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Help finding a new notes app (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thank you for clicking my post.

I'm currently running a Synology Notestation with around 8 clients and while it mostly works, sometimes images don't load correctly(or doesn't at all) and has failed on me one too many times.

I'm looking for another notes app similar to DS notes.

1- Rich Text Editor 2- Self hosted 3- Has multiple users enabled 4- Native Android app

Nice to have: 1- offline mode 2- FOSS 3- Has an active community

I host files for my entire family and they rely on notes for all their important documents. So it has to be simple to use.

I have tried benotes, but not having a Native Android app makes it hard for normies to use it. I also tried Joplin, but it's single user only.

Thank you for the suggestions.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Obsidian.md hands down if you can transition to markdown instead of rich text. Lets users have wiki style hyperlinks to notes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Obsidian is one of those applications I sooo want to install because everyone loves it, but to me if I'm going through the pain of selfhosting I want to go FOSS only. Argh!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The thing I most appreciate about Obsidian is, for now at least, they at least partially embrace a sort of FOSS mindset in that they offer a proprietary thing via a sort of compromise: your data is stored in plain text in markdown, so it remains 100% portable and parseable by anything which can parse markdown.

But I get what you mean.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've been trying it, but the outrageous cost to sync across devices is really annoying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Via their Sync service, yes. If you’re in the Apple ecosystem, they officially endorse iCloud to sync your files, which I personally use. They discourage using Dropbox, but I reckon it’s possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I'm on Android and I've been experimenting with an App called FolderSync and Google Drive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And there's also the live sync extension which allows you to have live document syncs in real time via your own self-hosted CouchDB instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

So many—almost too many—extensions!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I use markdowns at work and enjoy using it. Its faster for me. Normies will have a hard time figuring it out.