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What is your favourite FOSS notes application? (midwest.social)

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Preferably an application that you can sync and save. Not sure what alternatives are safe in terms of privacy and security.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

On a desktop/laptop (or really anywhere I can run CLI apps and use a proper keyboard) it's mostly plain text files in Vim or Emacs. On my phone I recently switched from Standard Notes to Notesnook. Standard Notes is pretty powerful, uses end-to-end encryption by default, and can be self-hosted. The premium subscription is pretty expensive though. (Yes, it also requires a license when self-hosting. It's cheaper, but still kinda expensive). Last year, there was also some controversy about the licensing. They recently got acquired by Proton.

Notesnook is fully FOSS, but they still haven't released a self-hostable sync server. They are working on it though. It's currently my go-to option.

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I just discovered a new app called Beaver Notes that I'm very excited to try out.

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Joplin is another great option, it's available on all platforms and even has a CLI, it also supports E2EE, but it has to be enabled manually. Can be self-hosted: https://github.com/etechonomy/joplin-server. I think I will switch to self-hosted, end-to-end encrypted Joplin in the long term, so I can have all my notes unified in one app. The CLI app is really useful for me, as I already use the Terminal to take notes when using a desktop/laptop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ooo vi how fancy! (The jealous inner dialogue wishing I knew more vi commands) 😝🤣

edit: it's like when you're programming and you need to use regex, but like you don't know it, but you should, and you need help from that "one person that KNOWS regex". That feeling. I need to get that regex card game and play that vi adventures game. lol

edit2: I actually love vim it's a good tool