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@lemmy.ml
    6•9 months 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.

  • @paradox2011@lemmy.ml
    5•9 months 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.

  • m-p{3}
    4•9 months ago

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

    • youmaynotknow
      1•9 months 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.

  • @readbeanicecream@lemm.eeEnglish
    3•9 months ago

    Standard Notes is okay. Just know if you want anything besides plain text (markdown/image support) you have to upgrade to a paid plan.

  • @31337@sh.itjust.works
    2•9 months 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.

    • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
      1•9 months 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

  • t�mEnglish
    1•9 months ago

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

    • m-p{3}
      6•9 months ago

      Personally I like Joplin (I even sponsor it on GitHub) but I’m left feeling as if the UI is unpolished and the navigation on the mobile app (Android) feels janky (ie: sliding from left to right doesn’t always show the sidebar when I want it, etc.)

      It is very close to what I exactly want in a note-taking app though.

      • @Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml
        4•9 months ago

        Have to agree with this. I’d love to use it and support what they’re doing. But the mobile client is bad. I also hate that the note files, stored in markdown format, are modified. The file names are not human readable and the contents are appended with metadata.

        • m-p{3}
          2•9 months ago

          One of my gripe as well, I wish the filenames were human-readable too on the local device, and of course with the filename encrypted along with the content on the sync target.