A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Notesnook seems to have a free tier that meets all the requirements to replace (eg.) Google Keep. I would love to support them when I have a more stable income
Standard Notes is also an option
And Obsidian in a veracrypt or Cryptomator vault works too.
Obsidian you can also host yourself. Own your data.
Why do you have to host Obsidian at all? I run it on my phone and the .md files sync to my server, then they sync to my laptop and I open them in Obsidian there.
That’s what I mean. You pick where you put your data. Or you can use obsidian’s cloud service. You aren’t locked into their cloud like with Evernote for example.
I love Obsidian. I just wish it was open source. I still use it though.
It’s a sufficiently okay compromise that everything is in markdown. Like I can view everything on notepad if obsidian suddenly vanished.
They get to make money only on how to organize the markdown data that is still human legible without them.
Exactly, that’s my thinking as well.
I believe Joplin or Logseq are the open source alternatives to Obsidian that most people recommend. I use Joplin
I use Joplin too for years, syncing however always felt quite slugish. And that besides the fact it does so over the network because I am using my self-hosted Nextcloud server as the syncing method. How has been your experience?
I use Syncthing, so more-or-less the same as your Nextcloud setup, and have no complaints about speed. In what way is syncing sluggish? That Joplin takes too long while reading your local filesystem? Like this should have taken less than ten seconds?
Yeah, I’ve looked into those before, I just prefer Obsidian. The community plugins are really nice to have.
I am pretty happy with Markor.
As someone who has used both Evernote and Standard Notes, I can say that the latter is obviously better for privacy but for those who are really looking for a FOSS option and want something more powerful than a simple notes store (albeit with a bit of a learning curve) you should definitely check out Logseq.
I use it daily. Using the free tier for now, one day I’ll buy a voucher from proxystore and upgrade.