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I'd never heard of fsnot.es. It looks great. I bought Ulysses ages ago on Mac because I wanted a performant, native-app markdown app that supported external fol

by awill 5y ago

I'd never heard of fsnot.es. It looks great. I bought Ulysses ages ago on Mac because I wanted a performant, native-app markdown app that supported external folders. Unfortunately, shortly after purchasing it Ulysses went subscription only. I had no alternative, so I kept paying. However, I don't used any of the advanced features, and I'm really overpaying when I have no iPhone, don't use iCloud, and just do simple markdown. I'll check out fsnotes to see if it can replace Ulysses for me. I have considered switching from Android to iPhone, but I don't know how I'd do notes on it. For work I can't use iCloud. I can only use my company's backup solution. Then for my personal notes I have Android and Linux (desktop), so I can't use iCloud, so I use syncthing or Google Drive. If I went to iOS, I don't know how I'd get my personal notes on Linux syncing with iOS. All the native iOS apps only support iCloud.

crossroadsguy 5y ago
You won’t be able to. See if you’d like Joplin or Simplenote. I still use Simplenote. Because even though FSNotes seems promising, it’s still not there.
- awill 5y ago
  but both of them store notes in a proprietary way, so if they shut down (or I just wanted to move), wouldn't it be harder to migrate off?
  - crossroadsguy 5y ago
    I use nvAlt for Simplenote on Mac where I chose to keep the file in text format in a Dropbox folder and it also sync to Simplenote server which easily makes the data available to mobile app. So Simplenote server does the sync between apps and since I keep the data in Dropbox folder the data is synced/backed up (I separately backup that folder as well) there as well. (To be honest that works better for me than FSNotes' complicated way of doing this. I wish they had a way to do that in Mac app while still utilising invisible iCloud Sync; but without me having to specify a dozen places for storage, sync, external folder etc etc) Joplin is FOSS. Format is not proprietary and it is easily readable and they also do a raw export https://joplinapp.org/help/#exporting https://joplinapp.org/help/#exporting
    - awill 5y ago
      excellent. Thanks!

by awill 5y ago

crossroadsguy 5y ago

You won’t be able to. See if you’d like Joplin or Simplenote. I still use Simplenote. Because even though FSNotes seems promising, it’s still not there.

awill 5y ago
but both of them store notes in a proprietary way, so if they shut down (or I just wanted to move), wouldn't it be harder to migrate off?
- crossroadsguy 5y ago
  I use nvAlt for Simplenote on Mac where I chose to keep the file in text format in a Dropbox folder and it also sync to Simplenote server which easily makes the data available to mobile app. So Simplenote server does the sync between apps and since I keep the data in Dropbox folder the data is synced/backed up (I separately backup that folder as well) there as well. (To be honest that works better for me than FSNotes' complicated way of doing this. I wish they had a way to do that in Mac app while still utilising invisible iCloud Sync; but without me having to specify a dozen places for storage, sync, external folder etc etc) Joplin is FOSS. Format is not proprietary and it is easily readable and they also do a raw export https://joplinapp.org/help/#exporting https://joplinapp.org/help/#exporting
  - awill 5y ago
    excellent. Thanks!