Hey everyone, I’m trying to replace most of the private owned app I use by FOSS ones, and today i’m pointing at notion.
I just use it as a way to organize my notes and use it both on my laptop and phone, and i’m looking for something that can have that fonctionnality.
I’ve already looked into a bunch of foss note taking apps but I didn’t see any that could do it. (maybe i didn’t look hard enough tho)
I’m willing to use syncthing or smth similar if needed.
do you have any recommendations? anyway, have a nice day and thanks to everyone making the internet/softwares more libre and accessible!
Joplin. It’s cross platform and just works. No hassle.
Joplin. I use it on my phone, multiple laptops and Linux desktops.
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Do you ever regret that Joplin does not store notes in plain text? (meaning you couldn’t edit your notes in a plain text editor if you wanted to)
Nope not a bit. But you mean through exporting stuff I assume(?).
If for any reason I need to move something to a text file (very rare) then I just cut/copy and paste without the MD.
I just meant like if Joplin ever stopped working or vanished overnight. I know it might seem like a contrived scenario, but I’ve always been a little skittish about apps that don’t store files in plain text in case I want/need to use a different editor. Sounds like that hasn’t been an issue for you, though, which is cool.
Joplin can sync between phone and laptop with a number of network storage options
https://joplinapp.org/help/apps/sync/
or you can self-host Joplin server.
https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/packages/server/README.md
obsidian is not FOSS BTW
Sadly, because honestly, all the FOSS options that are mentioned in this thread don’t even compare to how snappy, useful and expandable Obsidian is 😭
fully agree but the head coder is aggressively anti-foss on mastodon and I don’t like that. trilium is a decent alternative but it doesn’t have a phone app, and no not triliumnext.
I’ve never used it, but I’ve heard good things about Notesnook.
Been using Notesnook for almost 3 years now and it’s just awesome. Highly recommend!
Probably Nextcloud
Setting up nextcloud for notes is, to take a quote from the late Robin Williams, like doing chemo cause you’re tired of shaving your head.
I love Nextcloud but it’s such a beast to setup
Filen, German OpenSource cloud service, 10 GB for free
either you selfhost with docker. Or you have some php webspace where you have to run an setup-nextcloud.php
In both ways it simply works. For a small instance with no special need the webinstaller is enougth. (I use it that way)
Standard Notes
Obsidian + Syncthing has been working prefectly for several years now for me, across Windows, Android and Linux.
Obsidian is not open-source…
What also works is using SyncThing. That way you can sync any app that uses files that you want. I use Obsidian for note taking which creates .MD files in a designated folder, I sync that folder with my phone.
Anything with cloud support, really. I’m using iotas and some Android nextcloud notes app. Most apps will just write notes to .md files you can sync with nextcloud/owncloud using the desktop client.
notesnook
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Notesnook should do it! It has a premium monthly subscription thing that gives you some extra functionality, but the free version does sync automatically between devices. I’ve been using it for a year now myself and have had no complaints.
I use Notesnook and I’m happy with it. They have a flagship instance with free accounts if you don’t want to self-host.
If you want something more lightweight and are up for using syncthing, just a bunch of markdown files synced with syncthing also works. You can encrypt them with your pgp key if you want encryption, but that doesn’t encrypt metadata like file names, directory structure, or when files were last edited.
Syncthing has encryption as well. You can have a device be “untrusted” so you put in an encryption password, and data sent to and stored on that device will be encrypted.
Although this does encrypt file (and directory) names, the caveats about folder structure and modification time still apply.
I’m using Logseq and it’s the least bad of the FOSS options I tried so far.
Its crazy, with a complete fresh install and 0 notes, this application takes half a gig of memory and is constantly making the CPU work, when it’s just running, not even being used?
I think its wild that it hogs resources like this for a text editor 😅
Yeah, one of my issues with it. It’s a browser app in a non-browser corset, like so many modern “apps”…
I see Logseq recommended a lot, but does it still try to force you to use bullet lists only?
Yes, basically. Fits my workflow as I usually use bullet lists anyway. You can hide the bullet points and have it be just blocks, in the backend (MD file) it’s still bullets though.
