What's your favorite note-taking application?
What's your favorite note-taking application?
Currently I'm using Joplin with Syncthing-backed file system synchronization. I'm pretty pleased with it, as I do like tagging- and Markdown-based systems.
I plan to upgrade to server-based synchronization, but before doing that, however, I wanted to see what other people are using.
Edit: So far I see a slight favor towards Joplin and Logseq, but I totally didn't expect (and appreciate) getting so many different answers.
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OneNote. Don't love being super reliant on all the Microsoft Office cloud stuff but there really isn't anything that comes close to what I use it for
Yeah, I know this is the self hosted community, but nothing is as easy and straightforward as OneNote. I keep coming back to it after trying self hosted solutions.
What do you use it for? If you don't mind me asking. I tried a few times to like it before I started my selfhost/open source journey earlier this year and couldn't click with it. But curious what it does that you haven't found an alternative for.
Not the same person but a couple of the reasons I can't get away from it are:
-ability to "print" a pdf in to it and directly markup the pages without having to open the actual file in another application (it also runs OCR on the pages so they remain searchable)
-you can also "print" PowerPoint presentations in a similar way
-it handles inking with a pen super well
I have lots of academic papers and presentations that I routinely reference for my job so these are killer features for me
Yep, those are features I wouldn't use. Sounds like the ideal situation, thanks for sharing!
Not OP, but:
- It works on any platform.
- You can share and collaborate on notes (great for family to-do lists and shopping lists).
- File based, but intelligently synced.
- Nested tree structure to organise notes.
- Free form formatting, including positioning.
- Inking support and OCR.
If you can think of any note taking feature, 99% it's already there and works like a charm.
I use it for a mix of text, handwriting/drawing, PDF annotation and image annotation, and I also pretty heavily rely on realtime sync between my devices. If none of that is stuff you use then I can see why you might want something simpler
Yeah, handwriting can be added to Obsidian, but it's a bit hacky and I don't use it. As far as instant sync, it is solid, but expensive. Some folks use Syncthing but I couldn't get it to work reliably so I but the bullet and paid for Obsidian Sync.