNotes.deb

Then a RPM is created. Alien is AFAIK just a perl script, but you will need tools like rpmbuild.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_%28software%29 and http://joeyh.name/code/alien/

P.s. do you know the OpenSUSE Build service? ownCloud is using it too for both the server and client. I'm not sure if it's easier than travis tough.

Annoying password prompt when editing encrypted note

Hi!
I have recently started to use built-in encrypted notes. Everything is fine till I start editing them, which is a big pain in the ass, since every minute or so the password prompt shows up and requires me to type the password in (which is not a short password...). Also, I can still read the note, so this is not protecting the content in any way (which would be highly appreciated in case of sudden afk). So, is there a possibility of enhancing that functionality, or at least a temporary solution? :)

Didn't want to sound too grumpy though, thanks for the app development! ;)

Best regards,
Filip

where to find the current version number?

Hello, Where can I find the version I am using?
I want to compare to the latest version
and know if I use the newest one

Feature Request: Provide Ubuntu PPA

Right now the software is released as stand alone .deb files. It would improve user experience to publish the software instead in a personal package archive (PPA).

This would also allow the package to be build separately for all current releases. Thereby making changes in dependencies between different Ubuntu releases manageable.

Internationalization

I would like to translate QOwnNote in french but I don't find guideline in your project. I know how to translate a Qt project but I don't know how to include it in the build system. Could you provide the basis of the internationalization ? Thanks.

Editting note in DesktopApp gives differ error

When I edit a note in QownNotes and my ownCloudClient syncs the QownNotes app popup a windows there there is difference between the server and QownNotes.

I understand why this happens, both clients want to syn the changes in the Notes folder in your Owncloud home folder.

How to fix this ?

QOwnNotes removes whitespace from saved notes

First of all, thanks for this awesome program. I am now using this as a full Evernote replacement.

I imported into the note folder some external notes that I previously wrote with Markdown in Haroopad. I can see them and edit them just fine in QOwnNotes, but when they are autosaved, all unnecessary whitespace (white lines, etc, not the space between words) is removed and the name of the note (and of the file) is set to the first line of the Markdown note. So for example, if the imported Markdown note looks like this:

## THIS IS MY NOTE

Test test

The note becomes:

## THIS IS MY NOTE
Test test

The name of the note becomes ## THIS IS MY NOTE

Is this the expected behavior? This happens for me with build 25

Global Shortcuts

It would be also nice to have global shortcuts, witch allow to create a new note from everywhere when QOwnNotes runs in background.

Feature Request: Keyword recognition

Hi,
I really like this app. Is there any chance to add a keyword syntax to add keywords to every file or even to parts in the file.

For example like: I want to talk about [[my Keyword]] in a plain text...

No icons on ubuntu 14.04

Hey,
This is most likely a Software Wetware interface issue but I don't have any icons (I am assuming there are editor icons which should be displayed)

I'm running Xfce4 on Ubuntu 14.04 (x64) and I installed 0.55 using the pre-compiled deb. Any ideas what could be causing this ?

Order in which notes are displayed

I wanted to move my wife's notes from various applications into QOwnNotes. The only way to do this was to export the various files and them create them as plain text QOwnNotes files.

The notes I created all have the heading and text like

Note 2007-11-01T18.00.01

blahblah

All this works fine, but when the notes are displayed, they are not in the expected order, which is Date/time. So my question is, what is the criteria for sorting the notes in QOwnNotes?

Thanks,

leo

too high requeriments gcc 4.8 vs 4.4 at least!

this app could not be installabe in redhat 5 and 6 and in debian squeeze or minor little lightweith ditributions that still use gcc 4.4 and 4.5

this due usage of too newer standar of C++

headers file does not permit initializations in c++ standar for gcc << 4.8:

mainwindow.h:61: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘HGMarkdownHighlighter’ with no type
mainwindow.h:61: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
mainwindow.h:63: error: ISO C++ forbids initialization of member ‘noteTextEditIsInEditMode’
mainwindow.h:63: error: making ‘noteTextEditIsInEditMode’ static
mainwindow.h:63: error: ISO C++ forbids in-class initialization of non-const static member ‘noteTextEditIsInEditMode’

How to translate it to and other language?

