HelixNotes now on Android, same Rust + Tauri codebase
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43705151
Last month I posted HelixNotes here and some of you asked about mobile. Version 1.2.1 ships with an Android APK. Same codebase, Rust + Tauri 2.0, no separate app. Since last post: Android support, Ollama for local AI, graph view performance improvements, wiki-link navigation, and a bunch of mobile UX polish. Direct APK download from the site. IzzyOnDroid submission in progress. AGPL-3.0, source on Codeberg.
https://helixnotes.com/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
Please let me know when APK is in izzy droid. Yeah I know about Obtainium but tbh I hate to use it when f-droid is available instead.
Sure, working on that.
You can download the apk from the link in the post directly.
Then it won't update.
I've given this app a go and like it. I've been on the search for a replacement to obsidian, but haven't landed on anything yet. Is built in sync on the roadmap?
I like Obsidian storing everything as markdown files that I can edit outside of the application. I'm not so much a fan of the do-it-yourself obsidian live sync because it's a fairly fragile setup and involves updating plugins and settings across multiple vaults and multiple devices.
Affine and Trillium go the database route. They are both decent (though affine handles tables poorly, while trillium's mobile PWA UI has navigation issues), but with both I have real difficulty importing an Obsidian vault keeping the folder structure and images intact.
No built-in sync planned for now. Notes are plain .md files so you can sync the folder however you want. I personally use Syncthing for this and it works great.
this looks great. before using it i would love to know - if gen-ai has been used in the creation of helix notes, in what capacity has it been used?
Yes, Claude was used as a coding assistant during development. Architecture, features, and direction are all mine. Source is AGPL-3.0 on Codeberg - you can read every line yourself.
Tried to download via obtainium and it showed the apk is hosted on helixnotes .com instead of codeberg. Any plans to provide it on F-droid/Izzy or on Codeberg releases ?
Honestly, I can add it to Codeberg instead of HelixNotes. Codeberg allows 100MB per file upload inside a release. So this will not be an issue for the Android version. Will do it.
For IzzyOnDroid, I'm working on it since they don't like the fact that Anthropic/OpenAI (Cloud AI) options are in the app.
I'm sure you mentioned this in the past, but any plans for E2EE?
Not on the roadmap. Notes are plain .md files on your disk. What I do is luks encrypt at the filesystem level.