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Looking for Notes App for Android & Linux (self.opensource)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Shady_Shiroe to c/[email protected]

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I am trying to slowly de-Google-ify myself by moving to open source apps, I wanna ditch google notes and evernote. I tried obsidian, standard notes, and joplin, I liked using obsidian on PC and standard notes looks nice on android but obsidian you need to pay to have sync and standard notes doesn't do markdown unless you pay (are plugins only on PC???). Joplin has most features I need but I don't like how it looks/feels on android (haven't tried in PC yet)

Basically what I want the most in a notes app is offline with sync capability for phone and PC, would be nice to make folders for notes like notepads on evernote, and md is a big plus but I can live without it. I would love if I could use something like proton drive for cloud sync and wouldn't mind paying for obsidian if it was cheaper cuz $8 per month is too much for my minimum pay and I didnt see any cheaper plans.

EDIT: If no one has any better suggestions, I am thinking of trying to setup obsidian with syncthing.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Because of a different Lemmy post, I'm just now trying out Orgzly. It looks terrific so far, and I think it meets all your needs. It stores everything in plain text, so you just have to sync the text files.

edit: as noptys points out, Orgzly Revived is what you want to use (and what I meant to recommend).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, I see Orgzly uses Org mode formatting in plain text - https://orgmode.org/features.html

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

If you enjoy Orgzly, the updated fork is likely what you want - https://f-droid.org/packages/com.orgzlyrevived/ It has bug fixes, additional features, and is under active development.