Looking for a note-taking app, preferably that I could use straight from a browser. I’m currently using Standard Notes. Not sure if that one is any good, but E2EE and open-source which at least checks those boxes. I don’t store anything too sensitive and I don’t need a whole bunch of features, though I suppose I’d use them if they were available.
I’m honestly not too picky but maybe discussion here could help someone else out who may be looking for the same thing with higher expectations? I’ll switch over to a better option if there’s something considerably better.
Thanks in advance
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Maybe https://dillinger.io/ as a self-hosted raspberrypi docker instance? And instead of saving to public cloud services just export the markdown file as local pdf.
On mobile I can’t just find pdf export button like on desktop.
Standard notes seemed fine for a non syncing app. I think it’s the syncing features everyone has issues with.
I haven’t had issues with the sync yet. I would’ve thought it would be the limited features of the free version that people didn’t like. Maybe I haven’t used it enough to deal with syncing issues yet?
Joplin is great an encrypts everything (if you want). You can host the synced notes yourself and you can install a web frontend if you’re into such a thing. I use it on mobile, windows and Linux where it works great
Simplenotes works in a browser, plus there is an app for mobile.
This video is pretty funny and gives some good ones
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I personally use Notesnook. It’s E2E, Open Soure and Cross Platform.
I enjoy notesnook. Free, Foss, e2ee, with cloud sync. Available on izzyondroid and fdroid.
I use Org Mode and Org Roam in Doom Emacs.
not e2ee but I use Nextcloud Notes
I use rhodia, usually with sailor, as for me it is most private
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SiYuan (GPL) is probably the most advanced. You can get it off github. I haven’t found anything that compares in terms of notes based features. Appflowy and Affine also are open source and have good note taking capabilities.
Notesnook for sure. I really disliked Joplin. Particularly the Android app. Just really poorly designed.
Acreom promise but it’s new enough they don’t have E2EE or even local only on mobile. Both are on the road map. Dev seems engaged and cool though.
Edit: I didn’t see the open source req, acreom isn’t. But it’s still a cool app. And I’d they can get local only on mobile, then you can sync however you want as it’s just flat Markdown, similar to Obsidian.
I think they are planning to open-source in their roadmap
Right you are! That’s great. It has the potential to be a real contender in this category once those features are in place.
I recently started to directly use KeePassDX even for notes (since I sync it with syncthing) and I must say it’s very good.
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I am searching for the note taking app with the same criteria and right now i am using Cryptee (browser based, no app) and trying to like Joplin. Sometimes Cryptee is slow at startup, but has web app, encrypted, is simple to use and has 2fa. Joplin is fast, supports cloud storage of your choice, but has awful sync issue. When you have some notes uploaded and synced and decide to reinstall the app in your phone and sync it again, your notes will be lost.