Hey, I’m looking for a note app to replace notion. The main features I’m looking for are the ability to have different notebooks (or folders), the ability to have notes available offline(something I recently realized notion does not do), the ability so search in notes for words or phrases, and preferably a sync feature to backup notes to a desktop or another device. If anyone has any reccomendations I’d love to hear they and give them a try. Thanks!
I use obsidian on my phone, with the WebDAV sync plugin to my self hosted nextcloud and vim on any pc or laptop. I would recommend to back up all existing notes as markdown files, set up the obsidian vault (it’s just a folder) as you plan to use it, and then reintroduce all content from the pc. Otherwise, there might be strange conflicts with the sync plugin.
I can’t remember exactly, but I think the only problem was that you can’t (or at least I was not competent enough) add existing markdown files which are already in nextcloud to the sync process. So instead I added the empty named markdown files in obsidian, triggered the sync, and then populate each file on the desktop.
And I was very picky about my folder/vault naming because of my desktop setup (and the rest of my cloud structure), but generally it is really easy to set up if you have tried it once on some dummy data so you don’t accidentally ruin something.
I do not use any"thing" apart from the aforementioned sync plugin (called ‘remotely save’), as I am very standards compliant with my stuff. But I think the editor is very extendable in comparison to other android options.
I have used Nextcloud notes, Obsidean, Onenote, Logseq and Anytype. Anytype is my favorite so far. It’s open source, sync is E2E using IPFS, and Anytype also backs up your notes and 1GB of files on their infrastructure for free.
thanks for the recommendation, ive been playing around few of the option but this seems like the one that will work best for me. it was easy to set up on both my desktop and phone and seems to have all the functionality i need
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Look into Joplin :) its also opensource and you can selfhost it :)
Quillpad is nice. I’ve been using it for about a year now. It satisfies all the 4 requirements as well.
Obsidian.md, but the sync feature is paid
I use obsidian on my phone, with the WebDAV sync plugin to my self hosted nextcloud and vim on any pc or laptop. I would recommend to back up all existing notes as markdown files, set up the obsidian vault (it’s just a folder) as you plan to use it, and then reintroduce all content from the pc. Otherwise, there might be strange conflicts with the sync plugin.
Hope that helps
I’ve been reading about Obsidian. How easy is the Android set up? I’ve got a similar set up to you by the sound of it.
I’ve been using nextcloud notes forever. Is there a must-have “thing” for Obsidian?
I can’t remember exactly, but I think the only problem was that you can’t (or at least I was not competent enough) add existing markdown files which are already in nextcloud to the sync process. So instead I added the empty named markdown files in obsidian, triggered the sync, and then populate each file on the desktop. And I was very picky about my folder/vault naming because of my desktop setup (and the rest of my cloud structure), but generally it is really easy to set up if you have tried it once on some dummy data so you don’t accidentally ruin something.
I do not use any"thing" apart from the aforementioned sync plugin (called ‘remotely save’), as I am very standards compliant with my stuff. But I think the editor is very extendable in comparison to other android options.
By far, Noto
I really like UpNote, pretty simple but it’s fast and has enough features to make it reasonably powerful (altho much less so than Notion)
I have used Nextcloud notes, Obsidean, Onenote, Logseq and Anytype. Anytype is my favorite so far. It’s open source, sync is E2E using IPFS, and Anytype also backs up your notes and 1GB of files on their infrastructure for free.
Notesnook
thanks for the recommendation, ive been playing around few of the option but this seems like the one that will work best for me. it was easy to set up on both my desktop and phone and seems to have all the functionality i need
I’m using Joplin and I’m quite happy with it :)
Seconded. Joplin is full featured, has sync and FOSS.
I love Noteless as my note taking app as it also supports markdown. Sync is via Syncthing.
Appflowy is a FOSS alternative to Notion if you want something closer to home
I make good use of OneNote by Microsoft which syncs with the desktop version. I don’t think you need to be a M365 user to use any of the features.