Self hosted Google Keep alternative

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨woodgen@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Any recommendations for a self hosted note taking app that runs on everything with a screen and is designed for multi device usage?

Also a modern, powerful and puristic UI would be a must have to compete with Keep.

I am looking for this app every now and then but am always disappointed by the choices.

I recently tried Joplin on Android, but was very dissatisfied with the usabilty.

The FOSS self hosted alternatives for smart home and porn are better than the commercial ones, can’t be that hard for notes, can it?

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SGG@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ve been using Trilium (github.com/zadam/trilium). There are desktop clients, no mobile clients. However the web interface works well enough for me that I don’t mind. The notes update in near-realtime when you make edits through the web app on multiple machines (assuming internet connectivity of course).

If you’re already self-hosting NextCloud you might want to look NextCloud Notes as well.

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CR1VEN5@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Obsidian! Getting it to use cloud synced folders is a little tricky but it is a fabulous little program.

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- nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Available but not FOSS. Gotta watch the license if you use it for any work.
  
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  - PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m curious what licensing issues you would run into with obsidian?
    
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- quaddo@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Also a big fan of Obsidian!
  
  For syncing, one option is to use syncthing.
  
  I know someone (whose geek creds are admittedly well beyond mine) who is also a fan. He uses GitHub to sync his notes.
  
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nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Mind sharing what were your issues with Joplin?

My only issue is that it does not have any widgets on Android. So, I use Nextcloud Notes when I need that. But Joplin is actually great. You can self host a joplin server or sync using a Nextcloud server. It supports advanced markdown and I like the UI as well.

You can try Bookstack, but it will work on a web browser only. Another option is Obsidian, but I think only the apps are FOSS, the backend is not.

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- rush@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Obsidian isn’t FOSS at all, sadly.
  
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- woodgen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Right, obsidian didn’t appeal to me since it’s proprietary.
  
  I probably will look into setting up a Joplin server and maybe write a frontend for it. Also didn’t try frontend options on PC yet.
  
  Until now I only tried the Android app and while it looked quite mature, I didn’t get quite the UX from it I was anticipating.
  
  Some things that bothered me:
  
  Creating a note requires 2 clicks, 1 should be fine.I want to start writing and decide whether its a todo later.
  
  Tag management. In Keep #tags are parsed from text automatically. Although there is a conflict with markdown syntax, having to issue 3 clicks to add a tag seems bothersome
  
  Tags are not shown in the main menu, but are another view.
  
  Didn’t figure out what notebooks are supposed to be, but i guess some kind of directory system. Don’t see the point when having a tag system. In the end they are too prominent in the UI.
  
  But the synchronization options and markdown capabilities are a big plus. mardown is actually a feature missing in keep.
  
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  - lung@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m a Joplin contributor and if you think the android app is halfway decent, that’s a win ahahaha. The desktop apps are what makes it a superstar though, with all the plugins and community. The mobile apps have been slowly modernizing but it’s real basic
    
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  - liightninggod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Obsidian is just a glorified markdown editor and there are some open source plugins for sync that you can self host if you want!
    
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- CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  If you like obsidian but want a FOSS alternative, you might want to try out emacs org-mode and org-roam.
  
  Here is an example video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyhPmypHDEw
  
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  - gunpachi@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Is there any way to use org roam in vim ? I’m interested in trying it out.
    
    I have been using an android app named orgzly and have found org-mode to work just as good as markdown for me. For markdown I was using an app called Markor.
    
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dx1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
…ssh and vim?

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- lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Editing a file with vim though ssh on mobile seems like a pain.
  
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- ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  +1
  
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cdombroski@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

self hosted alternatives for smart home and porn

How does self hosted porn even work and how am I the first person to notice that sitting there and mention it?

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- cesium@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  github.com/stashapp/stash
  
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RHOPKINS13@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Anything wrong with Nextcloud Notes?

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- woodgen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I guess it does a job, but will lack some features like tagging I am accustomed to from keep. Also I would need to maintain a whole nextcloud instance for it.
  
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  - 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It has “categories”. Not sure if thats the same thing
    
    I replaced keep with nextcloud notes many years ago
    
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woodgen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
For the record, I also found that turtl is FOSS and seems to have a decent UI. I will give it a try.

github.com/turtl

turtlapp.com

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- nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Did you try it?
  
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dipshit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
try obsidian.md

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Zetaphor@zemmy.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m really enjoying Otterwiki. Everything is saved as markdown, attachments are next to the markdown files in a folder, and version control is integrated with a git repo. Everything lives in a directory and the application runs from a docker container.

