cross-posted from: https://fosstodon.org/users/notesnook/statuses/114059550980301173
Choose your warrior:
- @StandardNotes
- @[email protected] 🛡️
- @joplinapp
All of these are open source, private and encrypted. Of course, Notesnook is still the best 😉
#notetaking, #privacy, #security, #notesnook, #opensource
I’ve never used a proper note taking app, but recently started using Tana (Startup, free-to-use with some limitations after giving a credit card and cancelling during a two week trial).
It’s not open source and it only supports full HTML bulleted list or a heavily proprietary JSON format (which is kinda useless outside Tana) exports. Also most of the paid features are AI BS which I don’t mind missing out on, but there are file-size limits on the free version.
However, I’m finding the UX and features so far amazing! It’s got easy relationships and a tagging hierarchy systems to which you can add fields and it supports a whole bunch of view options and query stuff. You can scroll through this 46 min YT video to get a feel for it!
Edit: forgot to mention at time pf writing (felt it was implied I guess), it’s cloud only, no local, one of the reasons I feel it’s not ideal
This app seems like the antithesis of this community. This is an ad.
Wow, chill, I stated how it’s not in line with the community. Just thought it was worth the mention as I quite like it, it’s got plenty of UX and features I would love to see in a FOS offering but just haven’t!
I’m part of the community even though I’m not a zealot, in this specific instance I’m very consciously sacrificing a bit of privacy for what I consider a better UX.
My thinking was that best case someone more in the know would point out an app that’s just as good or better and offers the lacking privacy..
Same boat here, recently discovered tana and its whole model is amazing. It's fixing most of the things that bothered me a lot in Obsidian and Notion, respectively. I don't want to go back to a service where I don't have file-based control over my own data though, so now I'm seriously considering building something on my own that takes the mental model of tana, but implements it local-first based on regular files like Obsidian
Ooooh, please spread that far and wide if you ever get around to it!!
Admittedly, that is a pretty big "if". But yeah, if I manage to do it I certainly will!