Hi.

I’m curently using Nextcloud notes for its convenience. I use the app on my phone, and the webui on my pc.

I’m willing to ditch Nextcloud as a whole, so I want to replace my note taking habits.

I’ve tried Trilium, which lacks an Android app, and I feel the WPA makes the UI unpractical and hard to read.

I’ve tried Joplin, but it lacks a webui.

Are there other alternatives I’ve missed out ?

Solution: I ended up finding Flatnotes. It’s dead simple to run and to use, has markdown and WYSIWYG, and the WPA is flawless.

  • roger_fediverse@kbin.social
    15·
    1 year ago

    Logseq can be launched as a desktop app and in a web browser and has both iOS and Android apps. Official sync is a paid feature but there are other options (e.g. Syncthing).

    • HMN@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Second (or third?) Logseq. Bit of a learning curve, at least for me and overall it suits me much better than Standard Notes, which I was using previously. Standard Notes is now way overpriced compared to what it initially was, so great timing as well. One gripe I have with Logseq is you are unable to export queries as a page or text doc. It definitely has its quirks, though overall it’s great. And if anyone wants to share how they organise pages, tags, etc. feel free!

        • exception4289@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          No problems at all.
          I setup a 3-way folder sync between 3 nodes:

          1. Desktop (Linux)
          2. Android
          3. VPS

          VPS is always on, so even if my smartphone is not connected to the internet when I log off of my desktop, the smartphone automatically fetches the updated folder from the VPS .

          I haven’t used git for this purpose but I’d think the process would be tedious. Manual commit, push, fetch …

          Also, I tried to set it up with Nextcloud but I couldn’t get Android Logseq to use the Nextcloud folder for some reason. I don’t remember the exact issue.

          • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I might have to try syncthing then im sure i can use git for versioning my notes from just one node and retain that feature. I use logseq so on desktop git syncing is automatic.

    • Tiritibambix@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I want to avoid syncthing for my notes as I’ve read some people experience issues with duplicates and conflicts between versions.

      • emhl@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Since it just uses markdown files in a directory, You could use anything to synchronise the state. E.g. nextcloud desktop or git

    • kambusha@feddit.chEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I quite like Obsidian too. Markdown note app that has desktop & mobile versions. You can create templates and have it so that a new note using a template is opened automatically when you open the app (e.g. for daily notes). It also supports a lot of different community created plugins.

      I sync across android & linux via google drive for free, otherwise Obsidian also has a paid sync feature.

      • tromars@feddit.deEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        I think you can just sync the Obsidian Directory with any cloud service or syncthing and it should work fine.

        • NullPointerException@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          yup, this is what I do and it works great. just be careful if you add plugins that store a ton of metadata that changes a lot (or logs) because that can lead to some sync conflicts and you might wanna exclude them. I’ve just been ignoring the sync conflicts tho and haven’t had issues yet so maybe you could do the same

    • Nine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Came here to say the same thing.

      At the end of the day you simply can not beat unreasonable effectiveness of plaintext.

    • I need NOS@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      If you’ve used Anytype, can you share your experience? I have an account and I’d like to move over some of my Notion content, but haven’t had time to try it yet.

      • nothendev@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Just a note taking app with support for different types of notes, templates, fields on notes for metadata etc.

        I mostly use it to write down my ideas down and log tasks.

      • fireshell@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        No, I haven’t used Anytype, I know it as an alternative to cloud proprietary Notion/Obsidian

  • thirdBreakfast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I started on a similar journey (escaping from Evernote rather than Nextcloud), and ended up on Silverbullet run at home and accessed over Tailscale. It is a bit of a different approach and has a small upfront learning time. I love having all my notes as reasonably plain markdown, so if I ever want to change my solution, my data’s in an easily movable format - for example changing to Obsidian would not involve any import/export.

    • Deebster@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      That looks really interesting, I’m fairly happy with Joplin but SB looks like how I’d do things if I wrote something like this.

  • I need NOS@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Notesnook is not ready for self-hosting yet, but it’s up next on their roadmap. I’ve been trying it out in advance and it seems to work ok. The only issue I have with it is that it logs you out of the apps way too often.

  • digger@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Are there certain features you’ve grown to rely on?

    I use plaintext documents with markdown. There’s a markdown editor for the web. Markor is an excellent Android app. Take your pick of a number of text editors with markdown.

  • guajojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    The WebApp for trillium works great compared to the desktop app. You won’t tell a difference

  • techgearwhips@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Joplin via Dropbox (free account) is effortless and painless. I used to sync it via nextcloud and it always gave me issues. It has an iOS, Android, and Desktop app so why do you need Web Ui?

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      A webui can be extremely useful on, say, a work computer with strict install policies, or if you’re borrowing someone else’s machine and need to look something up (maybe you’re fixing or installing something on someone else’s computer and want your notes easily accessible).

  • Deebster@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It is odd that there’s no web app for Joplin given that it’s written in TypeScript. It’s such a commonly requested feature, I wonder what the problem is.

  • gezepi@lemmyunchained.netEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    There are other note apps that can sync with Nextcloud. I settled on Quillpad because of its checklist functionality, though admittedly it’s not perfect.

    • Tiritibambix@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been using the most recent fork and it was good, but as I said, I want to ditch Nextcloud as a whole.

      • JGrffn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        As someone who is looking into having a nextcloud server running in the near future, may I ask why?

          • AtmaJnana@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            It can be slow out of the box, but if you set up locking/memcaching (I use APCu+redis), it’s way faster.

            I get not wanting to mess with it though. I was at that point until I got more free time. Now I have mine running smoothly, but I had to put in maybe 10 hours to iron out all the things, although that includes upgrading the host OS because it had gotten old. If I had a full time job, I’d probably just pay for a fully hosted NC.

        • techgearwhips@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m ditching my nextcloud as well. It’s just way too bloated. I wish they offered a stripped down version with only the features you want to use.