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What is your favourite FOSS notes application? (midwest.social)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Preferably an application that you can sync and save. Not sure what alternatives are safe in terms of privacy and security.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I’m a huge fan of Joplin. It runs on everything and syncs to either your or their cloud. Been using it for a few years now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

2nd for Joplin. Love it to bits. It has its quirks, but they're ones I can live with. The sync support is pretty awesome.

Been playing with Logseq recently as well. Logseq is more for knowledge management/brain dump kind of notetaking, but it's really cool that it's so flexible. It helps that I really like using lists in the first place

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Does Joplin have a search function within notes? And it is fully FOSS, yes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'm not sure what EXACTLY you'd be looking for from a search feature as I'm mostly a light user myself, but there's a search option which will search the contents of all your notes. I can't tell you how robust it is, but it does have exclusion (desiredTerm -excludeTerm) search at least, and there's standard Find/Replace functionality once you're in the specific note.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Joplin itself is AGPL. Unfortunately, Joplin Server is under "JOPLIN SERVER PERSONAL USE LICENSE".

While I really like Joplin, I'm thinking of making the switch to something fully open source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You don't need the server. It happily works with storing notes as files and syncing them with syncthing.

Joplin server is a separate product that is for if you want to run a web server to sync and collaborate on notes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

not sure I follow your comment. Joplin Server would be relevant when you sync your notes through them, no? Or how does it affect the app?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I used to work at video game company and Joplin was the code name for one of our projects, so now every time I see that word, I instantly think of that game. I think it was dragon age lol. Anyway, if I can get past that PTSD I might check out this editor! lol /s