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I use ownCloud and plain old text editor. ownCloud has an Android client (it's not free on Google Play but you can build it from source code yourself), and Android text editors are easy to find.
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.owncloud.and...
I've been prototyping in this space for a while now - trying to scratch my own itch, as it were - and seeing as this is climbing the front page I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask HN: what exactly is it you want from this kind of application? I dislike Evernote because of it's lack of structure, dumb text with a few bells and whistles added doesn't work for me. Would love to hear any and all suggestions: person…
I'd like a combination of Evernote and Workflowy. Workflowy is an editable tree of information, but every branch/leave is only one line of text. Screenshot: http://stillblondeafteralltheseyears.com/wp-content/uploads/... Every branch of the tree should be a Evernote-style multi line note with text formatting functionality. The tree would be a file system like structure, but the Workflowy UI feels much less clunky tha…
Just synced text, even if it happens to be markdown text so it's a bit prettier, is not valuable to me.
Evernote's ability to quickly drag in some pictures and throw some text in to explain them is what I want. A real notebook allows me to sketch. A digital notebook must also allow me to incorporate concepts that require pictures because they can't be easily written as text.
To improve Evernote, I would like the "notebooks" to actually be tags, so the same document could appear to reside in multiple places.
I would like it to have h1,h2,h3 header tags, so I could build documentation that had structure, rather than just manually making some text big and bold to pretend to be a header.
I would like a "table" creator or tag, so I could add table data easily.
I will never give up my embedded pictures though.
Amazed no one has mentioned Emacs' org-mode yet. Nothing I've ever tried comes close to the flexibility and usefulness of org-mode in Emacs. Combined w/ MobileOrg sync and the MobileOrg app, it serves all of my note-taking needs quite well. It's much more than dumb text, too, like Evernote. Structured documents with headers, markdown-like formatting, links, fast-capture templates for stray thoughts, an Agenda system…
Paperwork ( https://github.com/twostairs/paperwork ): OpenSource note-taking & archiving alternative to Evernote, Microsoft OneNote & Google Keep
Or even Zim [0] which doesn't required any webserver or DB.
I like to store my data locally, so that influences the choice of my note taking software. I use cintanotes portable myself... http://portableapps.com/apps/office/cintanotes-portable It is not "opensource", but it has been most useful for keeping notes, tagging, and categorising I also use http://portableapps.com/apps/office/keepnote-portable ( http://keepnote.org/ ) which is FOSS and also http://portableapps.com/app…