Nice Tool. But why is it not possible to edit markdown files in arbitrary folders? why do I have to have a separate folder for notes and another one for all other documents?
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
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
what I like about the notes app is that it can use imap to store notes. So they’re in-sync without iCloud and accessible from any imap client. The app itself is a bit annoying though with forced auto-spelling and a clunky feeling. Would love to find another app that relies on imap, but haven’t found any (admit to not looking too much)
What do you mean by IMAP? Isn’t it a mail sync thing? Or can you use it some other way?
Apple’s visual voicemail on the iPhone also syncs using IMAP hosted by your carrier.
Re: FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
what I like about the notes app is that it can use imap to store notes. So they’re in-sync without iCloud and accessible from any imap client. The app itself is a bit annoying though with forced auto-spelling and a clunky feeling. Would love to find another app that relies on imap, but haven’t found any (admit to not looking too much)
What do you mean by IMAP? Isn’t it a mail sync thing? Or can you use it some other way?
IMAP is basically a file access protocol (think FTP), but the "files" are emails. You don't have to just pull from an INBOX and save emails in Sent (that's done over IMAP, not SMTP), you can read/create/modify anything anywhere, so some apps save notes to IMAP for some reason (to replace "self-emails" I guess).
Re: FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
what I like about the notes app is that it can use imap to store notes. So they’re in-sync without iCloud and accessible from any imap client. The app itself is a bit annoying though with forced auto-spelling and a clunky feeling. Would love to find another app that relies on imap, but haven’t found any (admit to not looking too much)
What do you mean by forced auto-spelling? You can turn that on and off in the Edit menu just like in any other macos text field.
hehe I guess I missed it? Thank you. never spent long enough on the app to tweak the settings, even though I think I tried to look up the preferences and couldn’t find it there
Re: FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source
#45I've jumped between note-taking Apps, Evernote, Bear, Typora, Notion, Obsidian, ..., you name it. Finally settled down with Obsidian as I can manage note files directly such as using Syncthing for backing up and syncing. This one does seem interesting and possible to integrate into my workflow, gotta give it a try.
How do you handle sync to mobile with Syncthing? Obs mobile only supports iCloud and their own sync service.
Re: FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Obsidian really is a great choice if you are looking for Markdown. Windows, Linux, Mac, Android/iOS mobile apps soon. It's polished, fast, and all around a great experience. Flexible inter-note linking (wiki style), visualization, backlink discovery, handles images and embedded documents well. All around a good product. I'm still looking for something with a cross-platform GUI that I like as much as I liked Obsidian.…
> Windows, Linux, Mac, Android/iOS mobile apps soon. I think they are actually available now. > arbitrarily nested hierarchy What do you mean arbitrarily nested hierarchy?
Emacs org-mode, the org format, and the general ecosystem (agenda view, org-roam, and lots of other things) don't really care how you structure your data, so you can choose between:
* a bunch of very focused small files
* a single large file
* some combination of the two
* Partner Integration
**
*** APIs
**** Query API
***** Quirks
****** TODO Confirm API only works on Tuesdays
**** Purchase API
*** Tasks
**** TODO Read the documentation
**** STRT Email about feature
**** DONE Complain about horrible APIs in Slack
The TODO/STRT/DONE entries can be placed anywhere in this hierarchy, and org-mode will take note of them and allow you to build up Agenda views of some/all of your TODOs. So you can ask org to give you a list of tasks filtered by some criteria (e.g. scheduled for this week) - but across many different files.
You can "quickly" jump to arbitrary headings and start building onto the hierarchy. You can "narrow" your view on a sub-heading and the entire edit view becomes only about that sub-heading (so I could narrow my view to just "APIs" and everything below it).
If you want to edit the hierarchy, it's basically a matter of going up and adding some headings ("** HEADING") and using shortcut keys to indent/un-indent (promote/demote) headings.
I find this works really well for me. Allows for brainstorming, keeping notes without pre-organizing them, collapsing irrelevant details when not needed, etc.
Also key for this, you can add UUIDs to individual "nodes" (headings) and those IDs persist with that heading, even if you move the heading to a different spot in the hierarchy (a different heading in the same file, or a different file). So your links (to the UUID, instead of the heading text or file) can be resilient to the restructuring of your data over-time.
There's really a whole lot to org-mode, and it didn't click for me until I watched some YouTube videos, but now I really hate that it offer so much great functionality - but it's tied to Emacs and ultimately feels clunky and slow as a consequence.
Re: FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source
#47I’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 ou…
I think CloudKit is the name of the one that bear is using. It’s part of “iCloud”, but a different service (not the iCloud Drive). It seems to work well.
Obsidian has a few options, but can use iCloud Drive. As you note, it’s a bit hit or miss. Files take a while to sync. Sometimes the desktop won’t bother downloading a file. Hard linked files don’t seem to sync at all. (Obsidian’s paid sync service works well in my experience.)
Re: FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source
#48Haven’t seen Craft mentioned here but amongst almost all of the other already mentioned apps, Craft feels to me like it’s got the whole pack. Native apps, cloud sync that works, option for iCloud sync or offline storage, blocks that turn into pages, multi platform, Markdown, etc.
Re: FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source
#49Haven’t seen Craft mentioned here but amongst almost all of the other already mentioned apps, Craft feels to me like it’s got the whole pack. Native apps, cloud sync that works, option for iCloud sync or offline storage, blocks that turn into pages, multi platform, Markdown, etc.
https://www.craft.do/ I assume you're referring to this, took a bit of googling.
Re: FSNotes: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source
#50I've jumped between note-taking Apps, Evernote, Bear, Typora, Notion, Obsidian, ..., you name it. Finally settled down with Obsidian as I can manage note files directly such as using Syncthing for backing up and syncing. This one does seem interesting and possible to integrate into my workflow, gotta give it a try.
How do you handle sync to mobile with Syncthing? Obs mobile only supports iCloud and their own sync service.
"möbius sync" works pretty well.