Notea

Self-hosted note-taking app stored on S3.

Features

• One-click deploy to Vercel/Netlify or deploy to host with Docker
• Support storage in Amazon S3, MinIO, Aliyun OSS, etc
• Notion-like markdown editor

Roadmap

• Backlinks #39
• Link embedding (YouTube, Github Gist, Google Docs, etc.)
• Editing offline #14
• Note versioning #49
• File upload

Quickstart

1. Fork repo. It is recommended to install the Pull app for automatic synchronization.
2. Choose Storage and manually create bucket.
3. Deploy App

Deploy Vercel (Recommended)

Click https://vercel.com/new to deploy your fork repo.

Netlify

Click https://app.netlify.com/start to deploy your fork repo.

Docker

docker run -d \
  --name notea \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -e STORE_ACCESS_KEY=Q3AM3UQ867SPQQA43P2F \
  -e STORE_SECRET_KEY=zuf+tfteSlswRu7BJ86wekitnifILbZam1KYY3TG \
  -e STORE_BUCKET=notea \
  -e STORE_END_POINT=http://play.minio.io \
  -e STORE_FORCE_PATH_STYLE=true \
  -e PASSWORD=notea \
  # -e COOKIE_SECURE=false \ # This is required on non-https sites
  cinwell/notea

You can use watchtower to keep the latest version.

docker run -d \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  containrrr/watchtower -c notea

If you are looking for MinIO + Notea docker configuration check this

Kubernetes Helm Chart

Use helm chart to deploy to Kubernetes via Helm.

Storage

Configure environment variables according to storage service.

MinIO

.env

STORE_ACCESS_KEY=
STORE_SECRET_KEY=
STORE_BUCKET=notea
STORE_END_POINT=http://localhost:9000


Required

STORE_FORCE_PATH_STYLE=true
PASSWORD=notea

.env

STORE_ACCESS_KEY=
STORE_SECRET_KEY=
STORE_BUCKET=notea
STORE_REGION=us-east-1
PASSWORD=notea

.env

STORE_ACCESS_KEY=
STORE_SECRET_KEY=
STORE_BUCKET=notea
STORE_END_POINT=https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com
STORE_REGION=oss-cn-hangzhou
PASSWORD=notea

.env

STORE_ACCESS_KEY=
STORE_SECRET_KEY=
STORE_BUCKET=notea # create the bucket first
STORE_END_POINT=https://cos.ap-guangzhou.myqcloud.com
STORE_REGION=ap-guangzhou
PASSWORD=notea

.env

STORE_ACCESS_KEY=
STORE_SECRET_KEY=
STORE_END_POINT=https://nampespace.compat.objectstorage.ap-chuncheon-1.oraclecloud.com
STORE_FORCE_PATH_STYLE=true
STORE_BUCKET=bucketname
STORE_REGION=ap-chuncheon-1
PASSWORD=notea


bucketname，namespace and region “ap-chuncheon-1” need check your profile and https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/api/#/en/s3objectstorage/20160918/

Exoscale

.env

STORE_ACCESS_KEY=
STORE_SECRET_KEY=
STORE_BUCKET=notea # create the bucket first
STORE_END_POINT=https://sos-de-fra-1.exo.io
STORE_REGION=de-fra-1
STORE_FORCE_PATH_STYLE=true
PASSWORD=notea

.env

STORE_ACCESS_KEY=
STORE_SECRET_KEY=
STORE_BUCKET=notea
STORE_END_POINT=
STORE_REGION=us-east-1
PASSWORD=notea


The parameter of STORE_END_POINT is the S3 API link (https://...) stored in r2

Other services that support the s3 protocol can also be used. Contribution examples are welcome.

Environment variables

Name Description Default Optional Required

PASSWORD Password to login to the app

true

STORE_ACCESS_KEY AccessKey

true

STORE_SECRET_KEY SecretKey

true

STORE_BUCKET Bucket

true

STORE_END_POINT Host name or an IP address.

STORE_REGION region us-east-1

STORE_FORCE_PATH_STYLE Whether to force path style URLs for S3 objects false

STORE_PREFIX Storage path prefix ''

COOKIE_SECURE Only works under https: scheme If the website is not https, you may not be able to log in, and you need to set it to false

true

BASE_URL The domain of the website, used for SEO

DISABLE_PASSWORD Disable password protection. This means that you need to implement authentication on the server yourself, but the route /share/:id needs to be accessible anonymously, if you need share page. #31

false

DIRECT_RESPONSE_ATTACHMENT By default, requesting attachment links will redirect to S3 URL, Set to true to directly output attachments from the notea services. #28

false

Development

docker-compose up -d
yarn dev

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (AKA Amazon S3). TLDR: Read and write stored files or pictures through RESTful API.
• MinIO: a self-hosted S3. Install by docker: docker run -p 9000:9000 minio/minio server /data

Why not use Database?

Personally speaking, the data stored in Notea is mainly files (such as text or pictures) but the database is not good at reading and writing these type of files; S3 can generate a signed URL to access the remote files, but the database cannot do it.

Why not use filesystem storage?

There are many excellent offline note-taking apps supporting filesystem storage available. However, I couldn't find an APP that supports both self-hosted and easy to manage the synchronized data. The purpose of this project is to mitigate the above pain-point.

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LICENSE

MIT