Hi.

I’m curently using Nextcloud notes for its convenience. I use the app on my phone, and the webui on my pc.

I’m willing to ditch Nextcloud as a whole, so I want to replace my note taking habits.

I’ve tried Trilium, which lacks an Android app, and I feel the WPA makes the UI unpractical and hard to read.

I’ve tried Joplin, but it lacks a webui.

Are there other alternatives I’ve missed out ?

Solution: I ended up finding Flatnotes. It’s dead simple to run and to use, has markdown and WYSIWYG, and the WPA is flawless.

Thanks for going back and updating with your solution - I’m gonna check that out.

@techgearwhips@lemmy.world
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Joplin via Dropbox (free account) is effortless and painless. I used to sync it via nextcloud and it always gave me issues. It has an iOS, Android, and Desktop app so why do you need Web Ui?

Logseq can be launched as a desktop app and in a web browser and has both iOS and Android apps. Official sync is a paid feature but there are other options (e.g. Syncthing).

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I want to avoid syncthing for my notes as I’ve read some people experience issues with duplicates and conflicts between versions.

That’s what I use.
Logseq with Syncthing for interoperability between my PC & smartphone.

How does syncthing compair to git. Im using git currently but sycing to mobile has a tendancy to break

No problems at all.
I setup a 3-way folder sync between 3 nodes:

  1. Desktop (Linux)
  2. Android
  3. VPS

VPS is always on, so even if my smartphone is not connected to the internet when I log off of my desktop, the smartphone automatically fetches the updated folder from the VPS .

I haven’t used git for this purpose but I’d think the process would be tedious. Manual commit, push, fetch …

Also, I tried to set it up with Nextcloud but I couldn’t get Android Logseq to use the Nextcloud folder for some reason. I don’t remember the exact issue.

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I might have to try syncthing then im sure i can use git for versioning my notes from just one node and retain that feature. I use logseq so on desktop git syncing is automatic.

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Anytype - An open-source Notion alternative.

org-mode/org-roam in Emacs, on Orgzly mobile, synchronization via git.

I started on a similar journey (escaping from Evernote rather than Nextcloud), and ended up on Silverbullet run at home and accessed over Tailscale. It is a bit of a different approach and has a small upfront learning time. I love having all my notes as reasonably plain markdown, so if I ever want to change my solution, my data’s in an easily movable format - for example changing to Obsidian would not involve any import/export.

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The WebApp for trillium works great compared to the desktop app. You won’t tell a difference

Memos might do the trick for you. There is a 3rd party android native app, but I found the PWA to be quite good. Markdown is stored in a single sqlite db file though, if that bugs you.

Tiritibambix
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I use memos already, but for another purpose. This app is great :)

Obsidian

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Came here to say the same thing.

At the end of the day you simply can not beat unreasonable effectiveness of plaintext.

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While there seems to be a selhosted version, I can’t log to it with the proprietary android app.

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