I've used Joplin for years. IDK why people have a hate on for it, it's fine.
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If you're considering (something) + Syncthing, try Orgmode. It looks like Markdown but has a lot of features for note management and navigation.
Oh I'm ashamed of this one, but notability on a second hand iPad for handwritten and otherwise notion. I'm sorry but nothing has its polish, goodnotes just isn't good enough and doesn't have enough setting to make it good either. I refuse to use one note. In regards to notion it's the sharing and collaboration features that are killer.
Remnote, sadly i believe there are substantially better places for sync capable noting but theyre all either paid or use third party bs like gdrive. Need joplin and proton drive to work something out!
I've been happy with joplin, I leave it on my nextcloud
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I use Logseq in my PC and my phone and I unse Syncthing to sync the notes accross my devices.
Flat notes. I’ve tried a bunch of different more complex apps but I keep coming back to flat notes.
As in a folder of text files? Because that's what I'm doing. Syncing across devices with Syncthing and editing/adding files with whatever markdown editor works best in each platform.
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org-roam but logseq is good too.
I use Joplin for day-to-day: to-dos, journals etc. I like Joplin, but I haven't tried the others. I tend to be sticky with services, if something "works" I don't go looking for better. Only when I have a specific problem I can't solve do I branch out.
I use bookstack for documentation on the server, faqs guides, updates etc. perhaps that works for others. The lack of android app is what moved me to Joplin.
I've used Logseq for 2-3 years but it's slow and a pain to use on mobile. I discovered Tiddlywiki in December, I love how customizable it is, but it's been taking me a while to tweak it to match my usual workflow. Running it via nodejs server on android (termux) and laptops (so I'm accessing it on localhost on all devices) and syncing the wikis between devices using Syncthing.
I've used a bunch, but I eventually moved to SilverBullet and will probably stick with it.
Mobile offline sync is a lost cause. The dev environment, even on Android, is so hostile you'll never get a good experience.
Joplin comes close, but it's still extremely unreliable and I've had many dropped notes. It also takes hours to sync a large corpus.
I wrote my own web app using Axum and flask that I use. Check out dokuwiki as well.
@ocean maybe @notesnook is something for you.
It's even E2E encrypted in case somebody got access to your server or so.
https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook-sync-server?tab=readme-ov-file#notesnook-sync-server
Orgzly + Syncthing
Obsidian and it syncs to my home server