Hey everyone, I’m trying to replace most of the private owned app I use by FOSS ones, and today i’m pointing at notion.
I just use it as a way to organize my notes and use it both on my laptop and phone, and i’m looking for something that can have that fonctionnality.
I’ve already looked into a bunch of foss note taking apps but I didn’t see any that could do it. (maybe i didn’t look hard enough tho)
I’m willing to use syncthing or smth similar if needed.
do you have any recommendations? anyway, have a nice day and thanks to everyone making the internet/softwares more libre and accessible!
I’ve been using Zettle Notes with syncthing for a few years now. It syncs with my laptop as just a directory of markdown files that I also edit with Vim (plenty of good plugins like Vim wiki).
I’ve never used it, but I’ve heard good things about Notesnook.
Joplin. I use it on my phone, multiple laptops and Linux desktops.
Currently using siyuan. Just wish you could use the app with a self hosted instance.
Actually, you can use Signal for this, if you have it on both your phone and laptop, and use “note to self.” I prefer this because it’s very straightforward and isn’t bogged down with a lot of extraneous extra features that other notetaking apps I’ve tried tend to have.
It’s like obsidian (I hear) but FOSS. I love it and it’s by far the self hosted service I use most.
It stores your notes in a plain directory hierarchy of markdown files so you can just point a cron shell script at it to git add/commit/push at your desired internal and you’ve got history tracking/backups too
Edit: also provides a PWA so you can “install” it on your phone instead of always using a full browser.
Edit x2: includes a Lua interpreter so you can get scripty with it. I use that functionality more than I expected and I suck at Lua
Edit x3: and it auto synchs to each device when open with conflict detection. Full copy is stored local to each device, synched when possible
Lol
I just researched PWAs with this article.
PWAs aren’t a silver bullet, but when applied in the right contexts, they continue to offer undeniable benefits
Now you are telling me silverbullet(.md)
provides a PWA
Hehe. So PWAs aren’t a silver bullet but Silverbullet can be a PWA.
Is that one of those “all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares” type things?
I’m using Logseq and it’s the least bad of the FOSS options I tried so far.
I’ve been using a self-hosted Jotty instance, it’s been pretty great!
obsidian is not FOSS BTW
Joplin can sync between phone and laptop with a number of network storage options
https://joplinapp.org/help/apps/sync/
or you can self-host Joplin server.
https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/packages/server/README.md
In Joplin, I have never been able to successfully use an s3 instance with two or more joplin clients. It corrupts eventually. This is using a bucket for storage directly, not WebDAV.
From my research the best bet is self host, webdav, or some kind of file sync.
yeah I use webdav on my home NAS with just one phone and one laptop. probably going to self-host serve so I can do shared notes with the Baroness.
You can self host Anytype. It looks like notion, but is FOSS and total under your control.
notesnook
I use Joplin through some WebDAV with my cloud provider, kDrive.
Works perfectly once set up.
I don’t know if you could make it work directly from your phone to your computer though.
Is there something wrong with Standard Notes that I should be aware of? It hasn’t been mentioned here. It has the AES-256 encryption standard, there is a free tier, it’s open source and it undergoes regular security audits.
Obsidian + Syncthing has been working prefectly for several years now for me, across Windows, Android and Linux.