It’s the perfect amount of simplicity and is really just a UI on top of fully portable standard tech.

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Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Quillpad is open source and pretty much identical to Google Keep - you can use Nextcloud to sync across devices.

All I really want is a way to import my lists, my many many lists.

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- woodgen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Hmm, latest commit 7 years ago… It was also not easy to find the “upstream” repo, the link on the website 404s. github.com/cognirel/Quillpad-Server
  
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  - Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s here:
    
    github.com/quillpad/quillpad
    
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  - jetsetdorito@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I didn’t even know there was a standalone server, the app doesn’t even seem to support it anymore, just Nextcloud.
    
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- morethanevil@lmy.mymte.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  +1 for Quillpad 🌞
  
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adam@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Nextcloud notes is really nice.

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elperronegro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have been using anytype.io for a few months and love it. Best thing is it’s “local first” so stored on your own devices, just synched online.

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NuclearArmWrestling@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m a big fan of Logseq. I use Syncthing to sync a folder between my desktop and phone and it works great. Tagging, everything is in markdown, and it’s easy to navigate around.

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ptman@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
gitjournal.io

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Shory@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What about Obsidian?

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- woodgen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I actually stumbled upon it, but even though they have an active github account and there is an Arch Linux package, the software is proprietary. So I would rather patch the FOSS alternatives to my desire.
  
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  - shua_too@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Logseq is pretty similar to Obsidian, and it’s FOSS. It’s still really young, but I’ve enjoyed using it more than Obsidian for my personal note taking style. It’s block-based and focused on daily journals, so instead of folders of individual notes the tags/references become interlinked pages. It’s been cool to see my daily logs become a web of concepts. Syncing is a new function they’re adding for supporters, but it can be done with Syncthing if you’re nasty.
    
    It’s definitely a different way of note taking than Keep or Joplin and maybe not for everyone, but I hope I’m at least doing it justice and piqued someone’s curiosity!
    
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Mautobu@victoriagaming.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I want this sooooo bad.

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PhictionalOne@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Try Carnet it is exactly what Google Keep does but a nextcloud hosted App with mobile apps.

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MrCamel999@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ve had success with Standard Notes personally. I’ve just used the basic default server, but I know you can self host it. Best of luck!!

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- woodgen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oh, I didn’t realize it was open source from the look of the website. But it actually is! And it’s active. github.com/standardnotes/app
  
  I will check it out.
  
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  - warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Automattic, who owns Wordpress, also owns Standard Notes.
    
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fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Might not the thing you are looking for, but I tried to find a replacement for Keep a year ago and somehow stuck with a todo.txt file. It can be edited in a normal text editor but I use todo. Tx

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rambos@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Im using nextcloud notes and it works perfectly fine in browser/android app. Doesnt look good like google keep, but had no issues with it. Recently I also started using memos, it looks like super simple private twiter and it has awesome android/ios app called MoeMemos. Not sure about encription, but it looks amazing

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- rambos@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Check their web
  
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jetsetdorito@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Notesnook, whenever they release self hosting.

Nextcloud and Quillpad is decent.

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- clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  whenever they release self hosting.
  
  Are there any plans? I just got their 70% off on subscription and I like it, but it would be great if there’d be a self hosted server.
  
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  - jetsetdorito@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Self hosting is currently in progress
    
    notesnook.com/roadmap/
    
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ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ve been using Logseq and syncing via syncthing, but you can sync with any file syncing service

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bobbytables@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I use Nextcloud with Carnet. I haven’t used Keep in years so I don’t know the current features but when I made the switch to Carnet it was very comparable.

On Nextcloud it is an app you install separately. For your phone you’ll find Carner on f-droid. Sadly there is no client for iOS. Link https://www.getcarnet.app/

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Blizzard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I don’t even need it to be (self)hosted, it can be an offline Android app that looks and behaves like Keep, but is not made by Google.

So notes arranged together, tick boxes, reminders, dark theme.

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- notabot@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Have a look at Obsidian. It runs on a variety of devices, you can sync either with their system, or pretty much anything else, as it just stores your notes as markdown files, and you can arrange notes like that with the canvas system.
  
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danielfgom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That’s a fantasy I’m afraid. Just use Keep.

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- u_tamtam@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Why’s that? Keep looks and feels like a pretty basic note taking app, I don’t even see any of the usual google “secret sauce” that would make it better, smarter, or more embedded… what is it about keep that you find inimitable?
  
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