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 v0.1 has been released. Binaries:

• Linux: leanote-linux-v0.1.bin.tar.gz
• MacOS X: leanote-mac-v0.1.bin.tar.gz

3.2. Install MongoDB

Leanote is written in go using revel and MongoDB. Thus, you need to first install MongoDB.

For more tips please have a look at our wiki

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

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

3.5. Run leanote

$> cd PATH_TO_LEANOTE/bin
$> sudo sh run.sh

4. How to develop leanote

For more tips please see our wiki

Leanote is a app based on revel, so if you want to work on leanote, you should be familar with revel.

4.1 Install golang

Install golang and set the GOPATH environment variable

4.2 Install revel

$> go get github.com/revel/revel
$> go get github.com/revel/cmd/revel

4.3 Get leanote

$> go get github.com/leanote/leanote/app

4.4 Build/Run leanote via revel

$> cp conf/app.conf-default conf/app.conf
$> cp conf/routes-default conf/routes

Now you can modify the leanote source and build/run using revel

$> revel run github.com/leanote/leanote

You are welcome to join us and contribute code to leanote! Thanks.

Discussion

leanote google group