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I don't think Google Keep is anywhere near a competitor of Evernote. Keep is a different class of application. More of a to do list or quick note manager. Whereas evernote is a full blown digital notebook with an extensive feature list. Its like comparing Microsoft One Note to the iPhone notepad.

Right?


I love it. Your implementation is exactly what I think these apps should be: simple, extreme minimalism of UI, and light weight.


Sooooo.... sort of like Google Keep...?


thx mate, that was my intention. keep it simple without sign up




Thanks, didn't realize when I posted it that urls aren't linkified in submission text.


Anand, you beautiful, brilliant bastard. That site looks awesome beyond compare. Awesome job.


Working on a very simple web dashboard for monitoring linux server stats: http://linuxdash.com


Absolutely. We recently created a multi-server branch for linux-dash. It just began but the goal is exactly what you stated: single, consolidated Linux-dash page for N servers with the same drop-in installation capability.


What's the progress like? Are you strapped for time? If you need help funding this specific aspect, I would be interested in fixed-rate contract work. Email in profile.


A recent commit messed up mobile. Sucks that it happened right before I posted.

Will address it soon.


There are actually quite a few github users who have ported the project to Go, Ruby, Python, etc. I believe there already exists a popular java based alternative.

Node would be awesome for a project like this. Especially with Gulp. If someone hasn't already built it, I would love to.


Node would be overkill for a project like this, though. It's a lot to install, manage, compile, etc. just for a simple, relatively static dashboard that just collects basic stats, especially if your package manager doesn't have v8 and node in its repos.

I feel as though the great thing about this project is its drop-in-ness (which is difficult to provide without PHP) and its flexibility; for example, I can put this on a server behind Apache, running PHP, and set up LDAP authentication to restrict access to it. With Node, that's a huge amount more work for little to no gain (since I would probably just put it behind Apache anyway).

Just my two cents, but as much as I find PHP distasteful, it really does feel like the best tool for the niche the tool currently serves.

A simple Python version that could serve out JSON data and a nice frontend that could collect and display it all (in groups) would be a nice way of having essentially a live munin graph. That would be cool.


Do you have a link for the python version?


You are absolutely on point. I am currently cleaning up the code base and trying to instill a better directory/file structure. Since the last post, it has added more widgets, changes to existing widgets, and been put up on a new domain. Seeking feedback to help it mature a bit.


I actually really like this, thank you!

Some feedback to the author,

I deployed it on apache with a .htaccess limited to my domain to limit security issues. Pretty trivial. Perhaps you could expand your documentation on this note. Just include a few lines on how to stick a file in the root folder with something like this

RewriteEngine on Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from IP or partial IP Allow from domain

Also make sure the overall apache config has a directory tag with allowoverride all. Debain defaults to allowing none.

The most important widgets for me are general info, load average, ram, disk usage (actually, I would mostly like a widget that highlights when a disk is below 90% free space, so maybe that is a new widget) and processes. I changed it so these are sorted at the top by default, also I changed the sorting when clicking on cpu/memory etc to display the highest values instead of the reverse which is the default. I dont know how much of this is something you would like to implement, and all of it is trivial, but if you want my changes reach out.


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