I want to contribute and translate the QOwnNote to Chinese.
How can I start?

dependency nvidia-331

Hello, thanks for your work, QOwnNotes_0.15_amd64.deb works fine for me.
Tried QOwnNotes_0.22_amd64.deb, but I can't install it because of dependency problem (nvidia-331 not installed).

dpkg -i QOwnNotes_0.22_amd64.deb

Sélection du paquet qownnotes précédemment désélectionné.
(Lecture de la base de données... 259483 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Préparation du dépaquetage de QOwnNotes_0.22_amd64.deb ...
Dépaquetage de qownnotes (0.22) ...
dpkg: des problèmes de dépendances empêchent la configuration de qownnotes :
qownnotes dépend de nvidia-331 ; cependant :
Le paquet nvidia-331 n'est pas installé.

apt-get install --simulate nvidia-331

Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
Package nvidia-331 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'nvidia-331' has no installation candidate

I'm using debian testing... Thanks for your help!

Crash while opening an empty note

Qownnotes (0.22 at least) seems to crash when trying to open an empty note (with file content size = 0 bytes), and does not even start if the first note of the list is an empty one.

Crash log:
qownnotes: libraries/hoedown/buffer.c :98 : hoedown_buffer_grow: the assertion « buf && buf->unit » has failed.

Empty files can be opened as long as their sizes are superior to 0 bytes.
It might be worth adding a condition/check to make it more flexible in front of such situations.

Can anyone confirm this bug ?
@pbek

Support Github Flavored markdown tables

Hi, I really like your app, and I just miss one feature.

In Github Flavored markdown you can use tables without creating them in HTML:

column | column
--- | ---
value | value

Becomes:

column	column
value	value

However this doesn’t work with your app. Can you add this?

Thanks

Support for configurable remote path per note folder

In settings > ownCloud the user seems to be required to enter a path to the "main ownCloud sync folder." The problem, however, is that I do not use ownCloud in the same way as a typical dropbox user. That is, I do not sync my entire ownCloud account using a special root directory.
ownCloud allows users to sync a preexisting local directory to an online one without requiring a special root folder. I am not sure if my explanation is understandable, but if you do understand it, is there anyway to have QOwnNotes do its thing without requiring a "main ownCloud sync folder." In essence, is there a way to complete a QOwnNote setup with all the good stuff by simply pointing to my local notes folder which is the only thing that is actually synced?

git push probleme

hello
i want to contribute in your project but i have some problems.
i am already add a " new note dialog " to give option to user to name it , i test it ,work fine .
i am newbie in git , sow when i wan to push my modification to develop branch i got error 403 no permission .
i need your help.

i want to contribute this is my first , i have some features .

error

remote: Permission to pbek/QOwnNotes.git denied to wexaadev.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes.git/': The requested

information

i already change the url in my config from "https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes.git" to "ssh://[email protected]:pbek/QOwnNotes.git"

i clone with -b develop

ToDo entries not loaded

Hi!
I have encountered a bug after setting up QOwnNotes with todolist. Although everything is connected correctly and calendars are found, opening the todolist results in not showing any entries even after reloading. In console, every entry is accompanied with this log:

QSqlQuery::value: unknown field name 'sort_priority'
store :  QSqlError("", "Parameter count mismatch", "")

Do you have any idea what is wrong with either an app or my ownCloud setup?

Best regards!
Filip

Gentoo overlay for QOwnNotes

Hi,

in your releases the folder src/libraries/qmarkdowntextedit/ is empty, but it should include https://github.com/pbek/qmarkdowntextedit

why? I'm maintain for gentoo the qownnotes ebuilds in my overlay https://github.com/internethering/hering-overlay - It is inconsistent to provide static versions of qownnotes and pull the qmarkdowntextedit sources via git at instalation time. Alternativly please provide qmarkdowntextedit releases with same release scheme like QOwnNotes too.

thanks

Sync issue with rootpath

Hi,

Great app but there is some sync issue.

Owncloud expects Notes in / but if you want to lineup your ~/Documents etc with your userpath this does not work. I have set my Notes folder in ~/Notes and made a sync for it in the ownCloud but your desktopapp still doesn't see a mainsync folder for owncloud, but I set it.

I think this always have been an ownCloud issue as if you start syncing a userdir, all stuff in it is also sycned you don't want and you need to deselect these folders right away after adding the sync. The issue is that your app actually needs the userfolder for the rootpath to work in Owncloud so to say /Notes.

Can you look into this ?

Thanks!

Ubuntu Packageing: Update dependency on libicu

The Debian/Ubuntu package currently depends on the libicu52 package. This package is gone in Ubuntu 15.10, being replaced with a new libicu55 package.

Please build separate packages for Ubuntu 15.10 and above, which depend on the new package. Since the old package is complete gone from the archive, the package is currently not installable on this Ubuntu release.
If #14 is solved first, this one should be fairly simple.

Note categorization with Notebooks/Tags

I'm not really familiar with the ownCloud notes app, so this feature request might be invalid, but do you have any plans to implement a way to categorize notes, for instance in notebooks (virtual directories) or support real filesystem directories or even implementing a tagging system? Are any of these supported by the ownCloud notes app API?

