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It's amazing that people can witness POTUS 44→45 and still make "well I have nothing to hide" arguments :/
It's amazing that people can witness POTUS 44→45 and still make "well I have nothing to hide" arguments :/ Unless you have a really short memory, I think you mean POTUS 39→45. And while by a lot of measures POTUS 45 has been a disaster, POTUS 44 did far more damage to privacy than 45 has (yet).
I searched far and wide for a good note taking app a few years ago, only to find that the best solution for me was right in front of me the entire time. git init fall2020 Git lets me keep track of everything, and I have free hosting at multiple different websites, or my own server if I want to. It's simple and customizable, and depending on what type of notes, I have different scripts to automate new notes and search…
Also in time I found I never really used any version control features. Backing up to a remote was the only thing I needed.
Small tools for searching and discovery. Another small tool for editing that uses another small tool to manage and lint any linking.
The use of hashtags in Bear is great, but it’s tied to its own filesystem.
Notable’s live editor is the best, with a great focus mode, but it’s tied to a single directory of notes where, in the case of macOS, titles with colons get mangled because the filesystem can’t cope with titles == filenames. It also stopped being open source without being bug free. I can’t fix bugs in it myself.
Atom has a lovely focus mode but no built in way of organising notes (left side columns) like Bear and Notable have.
And they all default to markdown instead of the functionally superior asciidoc. Markdown is fine up until you have material you wish to format with any kind of seriousness. Or to boil it down another way: Asciidoc has table width hints and markdown don’t.
I do love, at least, the level of choice we have these days.
Funnily enough, I don’t think there is a really good one. There’s lots that almost do it but not quite. - Evernote: no note linking - Bear: lovely but no web or android version - OneNote: appalling in the way only MS can be - SimpleNotes: too simple - Zoho: too ...urgh - Keep: too Googley - Apple notes: too Appley - Standard Notes: too buggy I’m clearly a fussy sod. But really, just a nice, oss, local files, ability…
Would you mind elaborating on why Standard Notes is too buggy? Only thing that comes to mind is the use of React Native and Electron (suboptimal performance / UX) but I've never had any issues myself. I'd like to hear of alternatives that apply the same e2e encryption model.
Funnily enough, I don’t think there is a really good one. There’s lots that almost do it but not quite. - Evernote: no note linking - Bear: lovely but no web or android version - OneNote: appalling in the way only MS can be - SimpleNotes: too simple - Zoho: too ...urgh - Keep: too Googley - Apple notes: too Appley - Standard Notes: too buggy I’m clearly a fussy sod. But really, just a nice, oss, local files, ability…
> Evernote: no note linking What about this: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313588-How-to...
Funnily enough, I don’t think there is a really good one. There’s lots that almost do it but not quite. - Evernote: no note linking - Bear: lovely but no web or android version - OneNote: appalling in the way only MS can be - SimpleNotes: too simple - Zoho: too ...urgh - Keep: too Googley - Apple notes: too Appley - Standard Notes: too buggy I’m clearly a fussy sod. But really, just a nice, oss, local files, ability…
Have you tried [Joplin]( https://joplinapp.org/ )? It's FOSS, works on local files, has encryption and supports note linking. It also has apps for several platforms.
Funnily enough, I don’t think there is a really good one. There’s lots that almost do it but not quite. - Evernote: no note linking - Bear: lovely but no web or android version - OneNote: appalling in the way only MS can be - SimpleNotes: too simple - Zoho: too ...urgh - Keep: too Googley - Apple notes: too Appley - Standard Notes: too buggy I’m clearly a fussy sod. But really, just a nice, oss, local files, ability…
at the risk of doing some self promotion, I've had the same problem and ended up creating my own tool. https://dendron.so , is a new note taking tool (launched a week ago) that lets you take local-first markdown notes and supports links like roam. it's open source and built on top of vscode.
I’ve tried many, many different apps, and approaches over the years. On of my peeves is doing things twice, so here are, to my mind, the important decision making factors: 1. cross-device/platform support. Once I was entirely Apple, I settled on Drafts (post processing when necessary), and Apple Notes. If you have multiple OS’s involved, the decision is harder (Evernote). The logic is that I wanted some contextually…
I've spent roughly a decade or so on each platform I've been on, and then moved on, because either the platform lost its way, or I needed different things. I've learned the painful way that you want data liberation.
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I absolutely love notepad++; for many reaosns including but not limited to: beinglightweight, fast, quite featureful even before resorting to the many plugins, etc. The only downside is it is for windows only. For my dayjob i'm forced to use windows, so can enjoy notepad++ for everything (from dev. to basic notetaking, to journaling)...but all my personal machines run linx OS...so no notepad++. I love the choice of n…
VSCode can support most any plaintext workflow, as long as you're ok with the electron overhead.
p.s. - Because of some comments here, I'm actually trying Geany (seems lightweight, cross-platform, etc.)...we'll see if it can replace notepad++ for me.