cross-posted from: https://fosstodon.org/users/notesnook/statuses/114059550980301173
Choose your warrior:
- @StandardNotes
- @[email protected] 🛡️
- @joplinapp
All of these are open source, private and encrypted. Of course, Notesnook is still the best 😉
#notetaking, #privacy, #security, #notesnook, #opensource
I found no replacement for notion that uses this block structure. I love it, but notion sucks so much aaaaaaassss. I wanna move, but every export feature breaks something in my structure and i hate it :(
What’s everyone’s goto app for sharing notes with others? I’m looking for something to share grocery lists and whatnot with my SO, and I want as little friction as possible.
I have some self-hosted services, but I didn’t like NextCloud notes and one or two others I’ve tried. It doesn’t need to be fancy, but I would very much like checkboxes that I can… check. I don’t need users, and honestly, no user accounts could be super nice, just attach a URL and go for it.
So yeah, slight preference for self-hostable services, but I’m fine with anything, provided it’s reasonably privacy friendly (nobody else needs to know the quantity or size of our sex toys lol).
Memos might work, I had it running for a week or two and it works well, very Google Keep like if that’s what you’re after. Edit woops, forgot the link lol https://github.com/usememos/memos
I have a Synology NAS which has the DS Note app which gives you self-hosted cloud notes on mobile. It’s not the best app but it’s better than google
Have hundreds of notes in Joplin so far… Awesome software!
Also using jollin. It’s pretty great
I’m a happy Obsidian user. It’s not open source but really good.
Google wants my shopping list and honey do lists that’s shared between my wife and I? Ok enjoy, wanna come help paint my office?
Shoutout to Logseq (AGPL licensed) https://logseq.com/
Found it was perfect for my ADHD.
What makes it different in regard to your ADHD?
Unlike every other note app I’ve ever used, you don’t need to organize things manually or manage an organizational hierarchy (like folders, etc). That’s where I always fall over in other apps, eventually. Organization happens automatically in Logseq.
It gives you a new, date-stamped journal entry everyday, and you jot down notes in that. You can link to other pages just by adding a hashtag or using 2 square brackets around some text. Each link/hashtag is automatically given its own page, and if you visit it, you’ll see all your mentions of this page, neatly organized in a chronological order by the date. So think about daily work on a project/goal, or anything around a specific topic, all of it is automatically organized for you.
Under the hood, all the links form a graph and Logseq is backed by a graph database, so it visualizes this graph for you and gives you some powerful querying tools on top of it too.
May I ask how did it help you?
Sadly there still isn’t a good alternative for real-time (live) collaboration
Onlyoffice works pretty great for that, and Libre office will have that shortly as well.
How are their android apps though? As far as I’m concerned, that is the difference between a word processor and a note application
Can someone please explain what is meant by being a few clicks away from notes being public or deleted?
Probably referring to the fact that, since a company hosts your notes, the notes are at their mercy.
They could delete them or release them. Accidentally or on purpose.
My guess they mean that you or someone on the app side can either purposely or accidentally make your notes public or delete them.
I chose Nextcloud Notes because I already have it anyway, and it’s good enough for me.
Just a friendly reminder that if you use an external nextcloud, that it is most likely unencrypted. The recommendations in the post body (or my own, like using https://cryptpad.fr/) are probably a better choice if you are not self hosting nextcloud yourself.
However if you are self hosting it, it should be fine 👍 KIM these are just recommendations :)
Jup, the main requirement for a notes app was that I was already selfhosting it :3
Just checking, glad you enjoy it :D
I still use a pen and notebook. But I have an excuse: I prefer pen and paper to write (and I’m starting to get old too) ;)
The only digital note taking app I still use is the one that comes with the E2EE filen.io cloud storage, from Germany. It certainly is very limited but it’s more than enough for my occasional note-taking usage and it’s synced everywhere I may need to access it.
I like Joplin, and I’ll use Standard Notes as soon as I don’t have to pay extra, I’m already paying Proton.
Is this really true about Keep? I mean, I know it’s a Google product, but is it really that insecure? I’ve never heard much negative stuff about it.
Switched to [email protected] awhile ago and I’m happy and content.
It has some rough edges but the UI is nice and it has all I need.
Sadly there is still no alternative to Notion (it’s not a note taking app, it’s database). Only SiYuan is somewhat close to Notion in its database capabilities, but comes with its own set of issues.
I would absolutely love to self-host real Notion alternative!
What about notes nook? https://notesnook.com/
Check out Docmost
There’s I sadly not a motion alternative. As the person you answered to said: notion is a fancy frontend nosql database. I’m forced to use it at work and have to admit it’s need three Foss tools to handle everything my employer does with notion (documentation, task management and planning, client collaboration, project coordination, budget planning, they use the full scope).
I’d still prefer docmost (thanks btw! Didn’t know it beforehand). No sell though for the full transfer.
And they is even without the “I need someone to shout at when something goes wrong” aspect the corporate world enjoys about “SAAS” (service my as, you just don’t allow me to install it myself).
My bad, I missed the part about the database. But at this point, what you’re looking for is probably not an alternative to Notion, but rather an alternative to Airtable, an actual no-SQL, no-code database. Fortunately there is great FOSS & self-hostable alternative to Airtable: NocoDB
Oh don’t be sorry, I was one of today’s lucky 10,000 because of your link!
Closest self host I found was Outline.