Father_Redbeard @ Father_Redbeard @lemmy.ml

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Yep, those are features I wouldn't use. Sounds like the ideal situation, thanks for sharing!

I like this one too but haven't fully committed yet. I think once they open self hosting up I'll give it an honest try .

That's and the awful android app is what made me give up on Joplin.

Ooh, I like the look of that. I've been using Iotas on Linux for my Nextcloud synced notes, Quillpad on Android, and Nextcloud Notebook on MacOS. I'll have to check this out!

What do you use it for? If you don't mind me asking. I tried a few times to like it before I started my selfhost/open source journey earlier this year and couldn't click with it. But curious what it does that you haven't found an alternative for.

I loved how easy it is to setup. Just was too minimal for my purpose though.

Yep, same. Though if Acreom ever goes local only on mobile OR when Notesnook opens up self hosting, I will take another look.

Following this because Nova is the only way of doing it that I've found. I even paid for Hermit premium and instead of a FF badge it's Hermit icon.

And they just added Omnivore integration, which I'm so excited for.

Notesnook? though I'm not sure about the collaborative features. You can password or fingerprint secure notes though. There is a free and paid tier so you'd have to test to see if the free tier does what you want. I'm on their paid plan due to a sale ($25/yr), so can't remember which features are behind the paywall or not.

Yes. I just switched full time to Pop and I love it.

It feels like they're literally only there as a front for micro transactions, so I don't bother. I did try a few of the Netflix games since those are ad free, but still... Nothing seems to hold my interest.

Projects like Runtipi have potential for the masses, imo. Single click deployment of apps on your own server....if you can get Runtipi installed first, of course. But hey, a step closer I suppose.

I'm very new to selfhosting, only started in earnest in April of this year. So I definitely felt the hosts frustrations in deploying (or trying to deploy) solutions I wanted to take back from Google and Microsoft. I'm still learning and am almost to the point where I'm comfortable pulling the plug on Google photos entirely. But it's a lot of research for newbs.

For those but happy with the $50/yr tier, I received a discount offer at the end of my premium trial. Ended up being $25 and I think it's certainly worth that. That said, I'll self host it as soon as it's available.

Acreom is another in this segment of app that is very promising. It is not open source yet, but will be. And I do prefer the plain markdown file format of it and the likes of Obsidian compared to NN, but still a cool app.

Have you tried NextcloudPi? It's a special build for SBCs and seems to work much better than my current server (HP Microserver Gen 8) for NC anyway. I am using a pi4 though, so ymmv on a 3b

I assumed you were asking what was wrong with the Joplin app, since that is what I was referring to in my post about awful android app. I use and love Obsidian on Linux, MacOS, and Android (tablet and phone). The only thing I don't like about it along the lines of my original reply to you is that task lists and to-dos aren't very easy or intuitive from Android. It's doable, but kinda clunky. So for that type of scenario I'm using Quillpad.

But no, Obsidian app on Android is great. Joplin....nope. :)

I use checklists/task lists a lot. The way the app handles those are completely backwards. Checkbox is auto put in the title of the list but when you tap in the body of the list, it doesn't. And the rendered view of your Todo list is very small with no way to change the font size. You can change the editor font size, but not on the rendered output.

I also don't like to be required to put a title in at the start of any document. Other apps either name it 'untitled' or date/time it was created. This causes friction and if I can't get my thought down quick, I may lose it.

That plus the whole markdown in a db file killed it for me.

You might look at these relative newcomers to this category of app...with some caveats for why I haven't switched from Obsidian.

1. Acreom - Not open source yet, but planned. Flat markdown files like Obsidian and Logseq. Dealbreaker for me is that in order to use the app on Android, you have to sign in with Google, Apple, or Github and use their cloud for sync. I'm trying to convince the dev to allow their "local first" mantra to permeate all versions of the app regardless of platform. He is very receptive, so we'll see. If they do, I can see myself switching to Acreom instead of continuing with Obsidian. But that's the beauty of open file format, you can pack up and leave very easily!
2. Notesnook - Is FOSS. But not self-hostable yet. That is on their roadmap. Potential dealbreaker is that it doesn't support markdown, rather shortcuts that behave similar to markdown syntax. As a result of that and their E2EE, the file format is not as open as Obsidian and others that use simple .md files.

...in a database file. That and the awful android app had me look elsewhere. Too bad really, FOSS and self host options with it are great.

I found this option:

Is that what you're referring to?