I’ve gone handwritten, obsidian, onenote, and now Trilium. Considering switching to something else because there is no offline mobile support.
I use memos and trilium together but since neither offers mobile offline support considering switching both. No reason to run two services when I could run one.
Considering:
- Joplin
- Logseq
- SiYuan
- ?
I cannot recommend Silver Bullet enough
This was the missing piece of the puzzle I needed to actually get organized and write things down. The graph based linking system allows me to link ideas together without any sort of hierarchy, which I adore.
I mostly use this to DM my groups Pathfinder campaign, but also use it for general note taking as well.
I use Joplin with their selfhosted beta server. I’m pretty happy with it except for the search which is absurdly bad (ctrl-p searchterm to show all notebooks containing the term,selectt one, then search the notebook with ctrl-f. If this isn’t what you were looking for go to ctrl-p again. Search the next notenbook. And ctrl-p again. 🤢)
I have to admit I prefer Obsidian, even though it’s not self hosted.
But all of my data is local. Even if I use Obsidian Sync and Obsidian goes under, I still have all my files on different machines (on top of regular backups) and I can use some other Markdown editor.
Notesnook and standard notes for sync. Txt file if i dont need.it to sync
Obsidian, any day, all day.
- Desktop client on macOS computer and laptop
- Desktop client on Fedora Linux laptop
- Android app on phone
- Everything synced with Dropbox
- Dropsync to sync Dropbox to phone
- Local and cloud backup (Backblaze B2 + Google Drive) his my NAS
I love it so much that I live in near constant fear for them to somehow enshittify it 😔
Does not have offline support tho … https://github.com/outline/outline
Vim to edit markdown files. I use syncthing to sync between phone and other devices. I edit using markor on android.
I’ve tried other software, but usually discover that vim keybinds dont exist (even as a plugin) or opening as plain old markdown isnt available, so I give up and try the next one. I’ve finally accepted that for me, vim and markdown is my endgame note taking solution.
It sounds like you’ve found something that works for you, but if you’re interested in trying other things obsidian stores and renders in plain markdown, and also has a vim mode
Markdown files in either git or Nextcloud. Mostly VS Codium for editing them but also Kate, Vim, or whatever else is available on the machine I’m using.
I second markdown with Nextcloud notes and I’ll add Markor as Android markdown editor. I use the Nextcloud Android client to sync my notes folder. On desktop I use any text editor that has markdown syntax highlighting and/or Nextcloud Notes app on the web.
Anytype is local/offline first, P2P, end to end encrypted, open source, and has a great mobile app. They provide a (storage limited) cloud backup peer for free. You can either self host that yourself, or just rely on P2P syncing with your other devices. I’ve been using it for years and really like it.
TBH I’m still using Onenote, I haven’t found a good replacement for it.
Do you use hand written notes?
I eventually want to get an android writing tablet and while searching for an app, I keep coming back to onenote.
Yeah sometimes, mostly I just like having a page where I can place things wherever I want, like tables, CSV files, PDFs, images, etc.
I’ve been using Joplin for years. I self host Joplin server for sync as well. Join does support offline use. Each device has a local copy of the notes and if you’re offline you can use the app to access and edit existing notes as well as creating new ones. When you regain a connection the sync will automatically update the notes and those updates will proliferate to any other devices with Joplin
I looked at Joplin before switching to Obsidian from OneNote. It has a mobile app but I don’t know if it does local storage or not.
