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A structured note-taking app for personal use

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Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use

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Post by vunderba »

Nice going. I've gone through quite the list of note taking tools from a bunch of unorganized text files, to Microsoft OneNote, to Evernote before it became a total pile of molten garbage, Logseq, and finally settled on Obsidian.

There's a healthy ecosystem of plug-ins, searching is highly performant, all of my files are just structured in folders as markdown files so there's zero vendor lock-in, has a very good mobile app, and I use git for easy sync / versioning.

The only downside is that it's not open source.

Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use

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Post by burnished »

Ringz wrote: post #14
Yodel0914 wrote: post #3

This looks pretty nice. In the same space, personally, I'm a huge fan of Joplin. Apps for every platform I care about, and the ability to self-host the server component (which is what I do). I has some really nice features, like import/export of directories of markdown files, and sharing notebooks with other users.

Since Joplin's developer decided to put all Markdown files into a database and thus give up all the advantages of a flat file system, I have uninstalled Joplin. In my view, the last discussion in Joplin's forum on this topic further discredited the developer.

That seems an odd take given the content of the discussion: https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/why-im-leaving-joplin-for-... Especially since it looks like a solution via plugin was identified?

Thanks for bringing it up though, I went for spicy programmer drama but instead found a somewhat interesting and incredibly polite disagreement. I am curious about what happened that they have such a solid opinion about acceptable use of file metadata.

Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use

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Post by uxp8u61q »

atoav wrote: post #15
0xyz wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Currently, you can install it as a PWA app. when the web version is stable, I will develop a desktop app.

In which format are the notes stored? Many of us have been bitten by vendor lock in before, so we prefer our notes tobe in simple human readable formats that can also be read in 30 years when your app (more likely than not) doesn't exist anymore.

If you expect that your notes will still be valuable in 30 years, then you should probably migrate them to something other than a quick note taking app. If everything I wrote into onenote before eg last year disappeared right now, I wouldn't lose much sleep.

Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use

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Post by dathos »

simonbw wrote: post #18

For me it seems like the Previous Day and Next Day buttons have an off-by-one error. Next day keeps me on the same day and Previous Day takes me back 2 days.

It’s even worse for me, already the first load is full of UI errors.

- The splash screen asking me to install as PWA or to go to the web app is not hiding the app. Overlapping the text and confusing me - The buttons for the days don’t work - The calendar selector is not working either

Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use

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Post by [deleted] »

atoav wrote: post #15
0xyz wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Currently, you can install it as a PWA app. when the web version is stable, I will develop a desktop app.

In which format are the notes stored? Many of us have been bitten by vendor lock in before, so we prefer our notes tobe in simple human readable formats that can also be read in 30 years when your app (more likely than not) doesn't exist anymore.

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Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use

#30

Post by szszrk »

vunderba wrote: post #21

Nice going. I've gone through quite the list of note taking tools from a bunch of unorganized text files, to Microsoft OneNote, to Evernote before it became a total pile of molten garbage, Logseq, and finally settled on Obsidian. There's a healthy ecosystem of plug-ins, searching is highly performant, all of my files are just structured in folders as markdown files so there's zero vendor lock-in, has a very good mobi…

What you disliked about Logseq? Are you good at self-organizing (were you before)?

While the initial experience is super confusing and I barely knew what that tool is supposed to do, later on it turned out to be the first tool that helped me keep some structure in my notes.

I love note taking but I'm horrible at it, chaotic and inconsistent. Daily notes plus the way logseq easily links articles gave me some decent notes. I even left those to my colleagues when I switched jobs and even plain markdown files were useful for them.

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