Notesnook is down - potential FOSS alternatives?

2 years ago by Wild Bill to c/opensource

Notesnook has been down for about a day, consistent crashes despite deleting it and reinstalling. I don't seem to be the only one as evidenced by the users voicing this concern on their Github page.

So, while imagining Notesnook will never get back up, what would be some alternatives to it? I've tried out Joplin, Quillpad, and Notally in the past, but none really stuck with me. I don't use Nextcloud either. From what I've heard, many seem happy with Standard Notes and Markor. Anything y'all can vouch for?

Looking for an alternative that gets as close to Notesnook as possible, without a subscription model.

communism 7 points 2 years ago

Notesnook is working on making their sync server self-hostable so you might just want to self-host once that's available. Otherwise if it's just down short-term just a text editor and markdown? You can import markdown files to Notesnook once it's back up for you.

Notesnook has been working fine for me, not sure why some users are having issues and some not.

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Hiko0 2 points 2 years ago

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communism 2 points 2 years ago

Well it's now a reality: https://monogr.ph/66add1680f119badfa65686f/

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Hiko0 2 points 2 years ago

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paradox2011 6 points 2 years ago

If it's only been a day, I might wait a bit longer before writing it off. The issue could very well be resolved soon. Even the big tech companies have a service go through problems for a day or two.

I only tested Notesnook for a few days, so I may not remember it's key elements well, but Standard Notes seemed like a very similar product (the downside is the subscription, it was basically unusable to me without paying).

The NotesNook UI is the best I've seen, it's hard to find that level of polish in a FOSS android app.

I think you'll struggle to find what you're looking for without a subscription model unfortunately. If you do want to retry Joplin that is my recommendation, I run it with a locally hosted Joplin sync server, it's fantastic for my use case. It's been recieving a lot of solid updates lately too.

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Sunny 6 points 2 years ago

Just found this the other day; not sure it suits your needs but its really neat! https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

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Telorand 2 points 2 years ago

That looks super cool! What a neat find.

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shiftymccool 4 points 2 years ago

You mention Quillpad, so I assume this is for Android. If so, I went through a similar search after dropping NextCloud. I ended up with GitJournal. The app is nice and has all the features I need. I have it backed with self-hosted Forgejo. If I need to make a note on a desk/laptop, I can clone the repo and use whatever text editor I like since it's all just markdown. I even have vs code server set up for quick notes on the web

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fruitycoder 2 points 2 years ago

Sweet I've been looking for a notes app with git integration!

Couldn't find it on fdroid unfortunately, so I have some digging to do I think.

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shiftymccool 3 points 2 years ago

I found it using the search in Neo Store, but you should be able to add this repo to F-Droid: https://gitjournal.io/fdroid/repo

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fruitycoder 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks!

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Petter1 1 point 2 years ago

😮4$ on iPhone VS free on Android +35$ to unlock tags and backlink

Would have loved testing it, if there was a way for free trial 🤷🏻‍♀️ but I will not buy the cat in the bag…

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shiftymccool 1 point 2 years ago

You only need to pay for pro features, which I haven't had the need for

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Petter1 1 point 2 years ago

You are on android, I guess

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shiftymccool 1 point 2 years ago

Yep

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mp3 3 points 2 years ago

Closest I could find without a subscription with E2EE is Joplin, which you tried..

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jjlinux 1 point 2 years ago

I self host Joplin, and have yet to find anything that comes even close for the cost and how easy it is to deploy and use.

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tengkuizdihar 3 points 2 years ago

as if on queue, I just released a new version of my own note taking app https://p.programming.dev/...

Its local so it's as good as your HDD/SDD, its encrypted so no one can know the content beside yourself, and you can sync it however you want (its 1 file only).

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clark 2 points 2 years ago

That looks really good! Can you specify what you mean by 1 file only? And do you think this will be available on Android? Great job on the project, would love to support it!

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tengkuizdihar 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you! By 1 file means the entire document (filled with your notes) is contained within 1 file. It's a .note file, custom-made, but based on sqlite file format. Currently I have no need to monetize the app (I want to keep it libre and free for this one), but you can contribute by filing bugs and fixing issues on the page https://codeberg.org/solver-orgz/treedome/issues

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tengkuizdihar 2 points 2 years ago

also there's no plan to put this in android, yet. I still can't imagine how it would end up.

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acid_falcon 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe you could sync the file with Syncthing or Nextcloud. And sqlite is the default android db type... I'm tempted to give it a shot, I just started looking for a solid self hosted note taking thing

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tengkuizdihar 2 points 2 years ago

Currently, using syncthing and occasionally pushing it to something like gdrive/mega/Dropbox is what I do

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hasecilu 3 points 2 years ago

You may want to test Trilium Next, you can self host it and it has a lot of features. Used Logseq before but got tired of syncing on all devices.

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readbeanicecream 3 points 2 years ago

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ace_garp 2 points 2 years ago

I moved from Standard Notes to neutriNote, 6 months ago.

Recommend to give both a look.

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kveld9 2 points 2 years ago

@clark wdym with "Notesnook is down"? I've been using that without any problem

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clark 1 point 2 years ago

Been crashing the past day for several users.

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kveld9 -2 points 2 years ago

@clark and reinstalling the app?

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clark 3 points 2 years ago

Doesn't work as per the post.

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31337 2 points 2 years ago

I've been trying out Logseq the past couple days, which I guess is an alternative to Obsidian (never tried that). Can't say I really understand the point or appropriate workflow of notes in a "graph" structure rather than a tree structure though (or the purpose of a journal). I like Joplin, but I've been having trouble with syncing on Android.

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Hadriscus 2 points 2 years ago

I tried LogSeq but found it clumsy to navigate. I am going to take a look at TriliumNext. Right now am using QOwnNotes which is simpler but I'm all for that. The issue to me is, it isn't wysiwyg. There's an editor panel AND a vizualisation panel, and that seems a bit redundant to me. Otherwise it's fantastic

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beeng 1 point 2 years ago

Graph can be flat and enriched with tags to allow for good searching \ filtering

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sdiowN 1 point 2 years ago

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finickydesert 1 point 2 years ago

Would a note being written in Markdown then git into a private repo work? (Not necessarily GitHub) ?

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JackGreenEarth 1 point 2 years ago

Easy Notes on F-Droid looks very nice, from a cursory look

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aaaaace 1 point 2 years ago

I just started playing with this yesterday, no opinion yet...

https://tiddlywiki.com/

The Android app Tiddloid Lite does work and can save to an SD card.

Also like Markor and use it.

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