Dang. Again? I know they have the disclaimer that it's not to be relied on for photo backup yet and thankfully I'm not, but it's so much better than any of it's peers that I'd love to ditch the other apps.
Whole house fan, and it's not even close. We've saved tons of money by not running the AC as much as a result. Plus it just feels nicer to have fresh cool air come in from outside. I've even used it in the winter after the whole family got over being sick. Crack a couple of windows, turn the fan on, and the entirety of the house has fresh air in minutes. That got cold pretty quick, but worth having some stale air purged.
Drill press I'm an amateur woodworker who is apparently incapable of drilling straight holes.
Blackstone griddle A gift from a loved one who passed before they got to see me use it, but a nice reminder regardless. Works great for meal prepping something like breakfast burritos!
I'll give it a go. The plain md files is exactly why I went with Obsidian in the first place. I just haven't found a FOSS alternative that I like as much. Closest is Acreom but it's not yet open source, on the roadmap though.
Obsidian is my favorite thus far. It sucks at checklists/Todo though. So I use Quillpad as a shopping list keeper and Tasks.org as my task management/Todo, both syncing to my self hosted Nextcloud instance.
I'm still on Obsidian Sync because I couldn't get Syncthing to work reliably, but that was very early in my selfhosting journey, so I will try again.
I do have some old components laying around I could mess around with to build soldering skills. It's all PC hardware though, so likely much smaller than the TV components. Though I do have an alarm clock from the 80s that barely works. That might be closer as far as size of components. Might have to crack that open.
Halls Of Torment. It's a simple game on the surface, but has some surprising depth I wasn't expecting that I like. Plus when you do a completely broken build and your frame rate drops because of all the damage your causing to the entire screen, it makes me laugh.
Plus killing the skeletons makes the most satisfying crunchy sound. Similar satisfaction to Vampire Survivors when you have enough garlic to "pop" enemies by walking into them.
Halls of Torment. I can't get enough. Like Vampire Survivors, but cooler and with a slap of Diablo 2 "paint". Best $5 I've spent since...well...Vampire Survivors.
It's not open source yet, but that is on their roadmap. Acreom behaves in a similar way to Obsidian in that it's text files on the local file system. But it actually handles check boxes much better than Obsidian.
That said, the Android app requires use of their cloud sync, which I'm not a fan of because like you I'd rather manage my own sync. I've encouraged the dev to consider it on Android but I seem to be the only one bringing it up at all.
Im not certain in regards to security in this context. But any new features in Quillpad you'd miss. If that's important to you. Otherwise, keep on using quillnote instead!
I keep trying Markor. UI is rough though. And not a fan of the checklist and task management within the app. I do like that it's just simple text files for sure. But not a very elegant solution.
Not sure what license Acreom is going to open source if under. But it's on their Roadmap
I do like Quillpad quite a bit. It's the best Google Keep replacement out there at the moment. I would rather it not be tied to Nextcloud, and supposedly that is eventually coming. But for now I'm using it daily alongside Obsidian.
It is very close. But it has more of a day view/outline focused approach which clashes with the way my brain wants to work. And seemingly, you can't change that in the settings or with plugins.
It has a premium tier with some features locked behind that, so try the freebie first to see if it's what you want. But I think if covers all those bases. It's other selling point is encryption, security, and privacy. So by default it'll prompt for biometrics or password to open the app. You can turn off a bunch of that if it ends up being too much friction for the quick note taking you're insinuating.
I'm extremely picky about Notes apps. I've tested so many Open source as well as closed source apps. I'll be interested in what others are using, but the features I want are:
Cross platform (Android, Linux, and MacOS)
Universal format - markdown is a bonus
Good task handling with checklist support
So what I've settled with is Obsidian (not open source) due to its simplicity of reading and writing to a folder hierarchy of plain text files. But since it sucks at task and checklists, I've been using Quillpad. It only syncs with Nextcloud at the moment, but there is promise of plain text file and bring-your-own-sync-solution on the roadmap.
Notesnook is a nice app, but since it's all E2EE, there is no plain text without exporting your notes manually. Shame too because it handles tasks and checklists very nicely.
Honorable mention: Acreom it's not open source yet, but that is on the roadmap. It is local first and plain text files on desktop OSes...but not on Android, meaning of you want to sync between your desktop and mobile you have to use their cloud. And I don't want to do that.
Joplin gets mentioned constantly. But it adds weird metadata to every text file and changes the titles of the files to some garbled hexadecimal string, which makes it impossible to know what you're looking at at the file level. And the task management/checklists is awful. Android app is bad too. I'm sure I'll get hate for hating on the FOSS golden child, but that's ok. This is simply my opinion. Like I said I'm very picky.
Not self hosted, but Tabby is the closest I've found. But I still don't like it as much as Termius. And from what other, more experienced people have said, Tabby is bloated, requiring way more system resources than a terminator emulator app should.
Also, I asked a related question here if you want to read some other suggestions.
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Dang. Again? I know they have the disclaimer that it's not to be relied on for photo backup yet and thankfully I'm not, but it's so much better than any of it's peers that I'd love to ditch the other apps.