Hi.

I’m curently using Nextcloud notes for its convenience. I use the app on my phone, and the webui on my pc.

I’m willing to ditch Nextcloud as a whole, so I want to replace my note taking habits.

I’ve tried Trilium, which lacks an Android app, and I feel the WPA makes the UI unpractical and hard to read.

I’ve tried Joplin, but it lacks a webui.

Are there other alternatives I’ve missed out ?

Solution: I ended up finding Flatnotes. It’s dead simple to run and to use, has markdown and WYSIWYG, and the WPA is flawless.

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Obsidian

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I quite like Obsidian too. Markdown note app that has desktop & mobile versions. You can create templates and have it so that a new note using a template is opened automatically when you open the app (e.g. for daily notes). It also supports a lot of different community created plugins.

I sync across android & linux via google drive for free, otherwise Obsidian also has a paid sync feature.

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While there seems to be a selhosted version, I can’t log to it with the proprietary android app.

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I think you can just sync the Obsidian Directory with any cloud service or syncthing and it should work fine.

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yup, this is what I do and it works great. just be careful if you add plugins that store a ton of metadata that changes a lot (or logs) because that can lead to some sync conflicts and you might wanna exclude them. I’ve just been ignoring the sync conflicts tho and haven’t had issues yet so maybe you could do the same

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Came here to say the same thing.

At the end of the day you simply can not beat unreasonable effectiveness of plaintext.

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org-mode :P

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There are other note apps that can sync with Nextcloud. I settled on Quillpad because of its checklist functionality, though admittedly it’s not perfect.

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I’ve been using the most recent fork and it was good, but as I said, I want to ditch Nextcloud as a whole.

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Do you not plan to have any kind of cloud storage?

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I do, but I’ll be running FileRun or something alike

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As someone who is looking into having a nextcloud server running in the near future, may I ask why?

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I’m ditching my nextcloud as well. It’s just way too bloated. I wish they offered a stripped down version with only the features you want to use.

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Overbloated, slow and there’s always a problem needing to be solved

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Logseq can be launched as a desktop app and in a web browser and has both iOS and Android apps. Official sync is a paid feature but there are other options (e.g. Syncthing).

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That’s what I use.
Logseq with Syncthing for interoperability between my PC & smartphone.

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How does syncthing compair to git. Im using git currently but sycing to mobile has a tendancy to break

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No problems at all.
I setup a 3-way folder sync between 3 nodes:

  1. Desktop (Linux)
  2. Android
  3. VPS

VPS is always on, so even if my smartphone is not connected to the internet when I log off of my desktop, the smartphone automatically fetches the updated folder from the VPS .

I haven’t used git for this purpose but I’d think the process would be tedious. Manual commit, push, fetch …

Also, I tried to set it up with Nextcloud but I couldn’t get Android Logseq to use the Nextcloud folder for some reason. I don’t remember the exact issue.

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Second (or third?) Logseq. Bit of a learning curve, at least for me and overall it suits me much better than Standard Notes, which I was using previously. Standard Notes is now way overpriced compared to what it initially was, so great timing as well. One gripe I have with Logseq is you are unable to export queries as a page or text doc. It definitely has its quirks, though overall it’s great. And if anyone wants to share how they organise pages, tags, etc. feel free!

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I want to avoid syncthing for my notes as I’ve read some people experience issues with duplicates and conflicts between versions.

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Since it just uses markdown files in a directory, You could use anything to synchronise the state. E.g. nextcloud desktop or git

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Anytype - An open-source Notion alternative.

org-mode/org-roam in Emacs, on Orgzly mobile, synchronization via git.

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If you’ve used Anytype, can you share your experience? I have an account and I’d like to move over some of my Notion content, but haven’t had time to try it yet.

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No, I haven’t used Anytype, I know it as an alternative to cloud proprietary Notion/Obsidian

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Just a note taking app with support for different types of notes, templates, fields on notes for metadata etc.

I mostly use it to write down my ideas down and log tasks.

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