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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] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thank you!!!

I finally got it working with some issues. But working.

I think I was lagging on moving because it was super annoying proprietary file format. I finally decided to bite the bullet because I was looking for a specific image that I uploaded a day ago and it’s not loading.

The main thing issue I had with the 3 options you provided had an issue in Windows.

1 https://github.com/Maboroshy/Note-Station-to-markdown/ This had major issue in Windows and Linux. For some reason, it didn’t process any of the files correctly. I don’t recommend using this.

2- https://github.com/xinbindai/Note-Station-to-Joplin This one is the one that actually worked but only in Linux. In Windows it completely bugs out. I had to install Mint on a VM and install python3 to be able to run this. Unfortunately, it too had problems. It was not able to process any files larger than 250 MB and completely ignored files like .tar.gz and even .pdf. I’m just going through my notes and manually doing it.

3- https://github.com/andreas-vester/notestation-to-joplin This git is completely abandoned. This requires a github api(joplin-api) and the file has been deleted.

Overall I have the majority of my files and I’m hoping I don’t have to move from Joplin for awhile. But I’m glad to know that its easier to move if I need to.

Thanks for the help internet friend. I appreciate you!

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

Damn, you've definitely put in the work. Thank you for providing such a detailed feedback, meaning that thanks to you this is now the most up to date resource on how to move from Note Station to Joplin for future peeps that have your same problem!

I think you can rest assured that you've made the best choice in moving to a more flexible format now, regardless of any future "Joplin vs. Obsidian vs. whatever" discussions that might come up. Because if you're annoyed with Note Station now, I can absolutely guarantee that moving decades worth of .nsx notes for all your family, potentially manually, would have been hell on earth in the future.

One last experiment, now that you can: Let's say you wanna move from Joplin to Obsidian tomorrow. These are the #1 and #2 results when searching for "Import Joplin to Obsidian". Just take a look. It's almost comically easy compared to now, so I'd say bright times are ahead :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the feedback. I finally got all my files over. I got past the 250mg limit by going into the user admin on the server and changing the default to 1tb(the max). The devs says that it's a limitation of postgre but it seems to be working.

A simple way to find all my missing files was to search in Joplin for"NOT FOUND" and all the notes with missing files show up. Just went one by one reuploading the files.

One of the highlights of Notestation is that it's designed for normies. It uses Rich text editor.

My first client(my wife) on Joplin is already complaining because the android client is markdowns only. She is semi ok with it because the desktop client is a fake Rich text editor wrapper.

Obsidian is 100% markdowns. Not going to fly with the rest of the family.

Thanks again for the help!!