Free and Open Source Software

17932 readers

110 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Yet another request for a note taking app (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

45 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hello! I'm still not satisfied with my note taking app. I tried dozen of them, read tons of lists on random blogs on the internet, without any success. I'll try to ask you then.

I'm looking for a note taking app with just this 3 features:

richtext/WYSIWYG (i don't want to write plain text and then press a button to see it rendered)
it has to support CHECKBOXES! Most of the apps I tried does not support them, or supported them only if all the note was a checklist. I don't want a checklist, I want a note where I can put some checkbox inside!
FOSS and active

The one I'm currently using is obsidian, but it's not FOSS and it feels very overcomplicated for a simple note apps.

Any suggestion is welcome!

EDIT: forgot to mention, I'm talking about Android XD

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I'm looking for the same thing but with the added difficultly of wanting live collaboration in notes, primarily so I can use it for grocery shopping with my partner, but for other stuff we do together, too. Hedgedoc 2.0 is what I have my eye on the most.

The current Hedgedoc checks boxes 2 and 3 for you, but not box 1. You can check/uncheck checkboxes in view mode, though. I'm at the point now where I don't really care too much about having a wysiwyg editor for my workflow, but I understand if it's not what you need.

They have a demo here: https://demo.hedgedoc.org/

The other biggest downside is how 1.x handles navigating to different notes. It uses a "history" page which works alright, but isn't very organized. 2.0 will include an "explore" page that will be much better.