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Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

#41

This seems like the best place to ask, does anyone have any recommendations for a very simple notes tool that can be easily shared amongst a family or team? Preferably mobile friendly, Even if just in browser.

I like Joplin, and the sharing is done via Dropbox or a number of other backends. Have a Dropbox shared folder that everyone has access to, and you can edit notes. Joplin is a great note taker in general, as well, and the mobile app is great.

Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

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That’s my only gripe with obsidian.. I’d like sync between my devices that avoids central servers.

Charging for the sync is their primary revenue model. Zotero is doing the same. I don’t bemoan this approach that basically gives everything local away for free.

Having an easy way to sync is kind of a core feature of a note taking app.

I'm not sure how profitable Notion is though.

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#45

Obsidian has replaced all (work, home, mobile) note taking solutions everywhere for me. The last want from my side is removing the friction related to editing markdown tables (e.g. multi-line content in cells) - Obsidian has some plugins that makes things better but it is miles behind what, say, confluence wiki offers for tables.

I found the Obsidian mobile app to be really flaky. Unreliable sync and it didn’t feel at all like a native app (on iOS at least).

Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

#46
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s my only gripe with obsidian.. I’d like sync between my devices that avoids central servers.

Charging for the sync is their primary revenue model. Zotero is doing the same. I don’t bemoan this approach that basically gives everything local away for free.

It’s a tricky one in this age of “free”. I’d ironically pay for them to allow my agency and privacy, I’m probably not _most_ people though.

Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

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post #41

This seems like the best place to ask, does anyone have any recommendations for a very simple notes tool that can be easily shared amongst a family or team? Preferably mobile friendly, Even if just in browser.

I like Joplin, and the sharing is done via Dropbox or a number of other backends. Have a Dropbox shared folder that everyone has access to, and you can edit notes. Joplin is a great note taker in general, as well, and the mobile app is great.

Joplin isn't that easy to setup for family. It also doesn't work like that for Dropbox, it links to a specific app folder on your own account. I'm also not sure about distributed editing it would result in a lot of conflict notes that you manually must fix.

Just use Notion or Google Drive folder with docs if you don't have too many notes.

Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

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post #27

Obsidian has replaced all (work, home, mobile) note taking solutions everywhere for me. The last want from my side is removing the friction related to editing markdown tables (e.g. multi-line content in cells) - Obsidian has some plugins that makes things better but it is miles behind what, say, confluence wiki offers for tables.

Is it ok for you to pay 8$ monthly for sync between devices? Or did you use another way of sync or don't use it at all?

$8 USD ($12 AUD) seems incredibly expensive just to sync your markdown notes around. That’s three times the price of my entire iCloud services (which apps other than Obsidian sync with fine, but Obsidian has all sorts of issues with it).

Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

#49
post #45

Obsidian has replaced all (work, home, mobile) note taking solutions everywhere for me. The last want from my side is removing the friction related to editing markdown tables (e.g. multi-line content in cells) - Obsidian has some plugins that makes things better but it is miles behind what, say, confluence wiki offers for tables.

I found the Obsidian mobile app to be really flaky. Unreliable sync and it didn’t feel at all like a native app (on iOS at least).

I'm not an Electron hater but I really want notes apps to feel as responsive as possible.

Re: Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero

#50
post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found the Obsidian mobile app to be really flaky. Unreliable sync and it didn’t feel at all like a native app (on iOS at least).

I'm not an Electron hater but I really want notes apps to feel as responsive as possible.

Ive been using Bear (now Bear 2 beta) for years for that reason, but I really wish it had a few features such as shared notebooks and a plug-in system.
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