Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird)

• JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If I could afford a NAS I would have done so by now. But I can’t afford the drives. Most other hosted solutions either don’t offer the capacity I am after, or lack other features that I want from a cloud storage.

  I didn’t like using Obsidian and I’m not going to learn markdown so it’s out. I’m looking at notesnook, but it’s still not quite what I am after. But might be as close as I get.

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  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I haven’t heard of notesnook. I’ll need to check that out.

    I don’t love Obsidian, it’s just the best free app I’ve come across so far.

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    • JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s really close to OneNote so far and has an acceptable self hosting option. The import function seems good compared to other apps I’ve tried

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      • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I just checked it out and at first it looked perfect… then I started noticing local features like exports, notebook counts, etc that were paywalled behind a subscription. For an app that is “open source” that really rubs me the wrong way. I may look through the source code later. I have a feeling they’ve tied those features arbitrarily to web services to drive subscriptions, which would be really creepy… though not as creepy as if the code exists locally and is paywalled. sigh

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• Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Obsidian is not a great replacement for OneNote. I tried switching but there’s a bunch of things like sharing pages (and no, emailing documents doesn’t count), easy syncing between all platforms (Syncthing doesn’t work at all on iOS and was kinda finicky on other things, and git is just not a valid option), it doesn’t do super well when embedding images or PDFs, doesn’t have the same advanced hand writing stuff, and probably some other things that I’m forgetting.

  OneNote is basically the only thing besides email that I can’t find a good self hosted alternative. And I’ve been looking trust me. Obsidian is great if all you need is note taking on a desktop, but that’s about where it ends. Or if you want to pay for the subscription and cloud storage, I would imagine it’d work fine.

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