Welcome! This is a community for all those who are interested in protecting their privacy.
PS: Don't be a smartass and try to game the system, we'll know if you're breaking the rules when we see it!
cross-posted from: https://fosstodon.org/users/notesnook/statuses/114059550980301173
Choose your warrior:
- @StandardNotes
- @[email protected] ๐ก๏ธ
- @joplinapp
All of these are open source, private and encrypted. Of course, Notesnook is still the best ๐
#notetaking, #privacy, #security, #notesnook, #opensource
Where's Zettlr & LogSeq ?
I don't understand why these Google alternatives don't lean hard on actually replacing Google's services.
Myself as an example; if Notesnook had collaboration, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
Thr main use-case for an app like this for me is in things like grocery lists, to-do lists etc, all of which are impossible or annoying to do with Notesnook.
For general offline notes that need to be encrypted there are other solutions I'd rather use. I'd like if I could just use one app for it.
Me and my partner would HAPPILY pay for an app to get out of Google'S clutches.
There's money on the table, but they ain't counting it yet.
Why?
Have you looked into AnyList? Nevermind, I don't think they are 100% private. Forgot what sub I was in.
I have multiple notes apps but one thing that's prevented me from ditching keep is that I have dozens of old notes which I'd like to transfer to the replacement app.
I'm pretty tech savvy but have had a look and couldn't find an easy way to export my notes from keep. Anyone have any advice?
Obsidian imports keep notes and does a good job. Its not open source but does store locally as markdown files, and is the only notes app I've tried that I really like so far.
I've spent a lot of time manually moving my notes into Obsidian. Not done yet but it's quite therapeutic when I sit down to do and I rediscover a lot of cool things I decided to jot down years ago
The best note taking tool for privacy is one of those physical journals with a lock on it.
What's everyone's goto app for sharing notes with others? I'm looking for something to share grocery lists and whatnot with my SO, and I want as little friction as possible.
I have some self-hosted services, but I didn't like NextCloud notes and one or two others I've tried. It doesn't need to be fancy, but I would very much like checkboxes that I can... check. I don't need users, and honestly, no user accounts could be super nice, just attach a URL and go for it.
So yeah, slight preference for self-hostable services, but I'm fine with anything, provided it's reasonably privacy friendly (nobody else needs to know the quantity or size of our sex toys lol).
Memos might work, I had it running for a week or two and it works well, very Google Keep like if that's what you're after. Edit woops, forgot the link lol https://github.com/usememos/memos
Seconding Memos!
There's no official phone app, but I've been using Moe Memos and liking it. They have a list of 3rd party apps here: https://www.usememos.com/docs/contribution/community
Take a look at the sandstorm platform. The Laverna app is a great option in my opinion.
I switched from Win10 to Fedora Linux yesterday. Any recommendations for a note taking app that runs locally on my computer? I know nothing about Linux but I got upset because Windows started showing ads on my login screen.
Obsidian, I truly believe this is the answer on most popular operating systems, not just Linux.
I just store my notes locally. Using QOwnNotes currently as I looked at a list of FOSS options and picked what I liked the look of. Manage my own backups already so just included the notes.
After looking at Notesnook, I don't really understand the difference. It has features that Google Keep lacks, but if the company were to shut down their servers I would lose anything not stored locally, right? If I delete a file on one device it's presumably removed from the others upon sync, so couldn't they remotely delete my files from any connected device if they wanted to?
I don't understand encryption in the first place, so this is probably an ignorant question, but can't the company that runs the software choose to release the encryption keys anyway? My understanding is that encryption only protects my data from interception by a third party.
Assuming I'm not wrong on those points, isn't it better to only store files locally, and to share them either on physical media or via a service which won't store the files long-term? Is the issue of leaked or lost data not inherent in any hosting service?
Sorry if everything I'm saying is really stupid. I'm not trying to troll or argue in favor of Google services or anything. I just don't understand how to evaluate any given service's trustworthiness or safety.
e: I just thought to check whether Google Keep is encrypted and the internet says it is. Now I extra don't get it. Very confused.
Regarding encryption, some companies hold the encryption keys, but many, including Notesnook, use end-to-end encryption. This means the encryption happens on your device and the keys are generated from your password and stored locally rather than on the company's servers.
In that scenario the company never has access to the keys in the first place, so they wouldnโt be able to release them even if they wanted to.
Google Keep on the other hand does not use end-to-end encryption for your notes. While it does use encryption to protect data both during transmission and while stored on its servers, Google retains the ability to access the content of your notes. This means that although your data is safeguarded against external threats, Google's internal systems can still access your information.
Thank you, that makes sense.
Tiddlywiki with the Stroll extension for backlinks. Stored as one big encrypted file you can lob onto a network drive etc. Mine is in Dropbox.
Can't really use it across devices safely though, or at least I haven't tried.
I found no replacement for notion that uses this block structure. I love it, but notion sucks so much aaaaaaassss. I wanna move, but every export feature breaks something in my structure and i hate it :(
I have a Synology NAS which has the DS Note app which gives you self-hosted cloud notes on mobile. It's not the best app but it's better than google
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