I am currently using Trilium for my notes. But I am constantly annoyed by the mobile experience. What I want:
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sync across devices from a central server (this is why I went with Trilium, as having a web client means there’s always the same notes everywhere)
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native Android app with local storage so that I don’t have to log in just for looking up a single note (this is what annoys me most about Trilium, plus the UX on mobile)
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web version (for use on PC)
I only need very basic markup, markdown support is enough. I don’t worry about security, as I run everything inside my own VPN.
Is there something like this out there? I always see people raving about Obsidian, but sync seems to really suck there. Using some folder sync is a no go for me.
Obsidian with Syncthing running on both your Android and your server for syncing your notes.
That solution doesn’t exactly spark joy. Folder sync in general is, in my experience, too error prone. So I just stay away from it. Maybe I’ll need to finally give it another try.
Obsidian livesync works really well. Notes are live synced between my desktop and Android device
Well, OK, you got me to give that a try!
Well, that sounds good. But my god is that a complicated mess. It’s not working for me and I don’t have the will to deal with that crap anymore. Set up my own CouchDB, ran the init script, connection test is fine. But I can’t get the plugin to actually sync anything, it just keeps failing with “Failed to initialise the encryption key, preventing replication”. Whatever that means. It won’t explain which encryption key or what failed. I did not enable E2E encryption.
Maybe run through the installation again, and run via Docker if you aren’t already. It was plug-and-play when I set it up
Alternatively, obsidian offers a 1st party paid sync feature
Joplin will do this for you. It comes ready to sync with all sorts of cloud options, as well as “local folder” which works well with Syncthing. It’s offline-first, cross-platform, and FOSS.
Plus the FF extension is really full-featured. I can clip in different formats or even take a screenshot if the webpage makes clipping hard.
Plus the FF extension is really full-featured. I can clip in different formats or even take a screenshot if the webpage makes clipping hard.
I didn’t even know there was a Firefox extension! I might give it a look.
Can confirm. This app is great! I particularly like that it works across all OSs.
This along with a home VPN and you can hit it from anywhere.
Can recommend, works offline and online with PWA support and stores everything in Markdown files for easy migration if you want to change your frontend.
How are you doing offline PWA?
It just works™?
Silverbullet supports working offline as a pwa, just click install on the website and you get a shortcut to the web app that you can use online and offline, open it when your online again to sync your changes to the other devices.
I’m running iOS and Tailscale to access it. Doesn’t work offline for me. How does that compare with your setup?
I run wireguard and Android with chrome cause firefox doesn’t support pwa. Did you add it to your home screen?
Edit: Also I run release V2
Ok might be an iOS thing compared with android. I’ve tested with safari and Firefox. And yes added PWA of the website to the Home Screen
Org-mode and git push works for me.
I’m not mentally ill enough for that. 😛
Look at Notesnook. You can even self-host the server, though it’s somewhat more complicated than it needs to be.
I have Joplin with Nextcloud sync. It works fine for me! It’s got a desktop app and a mobile app with, in my opinion, pretty good UI. Markdown support, syncing between devices, etc. are all there. You don’t need to connect to the network to view notes, a local copy is saved.
Quillpad forever ❤️
Man, I like Quillpad but I can’t use the sync. If I enable that, I have to go to NC to delete notes, if I delete them locally they just come back. I guess that’s fine, I only use it for temporary notes anyway, stuff I want to save and organize goes into Joplin.
It happens to me the same, but since last update in.able to sync :p
I am using SiYuan and I use the web app as a short cut, so that I can easily create notes on my phone.
I have joplin but personally found myself using Nextcloud Notes 100% of the time. I just need very basic, quick markdown notes
Ticks all your boxes
Joplin for sure. But I personally use Obsidian because of the UI. I sync it with my server using Syncthing. All devices are synced to the server and not with each other so I have one source of Truth.
Take a look at Affine. I am using Joplin currently, however I am leaning more and more towards Affine due to OIDC support