This is a nice project.

George

QOwnNotes Markdown view uses wrong encoding on WIndows

Any note containing UTF-8 letters appears broken in the Markdown view. It looks like the Markdown view uses a legacy encoding, as one UTF-8 letter is displayed as 3 random glyphs apparently interpreting each byte according to some Windows code page.

QOwnNotes cannot open notes folder in GNOME gvfs

GNOME 3 integrates Owncloud access, so there is no need to run the Linux client. The Owncloud files are available via a gvfs folder.

Currently opening that folder produces a segfault. Opening QOwnNotes again, it works.

cannot open database

hi i tried to install ive added the ppa, i get this when i try to launch see attached also in a terminal it says
QDir::mkpath: Empty or null file name

Notizen Ordner unabhängig vom Synchronisieren der gesamten Owncloud mit dem PC

Für die Funktionen Versionen und gelöschte Notizen, muss der Notizen Ordner im Owncloud Ordner lokal liegen, der komplett mit Owncloud synchronisiert wird. Da aber für die API nur der Ordnername + Pfad der in Owncloud für die Notizen verwendet wird benötigt wird, reicht es doch ein Eingabefeld in den Einstellungen zu implementieren.

File types

Please allow files extension htm to be compatible with Android app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nowsci.ownnote
and Notes on server.

monospace font customization

Is it possible to add an option to customize monospace font?

Windows 7 - Connection error message: Unable ti init SSL Context:

Hey pbek,

I've got an issue until connecting to my owncloud with your windows client:

Connection error message: Unable ti init SSL Context:

OpenSSL 1.0.2e (64bit) is installed. (from heiße.de)

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QOwnNotes Debug Information

General Info

Current Date: Fr Jan 8 08:39:53 2016
Version: 0.74
Build date: Jan 7 2016
Build number: 726
Platform: windows
Release: empty
Platform: windows
Qt Version: 5.4.2

Server Info

serverUrl: https://oc.ufz.de
appIsValid: no
connectionErrorMessage: Unable to init SSL Context:

Settings

MainWindow/geometry: <binary data>
MainWindow/menuBarGeometry: <binary data>
MainWindow/noteTextEdit.font: MS Shell Dlg 2,8.25,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
MainWindow/noteTextView.font: MS Shell Dlg 2,8.25,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
MainWindow/windowState: <binary data>
ShowSystemTray: false
SortingModeAlphabetically: false
cryptoKey: <hidden>
mainSplitterSizes: <binary data>
noteSaveIntervalTime: 10
notesPath: C:/Users/alber/testpilotcloud/Notes
notifyAllExternalModifications: false
ownCloud/localOwnCloudPath: C:/Users/alber/testCloud/Notes
ownCloud/password: <hidden>
ownCloud/serverUrl: https://oc.ufz.de
ownCloud/todoCalendarBackend: 0
ownCloud/todoCalendarEnabledList: empty
ownCloud/todoCalendarEnabledUrlList: empty
ownCloud/todoCalendarUrlList: empty
ownCloud/userName: alber
recentNoteFolders: C:/Users/alber/ownCloud/Notes,

Start in Markdown mode

It would be nice to have the possibility in Settings to make the Markdown mode as standard view .

Why the demo notes show again and again?

every time i creat a new folder
I have to remove these 3 demo again and again
it is not normal

Markdown view ignores line breaks

Opening any any note in the editor view produces correct formatting. Switching to the Markdown view for the same note, all line breaks are no longer displayed and the whole formatting is broken.

[Feature Request] Export to PDF

Hi, I'm really liking you're app 👍 .

A nice feature would be to easily export to PDF. At the moment there is no way of printing the rendered markdown.

Thanks in advance!

Where is setting data store?

I think I can just remove the folder to uninstall.
and I also search and remove the related folder in AppData.
But the next time I Unzip a newest version,
I can see my setting include the ownCloud connection information are still there.
How can I uninstall it completely?

Feature Request: Directory Categories Organization

Hi, i'm very impressed with this software. It is cool and very simple to use.

If is possible i would like to divide in directories for organize notes. I think this helps to better organize ideas.

tks
Marcos

OpenSSL installed on windows 10, Qownnotes doesn't see it ?

I have installed the minimal version of the recommended OpenSSL package but QuownNotes doesn't see it.

What do I wrong on Windows 10 ? Another machhine with OpenVPN doesn't complain and is OK.

User-defined font settings

It would be nice to let users define the fonts for the editor/viewer. The current font size is too small.

database connection

Hi. By starting the application, I get following error: unable to establish a database connection. This application needs SQLite support. I'm on MINT 17.3. Thanks.