I use GitHub's gollum [1] git-based markdown-supporting Wiki for pretty much this. It's easy to add a basic username / password protection. I run it on a Digital Ocean instance that had some capacity left over and have a cronjob push to a private bitbucket repo every 30 minutes for backup. I don't have to create notebooks and can use GitHub-flavored markdown (or other any syntax gollum supports).

That said, I like basic idea of extending magpie with a PDF scraper and email. Maybe it would spare some energy to fork gollum and add extension to it to make it more Evernote-like?

[1]: https://github.com/gollum/gollum

If you like a native app (OSX, iOS and Windows), take a look at http://www.notebooksapp.com

It's very clean, allows markdown, and the best feature is that it keeps your content as files on disk, so even if you stop using the app, you still got your content (not hidden away in a database). Plus you can easily use dropbox, rsync or whatever to sync it. It's a really great app.

I mostly use Evernote for clipping webpages for later reference (images, pdfs etc). I still haven't found quite an easy to use replacement. Most of the evernote replacements seem to concentrate only on text/lists.

Cool project, looks fun.

Just a note, any 'Evernote' replacement that uses any sort of markdown or markup language is not a true replacement, but an 'Evernote inspired' project. Most people don't want to learn markup languages. Rich text editors are the well established norm and any true Evernote replacement needs to have one.

It would be lovely to have this running on top of Camlistore, rather than git. A little more automatic, linkable, etc.

> I love Evernote, but I no longer trust my data to cloud providers.

Give https://turtl.it a shot as well. Aims to solve this very problem: Evernote with data privacy. (Disclaimer, I built it. Disclaimer2: not nearly as advanced as Evernote).

That said, Magpie looks really cool.

The paragraph "What isn’t magpie?" clearly lists why magpie is NOT an Evernote replacement, yet on the top of the page it says "Git-backed Evernote replacement".

Stop using the word 'replacement' when in actuality you mean 'clone (wip)'

It doesn't resolve your fear of cloud providers, but Simplenote (http://simplenote.com/) is an awesome, simple Evernote replacer. Especially is you trust the folks at Automattic!

Be careful with the demo! I noticed somebody creating "notes" w/ XSS (albeit just an alert) while I was playing with it.

Seems "Magpie" is a common name for Git-related projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7378345

I'd love some screenshots in the docs.

I could not find a demo. It would help a lot if there was a working demo.

So, the Magpie creator no longer trusts cloud providers, yet the software stores data on github. You know that record scratch sound? I think I just heard that.

Yes, I know one could configure one's own github repo and make it accessible, etc. I know that cloud storage is about as reliable as that shaky cousin who's always borrowing "a few bucks for beer, man."

It seems like everyone is attacking the wrong problem. The problem is not the client, that's just a UI/UX issue that's never going to be resolved because, hey, I hate what you like and vice-versa.

Can someone please create a more reliable back-end so we can stop saying things like "I hate cloud providers"? I hate them, too, but I'm not going to redesign the part where the problem ain't.