1y ago

[Solved] I want to ditch Nextcloud notes

Hi.

I'm curently using Nextcloud notes for its convenience. I use the app on my phone, and the webui on my pc.

I'm willing to ditch Nextcloud as a whole, so I want to replace my note taking habits.

I've tried Trilium, which lacks an Android app, and I feel the WPA makes the UI unpractical and hard to read.

I've tried Joplin, but it lacks a webui.

Are there other alternatives I've missed out ?

Solution: I ended up finding Flatnotes. It's dead simple to run and to use, has markdown and WYSIWYG, and the WPA is flawless.

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I asked this a couple of weeks ago, there were many solid suggestions: https://lemm.ee/post/4593760
I ended up with Joplin and am very happy with it.

I started on a similar journey (escaping from Evernote rather than Nextcloud), and ended up on Silverbullet run at home and accessed over Tailscale. It is a bit of a different approach and has a small upfront learning time. I love having all my notes as reasonably plain markdown, so if I ever want to change my solution, my data's in an easily movable format - for example changing to Obsidian would not involve any import/export.
- +1 for silver bullet. Love it. PWA works great. And it works offline I believe.
- That looks really interesting, I'm fairly happy with Joplin but SB looks like how I’d do things if I wrote something like this.

Org-mode, with Orgzly on Android, sync via a WebDav server, which you can also mount on you PC and literally use any editor to edit.
- Filestash also has a Orgmode web-ui and works on top of WebDAV.

Notesnook is not ready for self-hosting yet, but it’s up next on their roadmap. I’ve been trying it out in advance and it seems to work ok. The only issue I have with it is that it logs you out of the apps way too often.
- Looks promising. I'll be following. Thanks

Are there certain features you've grown to rely on?
I use plaintext documents with markdown. There's a markdown editor for the web. Markor is an excellent Android app. Take your pick of a number of text editors with markdown.
- Just need a nice webui and a nice android app. But I need both.

Thanks for going back and updating with your solution - I'm gonna check that out.

The WebApp for trillium works great compared to the desktop app. You won't tell a difference

Joplin via Dropbox (free account) is effortless and painless. I used to sync it via nextcloud and it always gave me issues. It has an iOS, Android, and Desktop app so why do you need Web Ui?
- A webui can be extremely useful on, say, a work computer with strict install policies, or if you're borrowing someone else's machine and need to look something up (maybe you're fixing or installing something on someone else's computer and want your notes easily accessible).
  
  Makes sense

Memos might do the trick for you. There is a 3rd party android native app, but I found the PWA to be quite good. Markdown is stored in a single sqlite db file though, if that bugs you.
- I use memos already, but for another purpose. This app is great :)

It is odd that there’s no web app for Joplin given that it’s written in TypeScript. It’s such a commonly requested feature, I wonder what the problem is.

See https://lemm.ee/post/4593760 for a related post and more discussions about pros and cons of each.

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