Have been using fsnotes for a while (MacOS / iOS) for this, syncing it with iCloud
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#12If you’re searching for functionality like this, I recommend you also check out Boostnote. ( https://boostnote.io/ )
Seems lame that to download an open source app, I need to provide them my email address?
It is a bit irksome but you can just type a nonsense email address to get the download link right away.
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#13How does this compare to Joplin?
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#14These apps all seem really similar, but the app that has finally solved all of my needs is inkdrop[0]. It supports all the major desktop platforms, and has iOS and Android apps as well (although fairly basic and not as slick as more established mobile note taking apps). Automatic note syncing (self hosted or as a paid subscription), great notebook and tagging support, in-editor type styling based on markdown tokens (…
Costs more than Notion - is there something that justifies that price? This is getting to be a competitive space (Evernote, Workflowy, and Dynalist are some of the others).
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#15I can recommend Joplin app. https://joplinapp.org/
It's:
- Free and open-source
- Cross-platform
- Support end-to-end encryption
- Synchronization via NextCloud or Dropbox
- Allows you to import notes from EverNote
- Has a web clipper
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#16I appreciate apps like this, but each time I’ve tried a simple editor like this, especially for the markdown support, I end up not using it more than a few times because organization becomes messy.
I had the same problem but started using https://bear.app/ because the search is so good. I add new notes multiple times per day (mostly meeting notes) and don't worry about organization since the search is so great. I love it and even pay a few bucks per month for it. It's kinda like my digital brain.
Bear is sadly Apple world only
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#17There seem to be about a million markdown writing apps, but I don't really understand why they're useful. Granted, I'm someone who writes Java in Vim, but Markdown seems like the one language that's most suited to a simple text editor. It's is already so ergonomic and transparent that I can't really think of anything that would make it easier to write barring an AGI that could decide the words to put down for me. I don't often find myself needing to preview markdown while I'm writing it. I don't think I even really get much out of syntax highlighting. Are there actually a lot of people who get value out of this sort of app?
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#18There seem to be about a million markdown writing apps, but I don't really understand why they're useful. Granted, I'm someone who writes Java in Vim, but Markdown seems like the one language that's most suited to a simple text editor. It's is already so ergonomic and transparent that I can't really think of anything that would make it easier to write barring an AGI that could decide the words to put down for me. I d…
> There seem to be about a million markdown writing apps
And every single one is built on Electron, takes hundreds of megabytes to install, some gigabytes to build while claiming to be "minimal".
> I don't really understand why they're useful
The rendered view usually looks eye-candy which is a factor of inspiration. E.g. I experience immediate emotional reward as soon as I write something in Typora, it feels like calligraphy while is effortless. It's a dopamine trigger which can encourage you to structure and write the stuff down which is good for productivity.
This also means you can produce pretty-looking structured documents while storing them in a concise format which is trivial to both read and to process on almost every machine. You can also use a script to turn an markdown it into a beautiful print-ready PDF by means of LaTeX.
I've even switched to Typora from MS Word.
Needless to say it is particularly convenient to publish Markdown on GitHub pages.
> Markdown seems like the one language that's most suited to a simple text editor
It is, by design, yet rendered view is more pleasure to write and to read.
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#19I can recommend Joplin app. https://joplinapp.org/ It's: - Free and open-source - Cross-platform - Support end-to-end encryption - Synchronization via NextCloud or Dropbox - Allows you to import notes from EverNote - Has a web clipper
You can also sync to the filesystem. I do this so I can use syncthing to synchronize my notes w/o the cloud and duplicati to back them up :)
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#20I've recently switched to using VSCode with these[0] two[1] extensions for all my markdown notes (I completely live off extensive note-taking and have gone through every single possible Markdown editor), and I couldn't be happier.
For the few devices where I don't have it installed, I use Mark Text[2] which is free, open source, cross platform, and lets me edit the same notes (stored locally, and synced to my NAS and OneDrive).
I truly don't understand why so many people are using centralised cloud sync notes, giving up file system access to your files and any reliability that you'll still have access to your notes in the future. People who are serious enough about note taking to require a markdown editor in the first place should be the same people who'd like to make sure their notes will still be available a few years from now. Not to mention the handiness of having your local filesystem when handling notes, eg being able to create a shortcut file in a project directory to link to relevant notes in your notes folder, and do that from multiple different project folders. Or being able to reorganise in bulk, rename in bulk, search/replace, all that stuff OSes have been working on for decades that has listed in the TODO section of their readme.
[0] https://github.com/yzhang-gh/vscode-markdown [1] https://github.com/mushanshitiancai/vscode-paste-image [2] https://github.com/marktext/marktext