Hi all, I need your expertise please :)
tldr: I’m looking for something to create and share lists with my wife, but that also allows her to edit them, preferably with a WYSIWYG editor, on both our Android devices and Windows and Linux computers. To complicate things, I help to run a small music festival, and some sort of collaboration tool would be helpful there too. Joplin looks great, but I can’t figure out the collaboration without using their server.
The longer version is, I’m taking my family to visit the in-laws, and was making a list of things we need to take. I have complicated medical needs, and my kid is autistic, so there are things that we cannot forget. I realised that a list that we can both work on would be better, and would be something that we could use in the future for things like medical appointments.
While I was looking for some software, I realised that it would also be helpful for the music festival committee.
I’m looking for something that we can edit on any device, and have the changes show up immediately on any other logged in device. I want anyone with permission to be able to edit the document too. Ideally it needs a WYSIWYG editor, and needs to be simple to use once it’s set up.
Joplin looks great, but it’s not clear whether collaboration is only available through Joplin Cloud, or whether it’s available with a self hosted server.
Etherpad and Padland look good, but Etherpad doesn’t currently have mobile support, and I can’t tell whether Padland is standalone or needs Etherpad to work.
I’m happy to self host something, but the simpler it is to run and use, the better :)
Thanks for reading through all of that :D
Since you mentioned Etherpad-lite :
Thanks for the suggestions :)
I did have a look at Hedgedoc, but I thought it was for making online content, rather than private. I’ve probably got it wrong though :)
It’s one of the problems I find with some open source projects, they assume that you know what the project does. They don’t expect clueless people like me :D
I’ll have a look at Cryptpad, thanks :)
With etherpad-lite the default is guest mode and no protection at all (but I’ve seen that with plugins user accounts can be made). With Hedgedoc and Cryptpad user accounts can be made and I think with that “private” protected pads are possible.
I don’t know why nobody has mentioned Anytype, which is excellent and just recently added collaboration.
!anytype would fit the bill nicely. But it’s important to keep in mind that it is still in heavy development.
That being said, it costs nothing to give it a try, it’s practically seamless to get started with. :)
This is tough.
I use OneNote as my notebook currently. It updates very fast on phone and pc. It’s not ideal for your use-case, perhaps. But you can share notebooks easily. (Though no Linux client, you can edit notebooks in a browser if they’re on Onedrive).
I also use a couple shopping list apps, my current go to is Anylist. I have a bunch of lists in there, and easily shareable, great for shopping with other people. But I also use it for packing lists, task lists, etc, and you can login via a browser, which works well. Sync is instant.
I’ve tried a few other notebook type apps (Joplin, etc,) and they all have their pros/cons.
Maybe hit the self-hosting community, there’s an ongoing discussion about notebooks.
Thanks for the reply :)
I didn’t know that OneNote could share. That might be ok for at home. I’ll have a look at Anylist too. Ideally though, I want to try to go with open source software.
I’ll have a look for the discussion now, thanks :)
Oh yea, I get the push for open source. It’s why I’ve tried 3 or 4 open source apps already - I really want to get away from OneNote (I’ve been using it for about 15 years, it’s a cluttered mess). It’s a great piece of software, but it requires either OneDrive or a SharePoint server to sync to mobile devices. To sync between PCs, you just need a shared folder - the app is smart about updates all on it’s own (at least for a few people).
Eventually I’ll settle on a replacement. And then do the work of transitioning all that data…Sigh.
I’m looking for the same thing, simply an app that allows 2 people to edit a list with no ads. No luck so far.
