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OrkneyKomodo Aug 13, 2023

Recommendations for a FOSS Cross-Platform Note-Taking Application

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/2057363

Recommendations for a FOSS Cross-Platform Note-Taking Application - SDF Chatter

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.

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pH3ra Aug 13, 2023

Joplin + Syncthing is great, as other people suggested.
I keep it even more simple: I write stuff in markdown, share my .md files with Syncthing and edit them with markdown editors.
The best I’ve tried so far for Android is Markor, while on Linux I either use Ghostwriter (on KDE) or Marker (on Gnome)

GitHub - gsantner/markor: Text editor - Notes & ToDo (for Android) - Markdown, todo.txt, plaintext, math, ..

Text editor - Notes & ToDo (for Android) - Markdown, todo.txt, plaintext, math, .. - gsantner/markor

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ffhein Aug 13, 2023

If you want a really fancy markdown note-taking app try obsidian.md. Unfortunately not FOSS, but free for non-commercial use.

Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking

The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.

Obsidian

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ScreaminOctopus Aug 13, 2023

I’ve been using a Foss alternative called Logseq that’s very similar.

A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base

A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.

logseq

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imperator Aug 14, 2023

Does logseq have tagging and an ability to query like data view in obsidian?

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ScreaminOctopus

It’ll automatically show tagged blocks from other pages in a special section. I don’t know if it has anything as advanced as data view though, I haven’t felt the need for anything other than displaying references. The plugin ecosystem seems decent, but I mostly just use basic functionality.