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FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source

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Re: FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source

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Post by coldtea »

FSNotes is amazing.

It's what I've settled on, not liking the lock-in (bad export options) of Notes.app, paying for increasingly crappier Evernote (I used in the past), cloud-sync-based note apps, very barebones FOSS apps, half-arsed stuff like Agenda, and Electron crap.

Re: FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source

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Post by blondin »

coldtea wrote: post #3

FSNotes is amazing. It's what I've settled on, not liking the lock-in (bad export options) of Notes.app, paying for increasingly crappier Evernote (I used in the past), cloud-sync-based note apps, very barebones FOSS apps, half-arsed stuff like Agenda, and Electron crap.

long time google keep user.

i am seriously considering migrating my hundreds of notes and recipes to notes.app because i have been having a bad feeling about keep.

you are saying the grass isn't greener on that side either? what's bad about notes.app besides lock-in and export?

Re: FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source

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Post by LVB »

I’ve tried a number of notes apps backed with “Sync with iCloud Drive” and often find it problematic. Usually the problems are on the Mac side, wherein my laptop does a bad job of pushing up small edits to existing files. I can force it with hacky things like viewing the folder in Finder, but that is a nuisance and easy to forget. The result is that I’ll open up Beorg/Obsidian/etc. on my iOS device and see a quite out-of-date version of the docs.

FWIW the non-drive iCloud Sync (core data?) works extremely well for things like Bear.

Re: FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source

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Post by ghostpepper »

Coincidentally I discovered another iOS app for note-taking this week called Beorg, which leverages the emacs + org mode format so I can easily sync between iOS and Linux.

This one looks nice too though; always good to see open source apps for Mac and iOS. I wonder how similar the markdown formats are.

Re: FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source

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Post by skinnymuch »

coldtea wrote: post #3

FSNotes is amazing. It's what I've settled on, not liking the lock-in (bad export options) of Notes.app, paying for increasingly crappier Evernote (I used in the past), cloud-sync-based note apps, very barebones FOSS apps, half-arsed stuff like Agenda, and Electron crap.

You didn’t bring up a lot of apps that are similar. Is it because open source is a requirement? Not sure because you bring up obviously non open source app issues.

For a quick look at quite a few apps would be all the Zettelkasten notes apps. Taio is recently out for iOS and Mac too.

I also don’t look at any of the options you listed. There’s still a handful of apps left over.

Re: FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source

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Post by skinnymuch »

blondin wrote: post #5
coldtea wrote: post #3

FSNotes is amazing. It's what I've settled on, not liking the lock-in (bad export options) of Notes.app, paying for increasingly crappier Evernote (I used in the past), cloud-sync-based note apps, very barebones FOSS apps, half-arsed stuff like Agenda, and Electron crap.

long time google keep user. i am seriously considering migrating my hundreds of notes and recipes to notes.app because i have been having a bad feeling about keep. you are saying the grass isn't greener on that side either? what's bad about notes.app besides lock-in and export?

If you enjoy using the Notes app, it should be fine.

I don’t like it because I find it clunky and restrictive. However I wouldn’t tell someone to not try it if it seems fine to them.

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