Silicon Notes
Silicon Notes is a self-hosted note-taking tool that provides web-based personal knowledge base with few frills.
Overview
Silicon Notes, a web-based personal knowledge base with few frills Silicon Notes, a web-based personal knowledge base with few frills - cu/silicon The project has 265 GitHub stars and is licensed under NOASSERTION.
Getting Started
Source: GitHub README
Currently only a handful of languages are enabled for syntax highlighting, if
you want to edit the list to suit your needs, you can edit
`silicon/static/js/edit.js`. You can find a list of supported lanauges
[here](https://codemirror.net/mode/).
To disable CodeMirror and use a regular textarea instead, add the following to
your `.env` file or environment:
Normalized Features
Source: tool-features-normalized.json
docker, docker compose, pip, plugins, sqlite.
Deploy
Features
Integrations & APIs
- Plugin / Extension System
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