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Notes always stay plain text, with live preview, full-text search (including Chinese indexing), wiki-style backlinks, offline editing with multi-device sync, and scheduled WebDAV/S3 backups layered on top. The public demo (inkstone-demo.pages.dev) really does sign in with the admin account shown on the page (verified), resetting to two starter notes on refresh.", "take": "Having to deploy it yourself is real friction, but in return it keeps its promise that the data lives only in your own account.", "build": [ "Build your own note server for plain Markdown knowledge you want to fully own", "Issue a per-document MCP API key so a coding agent can search or edit your notes", "Schedule WebDAV/S3 backups for off-site storage" ], "who": [ { "role": "Anyone who wants notes as plain Markdown files, nothing proprietary", "situation": null }, { "role": "Someone with a Cloudflare account who wants a notebook server they fully own", "situation": null }, { "role": "A developer who wants to grant an agent scoped access to search or edit notes", "situation": null } ], "start": [ { "command": false, "text": "Try the demo first: https://inkstone-demo.pages.dev (sign in with the account shown on the page; refreshing resets it)" }, { "command": false, "text": "Deploy to your own account: fork the repo → connect it via GitHub in Cloudflare Workers & Pages → set build command npm run build, deploy command npm run deploy" } ], "caveat": [ "LGPL-3.0-only · real use requires deploying to your own Cloudflare account; the public demo signs in with a fixed account and resets on refresh", "Optional semantic search needs the Workers AI binding; without it, search falls back to lexical only" ] }, "cta": { "type": "self_host", "label": "SELF-HOST", "url": "https://inkstone-demo.pages.dev/" }, "ready": "self-host", "categories": [ "productivity" ], "categories_confirmed": true, "tags": [ "markdown", "self-hosted", "cloudflare-workers", "notes", "sync" ], "platform": [ "web" ], "license": { "spdx": null, "scope": "unknown", "scope_text": "Unconfirmed — check before use.", "url": "https://github.com/shuaiplus/inkstone?tab=License-1-ov-file", "note": null, "open_source": null }, "language": "TypeScript", "source_urls": { "canonical": "https://inkstone-demo.pages.dev/", "github": "https://github.com/shuaiplus/inkstone", "huggingface": null, "app_store": null, "sightings": [ { "source": "github", "url": "https://github.com/shuaiplus/inkstone", "posted_at": "2026-09-15T11:00:00.000Z", "hn_url": null } ] }, "numbers": { "as_of": "2026-09-16T21:00:00.000Z", "stars": 819, "stars_unit": "GitHub stars", "stars_checked_at": "2026-09-15T21:33:23.443Z", "stars_observed_since_check": 2, "star_delta_24h": 2, "star_delta_7d": 10, "star_delta_30d": 12, "star_delta_unit": "GitHub stars gained in the window, GH Archive events summed to as_of", "spark_14d": [ null, null, null, null, null, null, 2, null, null, null, 2, null, 6, 2 ], "hf_likes": null, "hf_likes_observed_at": null, "hn_points": null, "hn_points_observed_at": null, "store": null, "method": "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours." }, "ranks": null, "activity": { "pushed_at": "2026-09-14T07:50:35.000Z", "owner_type": null, "open_issues": null, "contributors": null, "releases_count": null, "latest_release": null, "checked_at": null, "core_checked_at": "2026-09-15T21:33:23.443Z" }, "signals": [], "images": { "og": "https://tesign.com/img/inkstone-163a482ebb.png", "cover": "https://tesign.com/img/inkstone-163a482ebb.png", "cover_width": 1200, "cover_height": 800, "gallery": [ "https://tesign.com/img/inkstone-163a482ebb.png", "https://tesign.com/img/inkstone-08fdfcb197.png" ], "alt": "Inkstone's notebook interior: a note list on the left, the \"Welcome to Inkstone\" Markdown body in the centre, and a document outline on the right.", "tier": 1 }, "dates": { "first_seen_at": "2026-09-15T21:32:54.624Z", "source_created_at": "2026-07-30T13:27:48.000Z", "discovery_hours": 1136.0851733333334, "launch_signal_at": "2026-09-15T11:00:00.000Z", "kept_at": "2026-09-17T01:24:00.719Z", "first_published_at": "2026-09-17T01:24:00.858Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-17T01:26:30.191Z", "ingestion_mode": "live" }, "notes": [ "This file was produced by the same build, from the same data, as the tesign.com item page. The text is editorial; the numbers are stored observations.", "null in the JSON means not observed — never zero. The Markdown writes [unconfirmed] for it.", "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours.", "A summary, not legal advice." ] }