Currently I’m using Joplin with a Syncthing-backed synchronization. I’m pretty pleased with it and plan to switch to their server-based synchronization.
Before doing that, however, I wanted to see what other people are using.
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What's your favorite note-taking application?
Submitted 6 months ago by nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 months ago
cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There’s dozens of us
slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Tabs right?
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MellowSnow@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is the way
admin@lemmy.xcoolgroup.com 6 months ago
It automatically restoring all those unsaved notes has made me so lazy.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I do that for some random notes, but I prefer app like Obsidian for managing notes/todo lists for some stuff like projects, etc.
tristo7@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Obsidian is where I landed after trying several.
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 6 months ago
Just tried it for a bit. Looks pretty sleek and has some nice features, but it seems like it’s not open-source, which is something I’d like to avoid.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Then Logseq. It’s an outliner (each line can be it’s own…thing…), but it’s open source and a direct competitor of Obsidian. In fact, I was ambivalent between the two when I first started with online note-taking.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
I am not trying to defend Obsidian here in regards to its closed source but in the least the notes are not obscured in some database and use markdown format. So once they go away from that, I am out and still have all my notes accessible.
jaykay@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Joplin. Obsidian is not open source, doesn’t have native self hosting and it gets complicated. Joplin is very simple and just works. Although, it stores the notes in a hashed database, so you can’t edit raw files without Joplin
henrikx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Trilium for the same reasons, but the featureset of Trilium is more like Obsidian.
flubba86@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Trillium was originally created to be an open source replacement for Roam Research. It’s similarities to Obsidian are purely coincidental, probably because Obsidian is designed to be a cross between Roam and Evernote.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Good call on Obsidian not being FOSS! I don’t know that.
balancedchaos@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Obsidian. I know it’s not open source, but it just felt right.
tuhriel@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Yep just swapped over from a self hosted solution with gitlab and sublime… But that was to restrictive and the overall experience wasnt really good…
I then found a post somewhere on lemmy a post abotu PKMS and what people are using… One was obsidian… So I tried it and I’m really happy
UdeRecife@literature.cafe 6 months ago
Not being open source is the great… sin for me. Note taking is an investment in the future, and betting on a closed source platform is a big no no—for me, that is.
I know the content is safe in Obsidian, since it’s just Markdown files. But the workflow? Not so much.
And I know the developers behind Obsidian have their reasons to close source it. Nothing against that. But since that’s their way, it’s not my way.
observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Joplin as well, syching my 3 devices with the WebDAV option. I checked a few other options about a year ago and Joplin seemed the best.
nonmi9@programming.dev 6 months ago
Joplin is where I landed, as well as hosting my own Joplin Server.
If Obsidian allowed a free self hosted option, I would have picked it over Joplin. (Yes, I tried the free plugin, but it at times wouldn’t sync correctly and I would end up losing notes.)
AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
notion.so It’s a web-based editor with a good android app. Has basic formatting, plugins/integrations, and dark mode. It’s free for individual use cases. Has some nice paid features for collaboration and business use cases, though the free plan still allows sharing and concurrent editing.
MashedTech@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My only problem with them is the android app, while it has nice features it’s soo slow that even on flagship phones it is hard to use, and when you have multiple accounts switching between them is awful, either the files won’t load or it won’t refresh the interface at all. I usually switch the workspace and then restart the app. Sometimes I can’t open the subfiles of a file until I restart the app and wait for it to load.
shalva97@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think the reason for that is touch screen, it is only good for social media. I use Google Keep on Android because it is fast and later copy the notes to Notion.
powerofm@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Wish there was a self-hosted version of notion with all the same features
RobotDaniel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
The closest is nextcloud collectives, tables, tasks and deck
Kaldo@kbin.social 6 months ago
Logseq
Cyber@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Logseq.
I used Joplin in the past, but just didn’t quite get completely comfortable with it.
I also tried Nextcloud in the past… that project has become too big for my needs and the file syncing had issues.
Logseq is very similar to Joplin (ie markdown files), but IMHO the editor is easier with Logseq, plus the files are just simple plaintext files, named after the page title, so are easy to edit outside of the application (and immediately update in the app)
At first, I was a little unsure of Logseq’s default of working as a daily journal, but after a while it makes more sense for me - I use it at work, so 99.9% of my notes are meetings, tasks that occur during daily life… and of course those daily journals can refer to other “non-time based” project pages…
I also use syncthing to sync the notes between android phone, linux and Windows laptops and my NAS… so that wouldn’t change for you.
