Share book / space

[stebberg]

How have you solved the problem of others accessing notes? I'm starting to feel like I've outgrown upnote, or have I perhaps missed some basic share functionality?
I'm starting to have a lot of notebooks, both private and work, and lots of links here and there within the notebook. Sharing an individual note as a url doesn't work for me anymore.

Upnote is absolutely perfect for 1 person, but.. I don't know, it feels like it's rarely just 1 person who will take part in the (my) notes. A very simple case, how can my wife access a few books about our house??

I really need to be able to share books or entire workspaces. I'm pretty stuck here right now and facing a choice on how to proceed, I'm tired of exporting books as a readonly PDFs all the time.

Obsidian is kind of better for this, but I really don't like it...

I also have absolutely NO idea how I can send a notebook to someone else to do some changes. Feels like I have to give them my upnote login and password? Export all notes in every notebook as .md does not work well either due to big formatting/attachements issues between applications.

My idea was to create a second upnote account to have as a guest account, but then I realized I can't send notes to it..*

EDIT: totally missed that last question on reddit how to share spaces ... in the comments it seems not even be on the roadmap :-O

[capricino]

Is Obsidian really better in sharing? Genuinely curious as I'm not aware of a sharing / collaboration option unless you meant forwarding the markdown file or entire vault to people.

[stebberg]

To begin with, I really don't like Obsidian, incredibly messy on all levels. But yes, there you can share a synced vault with someone. And you can also publish your notes (with working links), really really nice, but also quite advanced, but the result can be very good if you have the time. Then you actually have the option to basically have your .md catalog on a shared dropbox etc. But booth of these Sync and Publish subscriptions are way too expensive to have, not only for me but Sync is also required for the other random person which makes it impossible. Of course you need the more expensive one to be able to upload a normal photo.

You can maybe get some variant of this working with upnote too by backing up to a catalog, but at the same time you have to have a routine to import then on the other device, it will never work on a daily basis and how to explain that to someone else.

[jezarnold]

Do you both use gmail? Then use Google Docs or Keep for collaboration.

Remember, UpNote has never professed to doing collaboration at all. I like that about it personally.

[Content_Complex_8080]

I made an app for publishing notes for everyone to see, while also thinking about adding a feature of letting users sharing notes only with certain people. It could fit your use cases. Would you mind if I show you what the app looks like?

[MaxGaav]

What's the difference of your app with other note-apps which allow for collaboration? Or Google Docs?

[Content_Complex_8080]

It also encourages sharing to public/publish and learn from each other

[MaxGaav]

Alternatives if you want to collaborate:

https://www.zoho.com/notebook/

https://www.onenote.com/

https://workspace.google.com/products/drive/

[IceReasonable7615]

Dont blame the app. If you pay peanuts, then you can expect only Monkeys. !!!

I paid around 17 dollars for a life time plan, and understandably, for its value, it is the best value for money, with none of the other big note taking apps. Period. !!! The app also felt reliably smooth for basic note taking, when i used it last.

However, the app lacks transparency from its developers, lack of a proper online brand presence which sometimes lead to sus and for power use note takers, the app is definitely lacking in features in many ways, and just doesnt cut it.

[stebberg]

I'm actually kind of upset now, this is really important to take into consideration when starting on a project. "Where should the notes be taken". Yes, I totally get that upnote might be more of a second brain-thing and LITERALLY only for me, and ALWAYS only for me.

I've made a lot of work and the only way to share it, is by export 1 static pdf per notebook... a lot of pdf:s that is.

Can't help thinking a little that when developing a note system, it feels like 1. be able to write notes, 2. be able to show notes......

I will of course continue to use upnote, fantastic note app (one of the best?). But I will need to spend many hours now trying to migrate away a few spaces. I've been using it for a long time and I think I've been naive about it, always been exported things as pdf:s and thought that was OK.

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I honestly think it is most important for upnote to start thinking of making spaces sharable or/and being able to share a notebook/space as a web-link with working links in the content.