Abandoned.
warrickbayman opened this issue · comments
Quiver has been abandoned by @ylian. It's a pity because there really isn't anything that works in quite the same way. And since it's a paid-for app, this is even more frustrating. If anyone finds anything that is similar, I'd love to know. I'm using Notion at the moment, but it's not really the same thing.
I'm using Inkdrop instead of Quiver.
My major issues of quiver were mobile supporing and customizing by a plugin.
Migration tool: pi-chan/import-quiver
I'm using Inkdrop instead of Quiver.
My major issues of quiver were mobile supporing and customizing by a plugin.Migration tool: pi-chan/import-quiver
Thanks for this. I somehow missed Inkdrop completely. Seems great so far.
@xncbot I tried Joplin. It's not bad, but I just wasn't hooked. But I'll give it another go. Thanks.
If all you want is a Markdown editor, then MacDown is very good. It's simplistic and doesn't have close to the feature set of Quiver, but I find it does Markdown really well. And open source.
Second Joplin, it's actively developed, has a mobile client and encryption It's not a native app, so not as lightweight as Quiver.
However... the main dev is trying to spin up a commercial business hosting Joplin... and we know how that ends. But at least it's fully open source, so a fork could be maintained.
Another couple to consider - although not like Quiver - more like 'standard' markdown editors are:
https://fsnot.es/
https://www.mweb.im/
If you check ylian's github page you will find out that quiver is NOT abandoned and ylian has been constantly working on it at all time. ylian mentioned in the pinned post that there are a lot of rough edges to shape up and challenges to tackle. Let's give ylian some faith and time for it.
Perhaps @ylian himself would like to comment on the current status?
Yes, I believe that the developer is working hard on next version. Been a developer myself, I can understand sometimes a project can feel like labour of love and thus willing to spend time and life working on it.
I just keep faith that one day he is able to deliver it, I yet to find alternative like Quiver, and there is a genius in using json as storage with well-designed structure for note-taking desktop app, because if one know how to harness that data format, they can do amazing stuff with it.
I was considering buying Quiver as an alternative to the now unusuable Evernote. The features seem nice but @ylian's lack of response makes me concerned about future support bug-fixes. I guess I'll wait until there's some official comment on the future of the project.
iskandr ,
yes , I think you should wait till next version . Even though this version is usable, there still area I thought could be improved (eg better search, warning before convert html cell to text cell wise losing formatting and image, table support in html, show Note title in window title)
I'm using Inkdrop instead of Quiver. My major issues of quiver were mobile supporing and customizing by a plugin.
Migration tool: pi-chan/import-quiver
Thank you for mentioning InkDrop.
InkDrop would almost work although the security is a non-starter for me. Either one uses their servers to sync data, trusting their encryption does as it says, or one has to set up one’s own CouchDB server, which probably is more risky than trusting their servers due to having to do maintenance and risk of misconfiguration.
Joplin deserve a try. Open source, free, sync options, markdown.
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I transfered my notes from quiver to Joplin about a year ago (still waiting for quiver's new version), but joplin has bug in searching. It misses some content when I search. Searching is the most important to me as a programmer.
So I am still looking and waiting.
maybe open source is the answer.
free for basics use，pay for advanced futures.
If you check ylian's github page you will find out that quiver is NOT abandoned and ylian has been constantly working on it at all time.
@yuxiao-qin Uh, not really. He has been working all the time but NOT on Quiver. Quiver is closed source and this github repo is only for issue tracking. So you wouldn't see it here anyway.
In fact, the Quiver project doesn't even show up on his list of repositories: https://github.com/ylian?tab=repositories
His last comment on an issue was 2019: https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/issues?q=commenter%3Aylian
Face the facts, Quiver is an abandoned project. And if you have a lot of carefully curated hierarchical tagged notes with embedded images, you are, potentially, one MacOS update away from your valuable offline brain vaporizing into the aether.
Call To Action: Save others from our fate
- Open the App Store
- Find the Quiver app
- Give a 1 star review as Abandoned
- Click on any "abandoned" reviews and click Helpful
If anyone knows of a reliable way get a large hierarchical Quiver library imported into another tool, please share. I've tried a couple options and nothing has worked for this situation.
BTW I have used Joplin (open source) but I haven't scaled it up to a large body of notes.