Preferably an application that you can sync and save. Not sure what alternatives are safe in terms of privacy and security.
Notesnook. There’s quite a lot of private, secure, foss note taking apps, take your pick. Just check what features they have, eg some of them have no encryption at rest
I’m excited to see they’re going fully open source. Looks like the last steps to making the sync server self-hostable are in the works. Do you use their paid service? If so: any complaints or caveats?
I do use their paid service, though I’m considering cancelling to switch to using a markdown editor with syncthing for notes. I wouldn’t have any complaints about the paid service specifically. I’d say it’s a fair enough deal if you can get it on a sale. My reasons for wanting to switch are because I don’t like using cloud services when unnecessary, and to a lesser extent I’d prefer a native app over an electron app
@clark I used Notally at first, but I wanted cross-device syncing at some point. So I discovered this app by a developer called Bill The Farmer, which this is insanely small (just a few KB). I keep my notes in pCloud. I’m not sure how private it is, but I am thinking of storing them inside a veracrypt container, synced with pCloud instead, and I am also keeping an eye on other options that have the ability of storing notes as Markdown files.
I’m keeping an eye for now on Quillpad ver. 1.5 but I’m open to other options as well. 😁
I’m gonna try out Quillpad. Seems relatively okay, gonna read some reviews later. Pretty cool you can save your notes in a zip document if you don’t have NextCloud.
Notepad++, local files
Believe it or not… Vimwiki (&& syncthing for synchronisation across my machines)
it’s rather no nonsense idk. I’m not even a vim wizard, I just know the bare basics
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yes, I am completely serious (much faster to use on mobile too compared to a visual editor)
I tried most of what people have mentioned, but eventually found that MD files just worked best for me. So Nextcloud Notes became my default.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.niedermann.owncloud.notes
QuillPad on Android and I don’t have a favorite on desktop yet
Just to add to the noise… I’m shocked that Obsidian is not the number one app that people are talking about. Didn’t even know there were so many other great options, to be honest.
Edit: it’s because it’s not open source. The plugins all have to be open source, and it is free as in beer. I’m keeping this comment up.
