Yes, I know that the are dozens of notes apps. I’m looking for recommendations based on a few features that I like:

  • nice design (including color coding)
  • easy checklists
  • sharing - this one is key. I use a shared shopping list and we both need to add and edit.
  • pinning and archiving (hidden notes)

I don’t mind running it from my homelab server, but that is not a requirement. Does anyone use a notes app that you love? Let me know!

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Wait, you use Tasks as Notes? I use this app for tasks and the Nextcloud Notes app for notes. Do you just make a task with no due date?

    • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 days ago
      • sharing - this one is key. I use a shared shopping list and we both need to add and edit.

      i use and love notally but you can’t share/sync (export/import wouldn’t satisfy the above requirement)

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      10 days ago

      I also found a fork called NotallyX, which includes import functions from Keep and Evernote. Pretty useful for someone migrating.

      • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 days ago
        • amount of backups to keep

        also is a nice addition but i like the fact that notally is just 1.9mb. So i keep using notally and delete a dozen backups from time to time :/

        • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          10 days ago

          yeah, just looking through the notes, it looks like both devs care a lot about their project and just have different visions for what a “Complete” notes app should look like. It’s nice to see, because sometimes when you see a fork of a project it’s because someone abandoned it or there is some kind of community drama, but that doesn’t seem to be the case afaik.

    • Statick@programming.devEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I was using Joplin for a while… Self hosted their server. On two occasions it screwed up on me and wouldn’t load my folders… Luckily I had backups but it was still frustrating. I don’t recommend them purely because the notes are stored in a custom format instead of just plain text files.

      My favorite way of doing notes now is with git, currently using a free private repo on gitlab.

      Just clone the repo on whatever PC I need them and it has backups and version control.

      Then use GitJournal on my phone.

      It’s perfect for me. I love it.

      • stphven@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 days ago

        I had similar experiences with Joplin. Would randomly lose quite a lot of data, and exporting to other formats was a hassle. I also cannot recommend.

      • baconman1945@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 days ago

        Nice, I’ve been doing something similar, using the obsidian-git plug-in for Obsidian and the Working Copy app on iOS.

        Obsidian is my front-end, and it saves the notes in markdown files in a git-synced folder on my computer.

        The plug-in pushes and pulls automatically, and Working Copy does the same thing on iOS, just before opening the Obsidian app on iOS.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Wow, this looks amazing. I’ll have to check it out to see how sharing/collaboration works though.

        • Jinna@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          9 days ago

          Critically you can’t share to specific accounts, it’s private, completely public or all registered users. Also, sharing is read-only, no collaboration allowed. So sharing sort of yes, but no collaboration say on a shopping list.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    “I WANT ALL THE CLOUD THINGS RIGHT NOW FOR FREE AND I REFUSE TO COMPROMISE 🦶🦶🦶🦶”

    That’s what these requests read like.

    Look, these people have a product with a good UI and sharing for a reason. Anything else you find that doesn’t hit that mark is because of that. Make concessions for what you really need, build your own, or continue stomping around about it.

    • MudMan@fedia.io
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      10 days ago

      Or, you know, they could keep using Google Keep.

      There’s a corner of the FOSS community that is all like “you should jump ship on literally any software that is not clean and pure of corporate interests” but also “can’t blame FOSS software for not being good unless you’re in the process of making your own”. It’s… kinda confusing.

    • masterofn001@lemmy.caEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Yell louder while providing nothing useful to say.

      Things exist. Things you may not know about.

      Questions exist.

      They are used to ask questions.

      There’s only one person stomping around in this post. It isn’t OP.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I pay for all of the software that I use, and encourage others to do so as well. That’s not what this is at all. Pretty much the opposite effect.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        11 days ago

        I paid for Evernote for years, got a double helping of enshitification.

        I pay for Google Workspace. They will Play eventually sunset keep even though I pay for their services because that’s just what they do.

        If you don’t host it yourself, they can and will take it away from you.

        • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          11 days ago

          Yep. You can pay with your data, you can pay a corporation, or you can pay open source developers directly.

          If someone can’t afford to pay, or doesn’t believe in it, that’s fine, and that’s part of what open source is, which is amazing. But if you’re in a position to support foss developers, and they created something useful for you, I think it’s the least we can do.

        • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          11 days ago

          Yes, it is?

          Your rant doesn’t make sense. Asking for suggestions because you’re not OK with being spied on (especially when you’re perfectly willing to absorb the hosting costs yourself or pat for a service that isn’t hostile) is perfectly valid behavior.

  • paradox2011@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 days ago

    You might like Blinko. It seems similar to Keep to me. I set it up for awhile, but it didn’t give me anything beyond what I already have with Joplin, so couldn’t justify keeping it or transitioning to it. Here’s a video from DB Tech on the set up process: Self-host Blinko with docker

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Wow, this has some neat features and it looks great on any size screen. I will be following this for sure

      • paradox2011@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        10 days ago

        Development is pretty rapid too. I didn’t track the features on the updates, but new versions were getting pushed regularly. No mobile app which was kind of a bummer, but the progressive web app integration was pretty good. It felt like a mobile app.

        Edit: I forgot to mention the note sharing function, it shares a URL of the note that allows the recipient to view and edit the note through the URL. It was a little janky when compared with sharing a note between two users using themselves app, but it still worked pretty decently.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Joplin + Syncthing has been great for me. Sync across multiple devices with no third party in between. However the “sharing” in this context is limited to other installations of the entire db. To my knowledge, there’s no way to say “sync these notes with my wife, and these others with my phone only” etc.

    • Ohh@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Last i looked into it, joplin had a bug which ment syncthing didnt work . Can’t remember the details but the solution was pinning an old version.

      I am much much happier with markor notes + syncthing.

      Super sinple, 100 % foss, sync what you want .