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Recommendations for a FOSS Cross-Platform Note-Taking Application (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Up to now I've been using Simplenote, which has a Linux client (but also Android & iOS) & supports live collaboration on notes. However, Simplenote hasn't had a meaningful update for a long time, & it's recently been behaving strangely, e.g. notes undeleting themselves, line duplications & undeletions.

Can anyone recommend an alternative? Spinning up an ownCloud/nextcloud instance just to use Joplin feels a little overkill. I stumbled across turtl, but the project looks abandoned.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m rethinking how I keep notes etc and something you wrote really caught my attention; that you don’t use it for journaling but do for note-taking.

What are the differences between note taking and journaling that requires different applications? Also, what do you use for journaling in that case?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Joplin is really good for notes, (I tried uploading a Screenshot for you, but keep getting errors) , how and what to do when installing a Linux for instance. With it's sub categories. But for me at least it's useless for a daily diary use. I've been using Diaro on my phone for years now for my personal journal, as it's perfect for noting what do on the day, though I would like to have another option without my data being stored with them, syncing straight to my Dropbox or NextCloud for instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for explaining. I’ve never considered using separate apps before, but I do get a little lost having everything in one app.

What features does Diaryo have that makes it better for journaling? I always thought of journaling as just note-taking about a different subject (my day).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just that Diaro and others diary apps are setup so that you see the date, title, tags, just like a paper version, again, something that you can't easily do in Joplin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ahh, I get you now. That makes sense. Thanks so much for taking the time to explain this to me. For chronological stuff I might use a different app also.

I had just been adding the newer entries above the previous. I’d put a heading on those in the format of YYY-MM-DD but that’s all manual on my part.