Up to now I’ve been using Simplenote, which has a Linux client (but also Android & iOS) & supports live collaboration on notes. However, Simplenote hasn’t had a meaningful update for a long time, & it’s recently been behaving strangely, e.g. notes undeleting themselves, line duplications & undeletions.
Can anyone recommend an alternative? Spinning up an ownCloud/nextcloud instance just to use Joplin feels a little overkill. I stumbled across turtl, but the project looks abandoned.
Affine.pro has potential but a couple months from cloud.
SiYuan is solid and FOSS (GPL)
Notesnook and Standard Notes are really good. Both are end-to-end encrypted and FOSS.
Every other app and solution I’ve tried is kinda janky, e.g. using Dropbox, git, Syntching or some other app to sync across devices. I want an all-in-one, encrypted, cloud-based, FOSS solution.
I’ve been using Standard Notes for some years now and I’m pretty happy with it.
I looked into it once but there wasn’t anything. I just stuck with Google Keep and it works great for small notes.
I’ve used vim with a smattering of essential plugins for years to do this, and only this year moved to Neovim for the same.
It’s not Open Source, but I’ve also taken a hefty liking to Obsidian’s canvas mode. Likewise, I share a small selection of lists with my other half via Google Keep.
Years ago, I was looking for something similar. Used turtl for almost a year before switching to Joplin. Joplin was great, but not quite what I needed, and when Logseq came around, I switched again to it. Again, Logseq was just not exactly what I needed (though it is pretty powerful!) and I was worried what would happen when the devs either made it paid or abandoned the project, like so many before it.
The solution to my woes was Emacs. Now, I won’t pretend the learning curve isn’t steep, but there just isn’t anything that compares to it. Org-mode + Org-roam + notdeft is amazing, and I’ve never even looked for anything else since becoming accustomed to it. Plus, you can easily modify the existing tools or write your own to adapt it to your personal style.
You will never regret the time you invest in Emacs.
Anyone else tried Acreom? I don’t think it’s open source though, but a local first markdown editor with some cool features like integration with Jira and has a nice UI.
That said, I still haven’t decided if I will stick with it. I use Obsidian for journaling, brain dumps, and documenting projects in working on. Ive tried also using it as a Google Keep replacement, but its not really geared for the To-do/shopping lists that I use Keep for.
I use Trilium
Agree about Joplin. No need for a full NextCloud instance, I use the WebDAV option which Apache has pretty much out of the box.
I just sync a directory called “Notes” everywhere and use whatever text editor is most comfortable on any given platform to edit Markdown documents. Helix on desktop, Markor (or, increasingly, Simple Text Editor) on Android. For checklists, same thing except I use todo.txt for the file format, and the todo script on the desktop and Simpletask on Android.
I have been looking for a self-hosted, concurrent collaborative web editor, as asking my wife to write Markdown is a bit much, and the syncing becomes more complex, but I haven’t settled on something.
Hedgedoc is a competent selfhostable alternative. V2.0 is around the corner.
Thanks, Hedgedoc looks like a neat project. It’s focused on Markdown, which is nice, and the preview is handy. The editor requires some knowledge of Markdown, and willingness to use it in some instances, which means it won’t be the best option for my wife. While she’s certainly capable of learning markdown, she has no willingness - it’s one of those areas where she just can’t be arsed to fuss with it. Embedding images, for example, and even seeing the markup while she’s editing is distracting for her.
Anyway, I need to find some WYSIWIG editor. If it saves and loads markdown, all the better, but it’s more important that the editor lool Word-ish, which is what she has to use at work.
Thanks for the pointer, though!
Maybe Notesnook? There’s a free version and they also offer a payed plan if you need more options.
Ive tried Notesnook recently and although very promising, it didn’t quite suit my needs. Have tried to get my money back as I went for a year subscription. But they have yet to respond to my email about it… Getting slightly worried. Just a heads up.
Notesnook looks really promising!
You don’t need your own server to use Joplin. You can select a local directory to store your notes and sync this directory with Syncthing between devices.
I am not sure if this works with iOS though.
iOS has Möbius Sync as a Syncthing client, but it is not free ( but only 5$ one time payment) if you want to sync folders from other apps like Syncthing. The option to sync other folders was introduced this year.
I use Zim, a local wiki which uses text files with a markdown-like syntax, Syncthing to synchronize the notes, and Markor on Android supports this syntax.
I use Joplin synced over Nextcloud.
Standard Notes is pretty good too
Emacs + org-mode + maybe org-roam
Amazing features, can export to a bunch of common formats.
Obsidian and a shared Dropbox/Google Drive/OneDrive folder?
Obsidian isnt FOSS sadly, but still very good and you own your files
