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## 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](https://github.com/leanote/leanote/releases/download/0.3/leanote-linux-v0.3.bin.tar.gz)
* MacOS X: [leanote-mac-v0.3.bin.tar.gz](https://github.com/leanote/leanote/releases/download/0.3/leanote-mac-v0.3.bin.tar.gz)
### 3.2. Install MongoDB
Leanote is written in go using [revel](https://revel.github.io/) and [MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.org). Thus, you need to first install MongoDB.
For more tips please have a look at [our wiki](https://github.com/leanote/leanote/wiki/Install-Mongodb)
### 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**
```Shell
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](https://revel.github.io/)
### 3.5. Run leanote
```
$> cd PATH_TO_LEANOTE/bin
$> sudo sh run.sh
```
## 4. How to develop leanote
Please see [How-to-develop-leanote](https://github.com/leanote/leanote/wiki/How-to-develop-leanote)
## Discussion
[leanote google group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/leanote)