Autosaving Scratchpad. A simple but smart note-taking app
Made by @kilianvalkhof
Other projects:
FromScratch A simple but smart note-taking app
FromScratch is a little app that you can use as a quick note taking or todo app.
Shortcuts
Download
Recent downloads for macOS, Windows and Linux available on https://fromscratch.rocks
For Arch users, FromScratch is available on AUR
For macOS, you can also install FromScratch via Homebrew: $ brew cask install fromscratch
Installation
# Download from git git clone https://github.com/kilian/fromscratch.gitCommand Line ArgumentsInstall dependencies
cd fromscratch && npm install
build and run
npm start
or run dev version
npm run dev
Portable Mode
--portable
Lets you store all the files FromScratch generates in a specified location, such as a USB-stick or other portable storage device. In this mode both the configuration files as well as your text content will be stored in a "userdata" directory alongside the FromScratch executable, or when given a directory as an argument, will store the files there.
You can also use this to store the FromScratch configuration files, and the text content, in a synced cloud storage folder.
# run FromScratch in portable mode, saving data in application directory.
fromscratch --portable
# run FromScratch in portable mode, saving data in custom directory.
fromscratch --portable ~/fromscratch_data
help
-h, --help
Prints help information
FAQ
Where is my data saved?
Your data is saved in a plain text file content.txt. On Mac and Linux, this file is saved in ~/.fromscratch. On Windows this file is saved in a directory called ".fromscratch" in your userprofile directory.
Can my data be saved in an alternate directory?
Yes! See the portable mode section under the Command Line Arguments heading above.
Credits
FromScratch is built upon these open source projects: Electron, React, Fira Code, CodeMirror and Electron-react-boilerplate.
Thanks to @bittersweet for helping me set up IPC to work around a particularly nasty bug, @chentsulin for the electron-react-boilerplate, and @ctrauma for the portable bits.
Twice a month we will interview people behind open source businesses. We will talk about how they are building a business on top of open source projects.
We'll never share your email with anyone else.