1. Introduction
Leanote, your own cloud note.
Some Features
- Knowledge: Manage your knowledge in leanote. leanote contains the tinymce editor and a markdown editor, just enjoy yourself writing.
- Share: Share your knowledge with your friends in leanote. You can invite your friends to join your notepad in the cloud so you can share knowledge.
- Cooperation: Collaborate with friends to improve your skills.
- Blog: Publish your knowledge and make leanote your blog.
2. Why we created leanote
To be honest, our inspiration comes from Evernote. We use Evernote to manage our knowledge everyday. But we find that:
- Evernote's editor can't meet our needs, it does not have document navigation, it does not render code properly (as a programmer, syntax highlighted code rendering is a basic need), it cannot resize images and so forth
- We like markdown, but Evernote does not support it.
- We want to share our knowledge, so all of us have our blogs (e.g. on Wordpress) and our Evernote accounts, but why can not those two be one!
- ......
3. How to install leanote
3.1. Download leanote
Leanote V0.3 has been released. Binaries:
- Linux: leanote-linux-v0.3.bin.tar.gz
- MacOS X: leanote-mac-v0.3.bin.tar.gz
3.2. Install MongoDB
Leanote is written in go using revel and MongoDB. Thus, you need to first install MongoDB.
For more tips please have a look at our wiki
3.3. Import initial MongoDB data
The mongodb data is in [PATH_TO_LEANOTE]/mongodb_backup/leanote_install_data
$> mongorestore -h localhost -d leanote --directoryperdb PATH_TO_LEANOTE/mongodb_backup/leanote_install_data
The initial database contains two users:
user1 username: leanote, password: abc123
user2 username: admin, password: abc123
3.4. Configuration
Modify [PATH_TO_LEANOTE]/conf/app.conf. Available configuration options are:
mongodb required
db.host=localhost
db.port=27017
db.dbname=leanote
db.username=
db.password=
http.port
Default is 80
site.url
Default is http://localhost, you must edit this when hosting leanote anywhere else. This is used when uploading images.
email
For password recovery mails
adminUsername
Default is admin. The landing page is the admin user's blog.
For more infomation please see app/app.conf and the revel manuals
3.5. Run leanote
$> cd PATH_TO_LEANOTE/bin
$> sudo sh run.sh
4. How to develop leanote
Please see How-to-develop-leanote