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
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!