Up to now I’ve been using Simplenote, which has a Linux client (but also Android & iOS) & supports live collaboration on notes. However, Simplenote hasn’t had a meaningful update for a long time, & it’s recently been behaving strangely, e.g. notes undeleting themselves, line duplications & undeletions.

Can anyone recommend an alternative? Spinning up an ownCloud/nextcloud instance just to use Joplin feels a little overkill. I stumbled across turtl, but the project looks abandoned.

  • sLLiK@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’ve used vim with a smattering of essential plugins for years to do this, and only this year moved to Neovim for the same.

    It’s not Open Source, but I’ve also taken a hefty liking to Obsidian’s canvas mode. Likewise, I share a small selection of lists with my other half via Google Keep.

  • codecarter@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    2 years ago

    Trilium with trilium web clipper plugin, moememos with its web plugin and linkding with its plug in. Been able to keep up with all notes with this trio

  • FOSS Is Fun@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    You don’t need your own server to use Joplin. You can select a local directory to store your notes and sync this directory with Syncthing between devices.

    I am not sure if this works with iOS though.

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
    21·
    2 years ago

    I just sync a directory called “Notes” everywhere and use whatever text editor is most comfortable on any given platform to edit Markdown documents. Helix on desktop, Markor (or, increasingly, Simple Text Editor) on Android. For checklists, same thing except I use todo.txt for the file format, and the todo script on the desktop and Simpletask on Android.

    I have been looking for a self-hosted, concurrent collaborative web editor, as asking my wife to write Markdown is a bit much, and the syncing becomes more complex, but I haven’t settled on something.

    • krash@lemmy.ml
      0·
      2 years ago

      Hedgedoc is a competent selfhostable alternative. V2.0 is around the corner.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        Thanks, Hedgedoc looks like a neat project. It’s focused on Markdown, which is nice, and the preview is handy. The editor requires some knowledge of Markdown, and willingness to use it in some instances, which means it won’t be the best option for my wife. While she’s certainly capable of learning markdown, she has no willingness - it’s one of those areas where she just can’t be arsed to fuss with it. Embedding images, for example, and even seeing the markup while she’s editing is distracting for her.

        Anyway, I need to find some WYSIWIG editor. If it saves and loads markdown, all the better, but it’s more important that the editor lool Word-ish, which is what she has to use at work.

        Thanks for the pointer, though!

  • Dave@lemmy.nz
    1·
    2 years ago

    Joplin has multiple sync options. Other than Nextcloud, you can use OneDrive, Dropbox, and they have a subscription service as well.

    Obsidian is another to look at, but you need to either pay for sync or bring your own sync (though I don’t know that you can sync to mobile without using their sync edit: see below comment by @[email protected] that explains how to do it).

    I think it’s probably helpful to know if sync across platforms is important to you, and if so, whether you’re willing to pay for it. I’m not sure that there are really many alternatives to an app provided for free with free syncing - that costs money to provide and honestly I’d be a bit dubious about using a service like that.

    • FOSS Is Fun@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      You can select a local folder in Obsidian for Android and sync the folder with Syncthing. You can even revoke network permissions for Obsidian and it all works completely offline (Flatpak override: --unshare=network / GrapheneOS: don’t allow the network permission).

      This is my current setup, even though Obsidian is not FOSS. I like that it stores standard Markdown files in a traditional filesystem hierarchy, instead of what Joplin does with using Markdown files as a database. This means that with Obsidian I can use any text editor or any other Markdown app to access and edit my notes, whereas with Joplin I would have to export them first to standard Markdown and then potentially rename and reorganise all the files and their attachments.

      • Xephopiqua@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        Unfortunately with iOS you are stuck with Obsidian Sync because Syncthing does not work because of the permission model. Otherwise I prefer Obsidian over Joplin for the above mentioned reasons and nice extension ecosystem. It’s easy to get your files out of Obsidian, no vendor lock-in

    • krdo@lmmy.net
      1·
      2 years ago

      I do the same, and eventually I started using Obsidian on top, but you can always switch to something else that opens markdown (vim!)

  • Roane@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Depends on what method h use for note taking.

    If it’s not that professionally or for research purposes used then simple note is great.

    If it’s about research data then obsidian.

    Also u will obviously find it difficult to find a good FOSS app for note taking that many of them won’t support sync and collaboration.

  • Minty95@lemm.ee
    1·
    2 years ago

    For note taking, Joplin is pretty good, in fact I went from Simplenote to Evernote (over kill and not free) to Joplin using Dropbox for the syncing (syncing is done by Joplin, so you don’t need a ‘syncing’ app) between my PCs, all Linux and my Android phone. Simple to set up and free. I do not use it as a Journal as that is extremely poor, but for notes, it’s perfect

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      It’s worth noting that although they offer paid cloud sync, the Joplin app can sync through any synced storage mechanism so you can effectively bring your own.