Comment on The last note taking app you'll ever need

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• JayleneSlide@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t really get all the hate on the comments.

  Agreed. “Oh no! Not an ETL!” I wish more applications were backed by MySQL, MariaDB, Mongo, etc. Give me the option of encryption at rest, and when it’s time to change apps, I have granular control over everything.

  On the other hand, the advantage of all the hate is everyone presenting their faves and providing their reasons. So …net win for the audience?

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• moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think the mistake is they titled it “The last note taking app you’ll ever need” instead of “The last note taking app I’lll ever need”

  Yes, seriously. The article seems to talk mostly about their personal usecases, which is fine. This app is great and it works for them. But it won’t work for everybody and the title should probably respect that instead of having a grating title that evokes a knee jerk reaction.

  Databases are annoying it is legitimately more difficult to export data from a database to another, than it is to copy markdown notes from one folder to another. In addition to that, there are also tools that process markdown and do cool stuff with, like pandoc, beamer, revealjs, etc, which can’t really be done with the more opaque database format.

  Also this notetaking service only appears to work while online. Again, fine for them — but a dealbreaker for many people.

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  • non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Really? You think it’s the “last note taking app” comment in the description?

    You don’t think maybe it’s the shoehorned AI into a project that has no real plan for how it is implemented?

    Or maybe it’s not the ai implementation, maybe it’s the fact that “respects your privacy” is incompatible with openai’s terms of use (openai can train on your notes if you supply them)?

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    • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m not spotting it. “AI” is only mentioned once.

      The key and secret in the docker compose don’t seem to be API keys, but keys for directus itself (which upon a careful reread of the article, I realize is not FOSS, which might be anpther reason people don’t like it").

      Directus does seem to have some integration with openai, but this blog post doesn’t mention any of it.

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• lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is this SyncThing fork? Is it on F-Droid or something? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills because everyone praises SyncThing but it straight up does not work. I can get it to sync once, then the next day it will just not connect at all (Android 15 P9Pro/CachyOS)

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  • merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I started using syncthing after reading all that praise on lemmy. It deserves all the praise it can get, it’s easy to setup and works perfectly.

    what “crazy pills” are you taking?

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    • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      what “crazy pills” are you taking?

      1. Hear people praise SyncThing
      2. Open the Play Store by depressing the tip of my finger on its icon
      3. Search "SyncThing"
      4. Click on first result
      5. Press "Install"
      6. It doesn’t work

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      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yea, that’s a lot of ambiguity.

        “Doesn’t work”. Well, yea, if you only install it on your phone - it’s a multi-device sync tool.

        For Windows I recommend SyncTrayzor, for Linux and Mac it’s Syncthing, for iOS it’s Möbius.

        I’ve installed it hundreds of times, the only time it hasn’t worked was between 2 Android devices of a specific version, and this is a documented thing.

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    An alternative to Syncthing is Resilio Sync. I use both, for different purposes.

    Resilio is a battery eater on mobile, but it is a bit more consistent than Syncthing (though after 10+ years and probably terabytes of sync, it’s not like ST is problematic).

    RS offers Selective Sync, so I don’t have to sync an entire folder, but can pick a file to sync “right now”. This is really useful for my media folder (~2.5 TB), since I don’t have that kind of free space on my phone. From anywhere I can fire up RS on my phone and grab whatever movie I want (or any file from my laptop, other phones etc, because all those files are synced to my server using Syncthing).

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  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The original android app has been discontinued by the dev for reasons. Another dev picked it up and keep publishing SyncThing fork on FDROID, at least, i get it from fdroid…

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Fork dev forked it years ago, well before the original dev stopped because of Play rules (which I really don’t get).

      Anyway, I’ve used Fork for years now, it “just works”, plus moved all the config into each sync pair/folder.

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    • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ok awesome, thank you. I’ll try it out. I was not aware of the discrepancy with the Play Store version

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