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I am back to Simplenote after trying too many alternatives. nvAlt on Mac and Simplenote app on iPhone. Bear would have been fine if it wasn’t subscription base

I am back to Simplenote after trying too many alternatives. nvAlt on Mac and Simplenote app on iPhone. Bear would have been fine if it wasn’t subscription based and allowed me to choose a sync option like dropbox or iCloud sync and let me have local files. FSNotes has years , at this speed, ahead of it. Everything else is just sad Electron - web apps masquerading as native apps. No I don’t like Joplin interface. Also, among Apple cloud offerings or iCloud suite Notes.app is the only one probably that doesn’t suck disgustingly. But then I don’t trust Apple to keep the sync working fine as they deprecate apps too soon on older OS versions.

japanuspus 5y ago
Think we are in the same boat, although I never really made it away from Simplenote. Currently not using the actual Simplenote app, instead it is Byword on iOS, nvpy on Linux, ResophNotes on Windows and nvAlt on OS X (and syncing via Dropbox). For many years I used a small app called "notesy" on iOS, but that disapeared completely at some point -- never found out who made it. Have been thinking about joplin, but I never even tried it since I have a lot of toolchain set up around scripted edits to files (e.g. my timesheet it built by scanning notes, and I clock in and out of projects with a small script triggered from Launchy).
ubermonkey 5y ago
I was a big fan of Notational Velo, and then nvAlt, and the discovery of Deft mode made my migration to emacs/org possible. I wouldn't worry about Apple deprecating Notes or its sync -- both have been part of the iOS ecosystem since day one, haven't they?
- crossroadsguy 5y ago
  I don’t remember the versions but at one point I wanted to stay back on an old OSX version and a newer iOS and the Mac was just a version behind. They made entire iCloud suite and related apps on the two incompatible. As for emacs/vim I have given up by now :) Not my cup of tea.

japanuspus 5y ago

Think we are in the same boat, although I never really made it away from Simplenote. Currently not using the actual Simplenote app, instead it is Byword on iOS, nvpy on Linux, ResophNotes on Windows and nvAlt on OS X (and syncing via Dropbox). For many years I used a small app called "notesy" on iOS, but that disapeared completely at some point -- never found out who made it. Have been thinking about joplin, but I never even tried it since I have a lot of toolchain set up around scripted edits to files (e.g. my timesheet it built by scanning notes, and I clock in and out of projects with a small script triggered from Launchy).

ubermonkey 5y ago

I was a big fan of Notational Velo, and then nvAlt, and the discovery of Deft mode made my migration to emacs/org possible. I wouldn't worry about Apple deprecating Notes or its sync -- both have been part of the iOS ecosystem since day one, haven't they?

crossroadsguy 5y ago
I don’t remember the versions but at one point I wanted to stay back on an old OSX version and a newer iOS and the Mac was just a version behind. They made entire iCloud suite and related apps on the two incompatible. As for emacs/vim I have given up by now :) Not my cup of tea.