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

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Post by setpatchaddress »

istingray wrote: post #79
atombender wrote: post #73

I keep seeing apps like these, and what they almost never have is sharing notes between multiple people. I use Apple Notes, and I constantly share notes with my wife — and entire folder structures, too. We use it for grocery lists, dinner planning, travel planning, and many other things. It's not quite as elegantly real-time as Google Docs, but we don't need that as much, since we tend to edit at different times. I a…

Here here. I love Apple Notes. I don't even need a title for notes - iOS just takes the top line of the note. Is it that hard to create an open source hosted version? Just get out of the way and let me take a note! As I posted in this thread, I will pay $100/year for this solution. The closest I've found is Standard Notes, but it's missing a few things.

Out of curiosity, why not just use Notes?

(I’m aware there are legit reasons, but I’m curious about your scenario.)

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

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Post by jtsiskin »

istingray wrote: post #81
mithusingh32 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you looked into Joplin?

I appreciate the suggestion. I checked it out at the same time as Standard Notes. It seems to break the Simple + Plain criteria. For example on the main nav, pressing "+" prompts to either New Note or New To Do. And all the references to "notebooks". Too much for me.

I just ignore the To Do feature, and have everything in one notebook. This makes it pretty similar to apple notes

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

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Post by flyingchipmann »

lostintangent wrote: post #58

After GitHub.dev was released (hit “.” on any GitHub repo, to open it in browser-based VS Code), I immediately saw the notetaking workflow that I wanted: a GitHub repo, storing markdown that I can own/control, but editable in the browser, using my existing VS Code preferences (theme, keybindings, etc.). Unfortunately, VS Code doesn’t natively support wiki links, so I created an extension that simply adds that feature…

Similarly for me. I just use github private repo for non essential personal note, edit them online or with my text editor. So easy

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

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Post by istingray »

setpatchaddress wrote: post #91
istingray wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here here. I love Apple Notes. I don't even need a title for notes - iOS just takes the top line of the note. Is it that hard to create an open source hosted version? Just get out of the way and let me take a note! As I posted in this thread, I will pay $100/year for this solution. The closest I've found is Standard Notes, but it's missing a few things.

Out of curiosity, why not just use Notes? (I’m aware there are legit reasons, but I’m curious about your scenario.)

Moving off Apple's ecosystem. Their definition of privacy/surveillance falls short of "human rights" level privacy and only protects against advertisers and hackers.

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

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Post by istingray »

jtsiskin wrote: post #92
istingray wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I appreciate the suggestion. I checked it out at the same time as Standard Notes. It seems to break the Simple + Plain criteria. For example on the main nav, pressing "+" prompts to either New Note or New To Do. And all the references to "notebooks". Too much for me.

I just ignore the To Do feature, and have everything in one notebook. This makes it pretty similar to apple notes

Have you tried Standard Notes? Less stuff to ignore. Still not ideal but much cleaner.

And holler if you find something that is even better!

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

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Post by istingray »

mithusingh32 wrote: post #90
istingray wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I appreciate the suggestion. I checked it out at the same time as Standard Notes. It seems to break the Simple + Plain criteria. For example on the main nav, pressing "+" prompts to either New Note or New To Do. And all the references to "notebooks". Too much for me.

That's fair. The syncing is bit janky if you're careful. But having a self-hosted option is what attracted me. I don't trust anyone with my data anymore.

Apparently you can self host Standard Notes --

From Standard Notes: Standard Notes is free and open-source software, which means self-hosting both ends (the app and server) is both totally possible and very easy." https://standardnotes.com/help/47/can-i-self-host-standard-n...

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

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Post by ibdf »

Ugh… I have been through so many notes apps and half of them look like this one… boostnote, quicksilver, apple notes… all offer just the basics. I’m with Notion right now because I can add files and images easily, and can create some more complex layouts that you can’t achieve with markdown, but I’m still not satisfied… Notion biggest flaw for me is trying to make every table a relationship database.

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

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Post by rjzzleep »

ibdf wrote: post #97

Ugh… I have been through so many notes apps and half of them look like this one… boostnote, quicksilver, apple notes… all offer just the basics. I’m with Notion right now because I can add files and images easily, and can create some more complex layouts that you can’t achieve with markdown, but I’m still not satisfied… Notion biggest flaw for me is trying to make every table a relationship database.

I haven't used notion, but isn't that what they market as their biggest selling point?

It's basically a modern pretty Access in some ways. Can you explain why you dislike that part?

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

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Post by crossroadsguy »

atombender wrote: post #73

I keep seeing apps like these, and what they almost never have is sharing notes between multiple people. I use Apple Notes, and I constantly share notes with my wife — and entire folder structures, too. We use it for grocery lists, dinner planning, travel planning, and many other things. It's not quite as elegantly real-time as Google Docs, but we don't need that as much, since we tend to edit at different times. I a…

One good reason to not use Apple’s software offerings is to be able to keep eggs in more than one basket. Treat Apple like the hardware seller they should be? They’re below average at best at software anyway. Other than the upper layer polish.

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

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Post by julianz »

rjzzleep wrote: post #98
ibdf wrote: post #97

Ugh… I have been through so many notes apps and half of them look like this one… boostnote, quicksilver, apple notes… all offer just the basics. I’m with Notion right now because I can add files and images easily, and can create some more complex layouts that you can’t achieve with markdown, but I’m still not satisfied… Notion biggest flaw for me is trying to make every table a relationship database.

I haven't used notion, but isn't that what they market as their biggest selling point? It's basically a modern pretty Access in some ways. Can you explain why you dislike that part?

Because sometimes you just want a bit of tabular formatting within a note. The table feature is really, really cool when you want to use it, but if you don't it's a bit OTT - e.g. every table has a bunch of chrome at the bottom with a row count, some auto-totalling things, a new row button etc.

I'm also a little unclear what happens if I export to another product, do my tables show up as tables in the new product or as a thousand small notes each with one row of one table in?

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