What do you use for notes?
I've gone handwritten, obsidian, onenote, and now Trilium. Considering switching to something else because there is no offline mobile support.
I use memos and trilium together but since neither offers mobile offline support considering switching both. No reason to run two services when I could run one.
Considering:
Joplin for many years. I use my Nextcloud to sync between desktops and mobile. It saves notes locally on each devive, so offline mode works nicely.
I have a trillium sync server setup, and connect to my network using a VM. The web interface works well enough for what I need it to do. I really wish there was an app for my phone, though.
Markor on Android to edit Markdown files synced with Syncthing to computers over Wireguard and edit with Neovim
I cannot recommend Silver Bullet enough
This was the missing piece of the puzzle I needed to actually get organized and write things down. The graph based linking system allows me to link ideas together without any sort of hierarchy, which I adore.
I mostly use this to DM my groups Pathfinder campaign, but also use it for general note taking as well.
Well this is dope, me likely. thanks
I have to admit I prefer Obsidian, even though it's not self hosted.
But all of my data is local. Even if I use Obsidian Sync and Obsidian goes under, I still have all my files on different machines (on top of regular backups) and I can use some other Markdown editor.
Obsidian with Obsidian-git (https://github.com/Vinzent03/obsidian-git) to sync
https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync
Works very well on android and windows /linux clients.
Syncing is automatic and happens in seconds. I think the git solution had a few issues on android but I've never used it
This is what i use. Its awesome
Markdown files in either git or Nextcloud. Mostly VS Codium for editing them but also Kate, Vim, or whatever else is available on the machine I'm using.
I second markdown with Nextcloud notes and I'll add Markor as Android markdown editor. I use the Nextcloud Android client to sync my notes folder. On desktop I use any text editor that has markdown syntax highlighting and/or Nextcloud Notes app on the web.
Obsidian, any day, all day.
I love it so much that I live in near constant fear for them to somehow enshittify it 😔
TBH I'm still using Onenote, I haven't found a good replacement for it.
OneNote is such a frustration for me. There are things about it I hate, and I’d certainly like to not have stuff in Microsoft’s hands, but I still can’t find an alternative that syncs well across all my platforms, has good stylus support and has the basic canvas freedom.
I’ve been trying to demo xournal++ on my old surface pro 6, but have been having a pretty hard time getting the stylus to stay working. People are doing great work on getting Linux dirivers and support for tablet stuff, but it still feels pretty in its infancy. My iPad, just works very well for touch and stylus use cases and will be hard to move on from.
Do you use hand written notes?
I eventually want to get an android writing tablet and while searching for an app, I keep coming back to onenote.
Yeah sometimes, mostly I just like having a page where I can place things wherever I want, like tables, CSV files, PDFs, images, etc.
Vim to edit markdown files. I use syncthing to sync between phone and other devices. I edit using markor on android.
I've tried other software, but usually discover that vim keybinds dont exist (even as a plugin) or opening as plain old markdown isnt available, so I give up and try the next one. I've finally accepted that for me, vim and markdown is my endgame note taking solution.
It sounds like you've found something that works for you, but if you're interested in trying other things obsidian stores and renders in plain markdown, and also has a vim mode
I've been using Joplin for years. I self host Joplin server for sync as well. Join does support offline use. Each device has a local copy of the notes and if you're offline you can use the app to access and edit existing notes as well as creating new ones. When you regain a connection the sync will automatically update the notes and those updates will proliferate to any other devices with Joplin
Notesnook and standard notes for sync. Txt file if i dont need.it to sync
Joplin for a while, but most recently I've been trying out Notesnook and really liking it.
Does not have offline support tho ... https://github.com/outline/outline
Anytype is local/offline first, P2P, end to end encrypted, open source, and has a great mobile app. They provide a (storage limited) cloud backup peer for free. You can either self host that yourself, or just rely on P2P syncing with your other devices. I’ve been using it for years and really like it.
I use Joplin with their selfhosted beta server. I'm pretty happy with it except for the search which is absurdly bad (ctrl-p searchterm to show all notebooks containing the term,selectt one, then search the notebook with ctrl-f. If this isn't what you were looking for go to ctrl-p again. Search the next notenbook. And ctrl-p again. 🤢)
I looked at Joplin before switching to Obsidian from OneNote. It has a mobile app but I don't know if it does local storage or not.