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While this is clearly aimed at personal use, I wonder if it could be extended to serve as a lab notebook for a small research group.

Storing time-stamped, signed Markdown notes with version control and with some hierarchy (daily notes, brainstorm ideas, versioned lab protocols etc.) would be great.

Right now I use on site GitLab & private GitHub repo, but for the not computer savvy users this seems to be too much. Ability to add images to documents using menus/mouse is crucial.



As referenced above [1] multi-user is a non-feature so I wouldn't expect development on that any time soon.

Not sure how good Obsidian [2] is, multi-user support seems to be in dev as well but it might work on a shared drive folder. Also doens't seem to be free/libre.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23347168 [2] https://obsidian.md/




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