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If anyone can help. I am looking for note taking application that can fulfill the following requirements: - Plain-as-in-Plain Text - meaning I don't have to ex

If anyone can help. I am looking for note taking application that can fulfill the following requirements: - Plain-as-in-Plain Text - meaning I don't have to export my notes as JSON or XML or something else. Each note is a single .md or .txt file. - Full-text search - No Markup Lock-in - Meaning, for example, that I can use any flavor of Markdown (in my case MultiMarkdown) that I'd like and export/preview/build the file elsewhere. - Preferably Mac native...or anything not Electron if necessary - Wikilinks, please The Archive fills these needs but after looking at their Roadmap, I've realized that I have no intentions of paying for an upgrade when V2 is released and I do not want to risk V1 slowly becoming a mess to operate somewhere down the line if I can find an alternative. The Archive is great because it's simple and it's core but can be extendable if necessary. Obsidian is nice...but has too much going on for my liking. Same with Org-Roam. I'm really considering Emacs w/ Zetteldeft.

awake 6y ago
I feel like this is widely desired and could be implemented as a language server and then used in the text editor of your choice.
- ibn_khaldun 6y ago
  If you may, please explain to me what a language server is and how to implement one.
totolouis 6y ago
What do you think about Zettlr? But I think it is an electron app...
- ibn_khaldun 6y ago
  Yes, Zettlr is an Electron application. There's room for compromise (as you see, I've tried Obsidian). Thank you for the suggestion.
X6S1x6Okd1st 6y ago
The joplin API works pretty well from my experience, although the note to note linkage is not great. The export of notes dumps as guid.md file name. I personally like it because it has the features I want, works well on mobile, local first backed up by sync (you provide the target) and the API isn't hard to use.
- ibn_khaldun 6y ago
  I was strongly considering Joplin the other day. I see it mentioned a lot at different sites. I respect how simple it is. The common trends seems to be based on stuffing as much features into an app to please the "Second brain" crowd, but I just want to take notes, I don't necessarily need all the graphs and glitter. Thank you.
  - X6S1x6Okd1st 6y ago
    It's under pretty heavy development and there is certainly some scope creep, but it's never impacted my core usage. At least for me right now full text search, no lock in, good phone support and sync that works is all I need to build a good note taking habit. IMO the value that you get from going from not taking notes to taking notes is much bigger than the value jump you get if you go from taking unstructured notes to structured notes .
mkj 6y ago
I think fsnotes might fit your criteria? Or perhaps even nvalt

awake 6y ago

I feel like this is widely desired and could be implemented as a language server and then used in the text editor of your choice.

ibn_khaldun 6y ago
If you may, please explain to me what a language server is and how to implement one.

totolouis 6y ago

What do you think about Zettlr? But I think it is an electron app...

ibn_khaldun 6y ago
Yes, Zettlr is an Electron application. There's room for compromise (as you see, I've tried Obsidian). Thank you for the suggestion.

X6S1x6Okd1st 6y ago

The joplin API works pretty well from my experience, although the note to note linkage is not great. The export of notes dumps as guid.md file name. I personally like it because it has the features I want, works well on mobile, local first backed up by sync (you provide the target) and the API isn't hard to use.

ibn_khaldun 6y ago
I was strongly considering Joplin the other day. I see it mentioned a lot at different sites. I respect how simple it is. The common trends seems to be based on stuffing as much features into an app to please the "Second brain" crowd, but I just want to take notes, I don't necessarily need all the graphs and glitter. Thank you.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y ago
  It's under pretty heavy development and there is certainly some scope creep, but it's never impacted my core usage. At least for me right now full text search, no lock in, good phone support and sync that works is all I need to build a good note taking habit. IMO the value that you get from going from not taking notes to taking notes is much bigger than the value jump you get if you go from taking unstructured notes to structured notes .

mkj 6y ago

I think fsnotes might fit your criteria? Or perhaps even nvalt