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Notepad
lseif@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
i heard about this a while back. unparallelled support for syntax, doesnt rely on a cloud service, incredible backwards-compatibility, and quick start-up time
PoopMonster@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Trillium although I wish it has multiple users on the same instance, other than that it’s amazing and suits my needs.
Scew@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I was a fan too, but lost the portable version I weas using when my usb died. The version I pulled off git now freezes every 10 seconds and closes itself down a lot. Not sure how they made it worse but it’s worse now.
johntash@eviltoast.org 6 months ago
Were you downloading master or the latest release? If you’re interested in using it, post the issue you have on their GitHub. The main dev is super helpful
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 6 months ago
cant you download the earlier version instead?
ericjmorey@programming.dev 6 months ago
Nice grid lined notebook and a mechanical pencil is still my favorite.
I like to use Google Keep for certain things, but I have a hard time explaining how thise thinggs are better for Google Keep.
I’m looking at giving Neorg a try.
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 6 months ago
A nice grid lined notebook and a mechanical pencil is still my favorite.
If only my default font wasn’t so bad that it causes data loss.
mlaga97@lemmy.mlaga97.space 6 months ago
I also really liked Google Keep. Carnet was at one point a decent drop-in replacement on Android+Nextcloud, but it got progressively bitrotted over time and now I just use Nextcloud Notes until I find something better.
stackPeek@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Obsidian, and there’s also another one that’s not yet self-hostable but planning to, called Notesnook
czardestructo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve been running the Joplin server for over a year with clients on four laptops and three phones and share notes with my wife and its wonderful. There are certainly quirks and sometimes sync issues but by and large I’m really happy with it. There seems to be one cluster of notes I have that always irritates a fresh client sync and it shows up at 50 conflicts but I work through it. Also my notebooks are huge and the first sync can take an hour. It’s a lot slower than I’d expect.
harsh3466@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve been running Joplin server for about two years now, and I concur. It’s been great.
eggshell9723@lemmy.id 6 months ago
I am currently on Obsidian without any sync at all. Using this in both desktop and mobile.
But used it more in mobile for an offline note-taking app where I could write and read them without any internet connection. Especially to load images from local, make categorization (folders) and more with data I had in my mobile.
While for desktop, I rarely opened it anymore. I am more into VIM with markdown format and then just push it to git host for a quicker note taking.
t0fr@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Logseq with Syncthing!
Love the journal style to it
kotnik@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Me too. Something about the bullet point style of note taking just clicked in me, and now I can’t go back.
calmluck9349@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Testing this out now.
KitchenNo2246@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Markor on Android and Obsidian on Desktop.
All synced with syncthing
garibaldi@startrek.website 6 months ago
I use Obsidian - it’s phenomenal! avidandrew.com/elevate-your-note-taking-with-obsi…
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Hi all, I created the !pkms@sh.itjust.works community for this exact reason.
PigeonCatcher@l.antiope.link 6 months ago
Emacs + org-mode for task planning and knowledge base, Obsidian + Syncthing for notes on-the-go.
ktowner15@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Holy crap I didn’t know Syncthing existed and just realized it’s perfect for my use case (taking D&D notes and keeping them on multiple devices). Thanks for the useful comment!
PigeonCatcher@l.antiope.link 6 months ago
You are welcome! :)
unsaid0415@szmer.info 6 months ago
Chiming in with my org mode setuo as well: -Keep notes on my NAS
- Mount NFS share with notes on desktop and edit with Emacs
- Create a WebDAV share of the notes (so shared both using nfs and webdav). Use the Android “Orgzly Revived” app from F-droid and log into the webdav share
I used to use Syncthing to avoid having both NFS and Webdav but it didnt sync
SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 6 months ago
Historically I’ve been using Google keep or one note (I’m a monster I know). I’ve been trying to see if I can migrate over to Nextcloud notes as I slowly de-FAANG my life.
MSgtRedFox@infosec.pub 6 months ago
I find it interesting that every product from Google/MS/Apple/etc is inherently evil in implications from our community.
