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Recommendations for a FOSS Cross-Platform Note-Taking Application (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Up to now I've been using Simplenote, which has a Linux client (but also Android & iOS) & supports live collaboration on notes. However, Simplenote hasn't had a meaningful update for a long time, & it's recently been behaving strangely, e.g. notes undeleting themselves, line duplications & undeletions.

Can anyone recommend an alternative? Spinning up an ownCloud/nextcloud instance just to use Joplin feels a little overkill. I stumbled across turtl, but the project looks abandoned.

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[–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I just sync a directory called "Notes" everywhere and use whatever text editor is most comfortable on any given platform to edit Markdown documents. Helix on desktop, Markor (or, increasingly, Simple Text Editor) on Android. For checklists, same thing except I use todo.txt for the file format, and the todo script on the desktop and Simpletask on Android.

I have been looking for a self-hosted, concurrent collaborative web editor, as asking my wife to write Markdown is a bit much, and the syncing becomes more complex, but I haven't settled on something.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Hedgedoc is a competent selfhostable alternative. V2.0 is around the corner.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Thanks, Hedgedoc looks like a neat project. It's focused on Markdown, which is nice, and the preview is handy. The editor requires some knowledge of Markdown, and willingness to use it in some instances, which means it won't be the best option for my wife. While she's certainly capable of learning markdown, she has no willingness - it's one of those areas where she just can't be arsed to fuss with it. Embedding images, for example, and even seeing the markup while she's editing is distracting for her.

    Anyway, I need to find some WYSIWIG editor. If it saves and loads markdown, all the better, but it's more important that the editor lool Word-ish, which is what she has to use at work.

    Thanks for the pointer, though!

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