I’ve gone handwritten, obsidian, onenote, and now Trilium. Considering switching to something else because there is no offline mobile support.
I use memos and trilium together but since neither offers mobile offline support considering switching both. No reason to run two services when I could run one.
Considering:
- Joplin
- Logseq
- SiYuan
- ?
Joplin for many years. I use my Nextcloud to sync between desktops and mobile. It saves notes locally on each devive, so offline mode works nicely.
I have a trillium sync server setup, and connect to my network using a VM. The web interface works well enough for what I need it to do. I really wish there was an app for my phone, though.
Obsidian with Obsidian-git (https://github.com/Vinzent03/obsidian-git) to sync
https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync
Works very well on android and windows /linux clients.
Syncing is automatic and happens in seconds. I think the git solution had a few issues on android but I’ve never used it
This is what i use. Its awesome
Vim to edit markdown files. I use syncthing to sync between phone and other devices. I edit using markor on android.
I’ve tried other software, but usually discover that vim keybinds dont exist (even as a plugin) or opening as plain old markdown isnt available, so I give up and try the next one. I’ve finally accepted that for me, vim and markdown is my endgame note taking solution.
It sounds like you’ve found something that works for you, but if you’re interested in trying other things obsidian stores and renders in plain markdown, and also has a vim mode
I cannot recommend Silver Bullet enough
This was the missing piece of the puzzle I needed to actually get organized and write things down. The graph based linking system allows me to link ideas together without any sort of hierarchy, which I adore.
I mostly use this to DM my groups Pathfinder campaign, but also use it for general note taking as well.
Well this is dope, me likely. thanks
I have to admit I prefer Obsidian, even though it’s not self hosted.
But all of my data is local. Even if I use Obsidian Sync and Obsidian goes under, I still have all my files on different machines (on top of regular backups) and I can use some other Markdown editor.
Does not have offline support tho … https://github.com/outline/outline
Obsidian, any day, all day.
- Desktop client on macOS computer and laptop
- Desktop client on Fedora Linux laptop
- Android app on phone
- Everything synced with Dropbox
- Dropsync to sync Dropbox to phone
- Local and cloud backup (Backblaze B2 + Google Drive) his my NAS
I love it so much that I live in near constant fear for them to somehow enshittify it 😔
Markdown files in either git or Nextcloud. Mostly VS Codium for editing them but also Kate, Vim, or whatever else is available on the machine I’m using.
I second markdown with Nextcloud notes and I’ll add Markor as Android markdown editor. I use the Nextcloud Android client to sync my notes folder. On desktop I use any text editor that has markdown syntax highlighting and/or Nextcloud Notes app on the web.
I’ve been using Joplin for years. I self host Joplin server for sync as well. Join does support offline use. Each device has a local copy of the notes and if you’re offline you can use the app to access and edit existing notes as well as creating new ones. When you regain a connection the sync will automatically update the notes and those updates will proliferate to any other devices with Joplin
