I’m so sorry. I didn’t consider the starting thread.
Why Joplin? The best compromize of all from the technical point of view.
I spend the money for a basic plan and synchronize it via Joplin Cloud based in France.
I use Joplin with encryption activated on Android, CashyOS, QubesOS and NixOS and never had any problems with synching of any notes even while using it simultanesly.
I like open source and it’s not US based.
Yes, the UX could be better but this is secondary for me.
You can export Joplin as a MD file tree and import it into cherrytree for example. Then you can use it as a local recovery even inside GhostBSD.
No worries at all. I am interested in knowing more about other note apps anyway, just in case there is one out there that is perfect for me.
I would also prefer open source, but I have still not found an app I like using more than Obsidian. I originally started using it years ago when I had enough of physical notes for my D&D campaigns. Obsidian’s plugins are basically essential for me at this point.
Unsure if it’s been mentioned or if it’s a preference.
But I really like Appflowy, been using it for roughly a year now. It’s like Notion but it’s stored locally and Syncs with other devices if you have an account.
If you don’t want any syncing, you can just make an offline anon account. It’s been my favorite thus far.
As someone who works professionally in the field, yes, markdown is still a regularly used thing. Look at the readme for 90% of Github projects, they’re in markdown!
Teams regularly use it internally for quick technical docs.
No one said teams. Using teams for documentation of any sort seems stupid but that’s just me. Shouldn’t presume others don’t also work with git and other things on a tech forum.
Question was note taking, not tech docs. I said one note was most used and also suggested a markdown editor which I personally use cause I’m a boomer and it syncs to my personal Nextcloud, but to suggest markdown editors are more used than one note is hilarious.
Somehow the developers and the infrastructure has to be paid. In a way you can pay with money or with your private data and with ads beiing shown to you.
But to have a solution that is polished and well made and costs nothing is kinda on the back of people doing work for free.
Spurred on by the thread, I finally got off my butt and set up Nextcloud with Tailscale for remote access. It’s working great and I feel like my options have opened up.
Actually, this feels a little too powerful. Going to be messing around with this toy for a long time, I think.
I ended up with Upnote, which is not a free solution. But, it syncs well which is great for me. I’m sure if you can set up an automatic syncing solution with Obsidian, that could also work, I just wanted to skip that setup headache.
I second the recommendation for Trilium Notes. It is also available as an Flatpak. I’ve been using it for over a year and it has been solid. It’s been extremely clean and flawless for me.
It can import and export markdown. Internally it is simplified HTML. This turns out to be a good thing for pasting from websites.
In my browser I use a markdown plugin and with it I add markdown data into my notes from my browser. There is also a chrome and firefox plugin and it works well. The markdown plugin is by 0x6b and entitled Copy Selection as Markdown and at the time appeared to be one of the most privacy respecting ones.
There is a mobile app that I don’t use. It seems basic and as I understand it. This may have changed.
There is also a fork called Trilium Next. I use the original still (the programmer of the original is a clean coder). But I may one day switch to the Next fork.
It is intended to be hosted and the hosting would normally be your own server. There are also public servers for at-the-time low costs. Not sure about E2E for the public servers. I don’t use the hosted version yet. Instead I run it locally and I manually update the db over the network in the spirit of sneaker-net, which would also work. It’s just one file I need to copy over (in the way I do it).
See https://github.com/zadam/ and check out the repository for Trilium and TriliumNext. Also check out the mobile app and other related repos.
I believe the original zadam version flatpak that I use is this one: