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

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Post by gingerlime » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 6:05 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #3

FSNotes is amazing. It's what I've settled on, not liking the lock-in (bad export options) of Notes.app, paying for increasingly crappier Evernote (I used in the past), cloud-sync-based note apps, very barebones FOSS apps, half-arsed stuff like Agenda, and Electron crap.

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)

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

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Post by chrisweekly » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 6:06 PM UTC

LVB wrote: post #6

I’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…

FWIW, Obsidian's native apps (macOS and iOS) work great, with the Obsidian.md Sync feature.

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

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Post by rado » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 6:11 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #3

FSNotes is amazing. It's what I've settled on, not liking the lock-in (bad export options) of Notes.app, paying for increasingly crappier Evernote (I used in the past), cloud-sync-based note apps, very barebones FOSS apps, half-arsed stuff like Agenda, and Electron crap.

I love Notes, but the lack of Watch support is inexplicable.

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

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Post by inportb » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 6:16 PM UTC

jmnicolas wrote: post #4

I only ever had a Windows then a Linux machine, but it seems to me that all the cool apps are on Apple.

You could install Joplin and be cool too.

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

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Post by rmorey » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 6:19 PM UTC

jmnicolas wrote: post #4

I only ever had a Windows then a Linux machine, but it seems to me that all the cool apps are on Apple.

this was me, about 4 years ago, when I started using the Mac - and honestly you're totally right.

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

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Post by Keverw » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 6:23 PM UTC

So funny this pops up. Last few days I've been wanting a new notes app that wasn't using some database and was files based, plus I feel like other notes app rich text copying and pasting notes can be a mess. Plus a bit unorganized so wanted a new notes app and just copy things over as I need. This one looks pretty prefect for my wants.

I also like how it has both folders and hash tags too instead of being forced to pick one over the other.

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

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Post by utunbu » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 6:24 PM UTC

Keverw wrote: post #16

So funny this pops up. Last few days I've been wanting a new notes app that wasn't using some database and was files based, plus I feel like other notes app rich text copying and pasting notes can be a mess. Plus a bit unorganized so wanted a new notes app and just copy things over as I need. This one looks pretty prefect for my wants. I also like how it has both folders and hash tags too instead of being forced to p…

Just curious if you had tried Obsidian (https://obsidian.md)?

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

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Post by technological » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 6:25 PM UTC

blondin wrote: post #5

coldtea wrote: post #3

FSNotes is amazing. It's what I've settled on, not liking the lock-in (bad export options) of Notes.app, paying for increasingly crappier Evernote (I used in the past), cloud-sync-based note apps, very barebones FOSS apps, half-arsed stuff like Agenda, and Electron crap.

long time google keep user. i am seriously considering migrating my hundreds of notes and recipes to notes.app because i have been having a bad feeling about keep. you are saying the grass isn't greener on that side either? what's bad about notes.app besides lock-in and export?

I am in same boat (long time keep user) h. How do you plan to migrate from google keep

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

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Post by franczesko » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 6:26 PM UTC

Unfortunately, the platform lock is a deal breaker for me. After testing a lot of different note apps, I'm currently using Joplin.

It does 95% of the things I need quite right. I'm not sure, if it's only my problem, but I really struggled to find a good app for note taking, although there's a plethora of solutions out there.

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

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Post by utunbu » Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 6:29 PM UTC

I'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.