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.
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).
That’s what I use.
Logseq with Syncthing for interoperability between my PC & smartphone.
How does syncthing compair to git. Im using git currently but sycing to mobile has a tendancy to break
No problems at all.
I setup a 3-way folder sync between 3 nodes:
- Desktop (Linux)
- Android
- 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.
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!
I want to avoid syncthing for my notes as I’ve read some people experience issues with duplicates and conflicts between versions.
Obsidian
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.
While there seems to be a selhosted version, I can’t log to it with the proprietary android app.
I think you can just sync the Obsidian Directory with any cloud service or syncthing and it should work fine.
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
I asked this a couple of weeks ago, there were many solid suggestions: https://lemm.ee/post/4593760
I ended up with Joplin and am very happy with it.
Anytype - An open-source Notion alternative.
org-mode/org-roam in Emacs, on Orgzly mobile, synchronization via git.
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.
I started on a similar journey (escaping from Evernote rather than Nextcloud), and ended up on Silverbullet run at home and accessed over Tailscale. It is a bit of a different approach and has a small upfront learning time. I love having all my notes as reasonably plain markdown, so if I ever want to change my solution, my data’s in an easily movable format - for example changing to Obsidian would not involve any import/export.
