@tscriado

I tried Joplin for a while but had trouble syncing between phone and pc. I use #obsidian for my non-ethnographic data (because I'd want to encrypt it for ethnographic data and haven't looked into that yet). Phone synching is possible I believe either through their subscription or with your own cloudservice. I really love obsidian for its combination of a) a simplistic, non-vendor lock-in system with b) quite a lot of customisation options and a very active online community sharing ideas and creating plugins.
For ethnographic data I use @notesnook. It's a small company similar to standardnotes. All the good privacy stuff you want for ethnography; open source and zero knowledge encryption. They support Evernote import and have accessible plans for education.

@tscriado @sjanep @notesnook Horrible Evernote story. I actually had the same journey moving from Joplin to Obsidian. Joplin always felt slightly too clunky. Obsidian feels more natural and powerful, especially with the new Canvas feature. We use Obsidian for our projects for documentation, excerpts, text drafts, and coding of interviews. We sync via the Cloud or SyncThing.

There are also a thousand community plugins, but I try to use as few as possible. Beware of productivity YouTube.

@stefanlaser @tscriado

Ha I fully agree about productivity YouTube
I am curious to learn more about how you go about collaborating via obsidian - only if you are open to share more in detail of course.
You use one vault? In that case; do you struggle with knowing who made edits? How do you go about coding interviews? I'd be very interested to find out how to do this in obsidian instead of nvivo etc.

@sjanep @tscriado We love sharing our experience. In fact, our research centre (16 projects) has an INF project with this purpose in mind, helping us.

So, we have 1 major vault for our project, 4 people take part. It's organized w/ #Johnnydecimal and #Zettelkasten. Meeting notes, lit. notes, research, articles. Sync via Nextcloud. Sometimes we have conflicts. We add hashtags for todos or authorship.

Coding is in a separate, encrypted vault. Simple yet effective design: https://github.com/LaserStefan/obsidian-qualitative-analysis-environment