Yet another note taking recommendation needed

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I am currently using Trilium for my notes. But I am constantly annoyed by the mobile experience. What I want:

sync across devices from a central server (this is why I went with Trilium, as having a web client means there’s always the same notes everywhere)
native Android app with local storage so that I don’t have to log in just for looking up a single note (this is what annoys me most about Trilium, plus the UX on mobile)
web version (for use on PC)

I only need very basic markup, markdown support is enough. I don’t worry about security, as I run everything inside my own VPN.

Is there something like this out there? I always see people raving about Obsidian, but sync seems to really suck there. Using some folder sync is a no go for me.

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filister@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Obsidian with Syncthing running on both your Android and your server for syncing your notes.

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- state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That solution doesn’t exactly spark joy. Folder sync in general is, in my experience, too error prone. So I just stay away from it. Maybe I’ll need to finally give it another try.
  
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  - cantevencode@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Obsidian livesync works really well. Notes are live synced between my desktop and Android device
    
    github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync
    
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  - Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I sync hundreds of gigs, (if not terabytes at this point) using Syncthing with errors on only one machine (it’s running on 6 devices, including a VM). And those errors are of my own doing, not random Syncthing errors.
    
    It’s surprisingly robust these days, especially for a single-user notes.
    
    I have an indexing job that runs on my server every 30 minutes, saving into a text file (it indexes my media folder, which is about 3TB of movies and TV shows).
    
    Those text files sync to my phone when they’ve changed (so every 30 minutes). They’re always up to date when I open them.
    
    My phone also has jobs to continually sync my photos to home, an ad-hoc folder to my laptop, and about 25 other folder pairs (including NeoBackup) that sync under different conditions, without fail.
    
    I’m currently testing Cherrytree using Sourcherry on Android and it seems to work fine as a single-user solution with Syncthing.
    
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danielquinn@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Joplin will do this for you. It comes ready to sync with all sorts of cloud options, as well as “local folder” which works well with Syncthing. It’s offline-first, cross-platform, and FOSS.

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- aldo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Can confirm. This app is great! I particularly like that it works across all OSs.
  
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- ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Plus the FF extension is really full-featured. I can clip in different formats or even take a screenshot if the webpage makes clipping hard.
  
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  - danielquinn@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Plus the FF extension is really full-featured. I can clip in different formats or even take a screenshot if the webpage makes clipping hard.
    
    I didn’t even know there was a Firefox extension! I might give it a look.
    
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kaotic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
v2.silverbullet.md

This along with a home VPN and you can hit it from anywhere.

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- InnerScientist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Can recommend, work offline and online with PWA support and stored everything in Markdown files for easy migration if you want to change your frontend.
  
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  - Okus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    How are you doing offline PWA?
    
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- percent@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ve been happily using SilverBullet lately too. Can recommend
  
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solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Org-mode and git push works for me.

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- state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m not mentally ill enough for that. 😛
  
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0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I use joplin with syncthing.

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TurkeyDurkey@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I suggest looking into using or hosting Notesnook

Mobile app is great. Desktop and web clients are great. End to end encrypted.

Self hosting docs I am unsure of. But it exists.

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tuxec@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If privacy is important for you, anytype.io has E2EE (End-to-End Encryption). You can run your sync nodes also. Personally, I’ve used Roam Research, Doom Emacs, moved to Logseq, then Obsidian, back to Logseq and now I’m using Anytype for two years.

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kurcatovium@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
For this scenario, I can recommend Standard Notes and/or Notesnook. I’ve tried Joplin and Logseq and didn’t like either.

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Maestro@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Obsidian aldo has (paid, subscription) native sync that is supposed to work better than file sync. Another alternative is git sync. That's basically file sync through git but great if you want to track your changes.

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- Maruchinsu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Obsidian with Syncthing
  
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- 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  There’s a community plugin for self hosted live sync.
  
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harfang@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Quillpad forever ❤️

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- ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Man, I like Quillpad but I can’t use the sync. If I enable that, I have to go to NC to delete notes, if I delete them locally they just come back. I guess that’s fine, I only use it for temporary notes anyway, stuff I want to save and organize goes into Joplin.
  
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  - harfang@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It happens to me the same, but since last update in.able to sync :p
    
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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Look at Notesnook. You can even self-host the server, though it’s somewhat more complicated than it needs to be.

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sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I have Joplin with Nextcloud sync. It works fine for me! It’s got a desktop app and a mobile app with, in my opinion, pretty good UI. Markdown support, syncing between devices, etc. are all there. You don’t need to connect to the network to view notes, a local copy is saved.

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Mistral85@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Take a look at Affine. I am using Joplin currently, however I am leaning more and more towards Affine due to OIDC support

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sonofearth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Joplin for sure. But I personally use Obsidian because of the UI. I sync it with my server using Syncthing. All devices are synced to the server and not with each other so I have one source of Truth.

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zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I am using SiYuan and I use the web app as a short cut, so that I can easily create notes on my phone.

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haych@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I use the Quillpad app and sync it with Nextcloud notes. Been pretty flawless so far.

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abominable_panda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I have joplin but personally found myself using Nextcloud Notes 100% of the time. I just need very basic, quick markdown notes

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