Monica Work & team· Instead of Dex
A personal CRM for friends and family: birthdays, conversations and the message you keep meaning to send.
Anchor
A notes app with sync: write offline, images and voice memos, history per note.
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What Anchor does
Anchor is a notebook with a proper editor: headings, lists, checklists, images and audio right inside the note. You can write offline; it syncs as soon as the app is reachable again.
Coloured tags, pinned and archived notes keep things tidy; a history per note brings earlier versions back.
Write offline, sync later- Images, audio and checklists inside notes
- Version history per note
- Share notes with other accounts
Good to know before the first start. The first registered account is yours. While registration is open, anyone with the address can sign up — if you use the app alone or in a small group, close it in the admin area.
Anchor instead of Google Keep
Also instead of Apple Notes, OneNote.
What you get out of it
- Notes live on the device first and sync through your instance
- No corporate account that everything hangs on
- A history per note that brings earlier versions back
| Google Keep and Podless | Google Keep | On Podless |
|---|---|---|
| Where the data lives | Google KeepOn the provider’s servers | On PodlessIn your own instance in the EU |
| Source code | Google KeepNot open to read | On PodlessOpen, you can read what runs |
| Ads and profiling | Google KeepPer the provider’s terms | On PodlessNone |
| Your own domain | Google KeepUsually not offered | On PodlessIncluded, certificate too |
| Getting out again | Google KeepAs far as the provider allows | On PodlessSFTP, database, backups to your storage |
| If it gets shut down | Google KeepYou have to move | On PodlessYou decide when you leave |
Additional information
- Category
- Work & team
- Replaces
- Google Keep, Apple Notes, OneNote, Simplenote
- Recommended size
- 1 cores · 2 GB RAM · 5 GB Storage
- Estimated per month
- €3.70 At the recommended size, running around the clock. Stop the app and CPU and RAM stop costing.
- Source
- zhfahim/anchor
Common questions
At the recommended size (1 cores · 2 GB RAM · 5 GB Storage) about €3.70 a month, billed by the hour. Stop Anchor and you only pay for storage.
No. No server, no Docker, no terminal commands. You click start and Anchor runs. Updates are tested on our own instances first and then rolled out.
In your own Anchor instance on servers in Germany and France; bulk storage sits in Frankfurt. Add your own S3 bucket and we back up there daily, encrypted.
Anchor is open source and keeps running on your own server. You fetch the files over a time-limited SFTP access and reach the database with the credentials from the dashboard.
Goes well with
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