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?
obsidian is not FOSS BTW
I’m using Logseq and it’s the least bad of the FOSS options I tried so far.
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.
I’ve been using a self-hosted Jotty instance, it’s been pretty great!
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.