I don’t mind OneNote, and like that it syncs to everything I use. I guess I’ve done IT/Infosec for 20+ years, so I don’t hate everything MS does, just some things :)
SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 6 months ago
Yeah, my “monster” comment was sarcasm. I’m in the same boat. I’ve been in IT for just as long and most places are Microsoft shops, with a little linux sprinkled in for flavor. I refuse to engage in the holy war. Msft, esp these days, makes decent tools and you can pry PowerShell from my cold dead hands. We use o365 at work and honestly OneNote is a solid product and does the job well.
For my personal life my note taking requirements are pretty basic and keep/onenote/etc… fits the bill. Esp since I share notes with my wife. But I’m a tinkerer at heart and I’d like to take more control of my services/data, so I’m experimenting with how much I can pull in without making my life overly and unnecessarily complicated.
Ramenator@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, I’m still stuck on Google Keep, since it’s the only one that’s integrated with the (even worse) Google home
SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 6 months ago
The convenience of saying, “Hey Google, add milk to my shopping list”, and having that list shared with my wife, is too great. Long term goals would be to find a self-hosted alternative but right now that’s where I am.
That being said I am trying to diversify as and pull in house what I can and notes is one of the things I’ve been experimenting with.
bmcgonag@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’d like to highly recommend QOwnNotes with. File system sync like Nextcloud. Superb.
calmluck9349@infosec.pub 6 months ago
I used this for a bit. I’m on obsidian now.
Moondance@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Emacs with org mode. It has so many feature hooked into so many other things such as time management, calendar, email, jupyter. Hard to switch.
refreeze@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Osiris@lemmy.world 6 months ago
+1 for memos. I use MoeMenos on android. I don’t need too many features in a memos app so it’s perfect for me
krelltunez@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I use Memos, but I didn’t like the MoeMemos app when I tried it. Text to small and horrible theme. I installed a shortcut to the Web client and it works great. I usually want dedicated mobile apps for the stuff I use, but Memos is so simple, I don’t think a mobile app is needed.
magmaus3@szmer.info 6 months ago
neovim + git with gitea/forgejo
BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I find Joplin perfect for my needs. Markdown, embedding images, links etc. I sync to my selfhosted nextcloud.
I like tags, I would like them to add a “directory tree” type of view to help sort “folders” (the thing they call “notebooks”) but only because I am more used to just filesystem type structured filing. But the notebooks and tagging idea works for me too.
I strictly use it for notes/note keeping, in particular “HOWTO’s” and specific topic notes. So I dont even do a great deal of markdown in my notes, but I love the ability to add screen captures etc to them for clarity.
And being on nextcloud, I can access those notes anywhere on any device, PC, Android, Raspberry Pi!! Joplin has an app for all of them
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 6 months ago
OneNote was my favorite until it started crashing on my iPad every 3 minutes.
logir@feddit.it 6 months ago
Logseq but I know the sync is tricky
t0fr@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
It’s been a piece of caking syncing it for me with Syncthing
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Joplin syncing on my Nextcloud instance. I love being able to quickly screenshot something on my laptop for reference and later retrieve it on my phone :)
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hi, is this syncing instantaneous, or periodic?
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
You can manually sync. Otherwise when you close it it syncs and you can also set the period for syncing.
spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I used to use Joplin, and its great, but the Electron client isn’t great on Linux mobile, so now I am using GNOME Paper on all devices, synced via Nextcloud. It’s much simpler than Joplin but I need exactly 0 of the missng features.
Rayspekt@kbin.social 6 months ago
I'm curious about changing to a Linux smartphone, on which device are you using Linux mobile?
spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Librem 5. I absolutely love it but also recognize it isn’t for everyone, yet.
Quik@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Logseq, it’s a lot like Obsidian as it also has knowledge graphs, tags, is markdown-based and self-hostable but, in contrast to Obsidian, it’s fully open source
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Much prefer Logseq as well.
Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Checking out Logseq now. I switched to Obsidian a few months ago and have been really liking it. Was time to switch it up from org-mode after YEARS of using it
UdeRecife@literature.cafe 6 months ago
Logseq user here too.
However, for a quick, transitory note, I use Kate or, more recently, Xpad. Only then I transcribe the content to Logseq. Why?
Because while Logseq is great as an outliner and for network thinking, it’s as graceful and agile as an elephant.
The gist of what I’m saying is: for now, and for me (hardware might be playing a role here, but I don’t think so) Logseq is a good note database. For quick typing, I have to use something else.