In the past I’d recommended Trilium Notes as a good FLOSS alternative to Obsidian for a note taking database app, but unfortunately today after failing to restore a trilium backup file to a new install, and finding that the documentation on backups isn’t accurate (as in, there are not buttons in the app that the documentation claims are there, and nothing I have tried has worked to restore the backup), I discovered on the github a Claude.md in the repository, and the commit history shows that in the past few months Claude has become one of the most prolific contributors on the project.
If anyone is using this app based on my previous recommendation, I’d personally suggest migrating to a different note-taking app that isn’t vibe-coded (and exports backups to plain text, instead of some database format), perhaps CherryTree?
Yeah I’ve been using this for a while and it’s noticeably gone to shit recently. This would certainly explain it. Time to find an alternative
I’ve been a Joplin user for years, looked at Trilium once or twice, but the complexity and (iirc) database-backed storage kinda kept me away. The latter also always slightly irked me about Joplin, but at least you can export the whole notebook to markdown.
Which I did, when Joplin declared slop contributions OK (and a bunch of plugins were also on the slop teat, and you kind of need plugins). Then I started up SilverBullet and I haven’t looked back.
In terms of “I want an alternative for Obsidian” I think it might actually come closest.
Well, shit. I only recently started using Trilium. If it were only some Claude commits, I would probably ignore it. But with your documented bad/issue experience, I guess I’ll seek alternatives.
Why not just use folder structure and markdown in textbundle files?
I’ve really been enjoying https://helixnotes.com/ Kinda like Obsidian but looks nicer and its simpler and easier to use, IMO.
I think @rockyroad226@lemmy.world is the dev?
Gave it a try and I have to say I like it quite a bit, and I like that it exports everything in markdown files for backups.
Looks nice and seems to have reminders and a calendar built in.
Do you know if it has a sliding panes mode?
I do not
Well that’s a shame. The developer considered it (approximately) feature complete and handed it off to a collection of devs for maintenance and this what they did with it?
the upside is it should be reasonably easy to fork it from before the slop and maintain it independently from there
I picked Logseq as the markdown note app when I started. It’s Foss, and I’ve been quite happy with it.
How does the community feel about Joplin? I tried out Logseq a few times, but always went back to Joplin for whatever reason.
AFAIK, the Joplin lead dev is using slop machines as well, or anyway endorses it. It’s what drove me away.
Unfortunately Logseq also has a claude section in their github, so they are using LLM’s too, though I do not know to what extent (the cloude bot has few direct commits, but the devs could be using it for their own pull requests).
Recently made that switch myself. I have to say I do miss a lot of features from Obsidian, but I do appreciate the effort that goes into logseq and think it will continue to improve.
I just started using Zettlr and like it so far.
I wanted to like Trillium, and was even willing to forgoe the database style back-end… But it can’t even handle markdown style notes and previews as graciously as Obsidian.
