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QOwnNotes
- saint11 3y agoReminds me of Standard Notes, which is great! Thanks for the link
- nilslindemann 3y agoInteresting. Added link to my TiddlyWiki.
- formerly_proven 3y agoThe whole Q naming scheme has aged rather poorly.
- rjknight 3y agoIt worked well for me - I was able to correctly infer a lot of information about the app from a single character, which was about as successful as a naming scheme could hope to be.
- aendruk 3y agoIt’s an initialism of Qt (“cute”), historically a toolkit by Quasar Technologies .
- lebean 3y agoWhy?
- smegsicle 3y ago[flagged]
- lebean 3y agoWhat?
- dang 3y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- pacifika 3y agoI’ve switched to AnyType.
- Nic0 3y agoAnytype is good, worth to check it!
- wrooty 3y agoObligatory link to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRpHIa-2XCE&pp=ygUJcW93bm5vdGVz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRpHIa-2XCE&pp=ygUJcW93bm5vd...
- preezer 3y agoI use joplin, but this looks nearly the same as joplin.
- ale42 3y agoI also use Joplin, but I find it a bit heavy on memory (the x^th Electron-based app I have loaded) and sometimes buggy on Markdown editing. I'll definitely try QOwnNotes to see how it is.
- Risse 3y agoI've been using it for around 6 months, maybe once a week. It's pretty awesome. Syncs all my notes to Nextcloud. I use the Nextcloud Notes app on my Android phone and it works perfectly together with this on the desktop. I wish it had support for simple file uploads, sometimes I want to attach spreadsheets or PDFs to my notes.
- Rygian 3y agoHow do you reconcile the lack of tag support in Nextcloud Notes?
- rubymamis 3y agoMy Noets app[1] editor is built on top of the Markdown syntax highlighter of QOwnNotes. My new app Plume[2] is built on top of Notes but features a completely revamped and advanced block editor with a new design. [1] https://www.get-notes.com/ https://www.get-notes.com/ [2] https://www.get-plume.com/ https://www.get-plume.com/
- ale42 3y agoNotes looks great, is Plume a native application too?
- rubymamis 3y agoThanks! It's a Qt app like Notes so native-like performance as well.
- airstrike 3y agoon get-plume.com I get "No video with supported format and MIME type found" using Firefox on Mac Os. it could be me, but just FYI :-)
- rubymamis 3y agoThanks, I'll look into that.
- rmrfchik 3y agoTried QOwnNotes for a long time with sync to home nextcloud. Tired of cluttered interface and switched to Obsidian.
- n3storm 3y agocheckout Iotas
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoThanks for this. It's linux-only, for anyone that cares.
- n3storm 3y agoThanks, I was on a rush, I should have mentioned it.
- airstrike 3y agoFWIW, I'm a huge fan of NotePlan for Mac OS and iOS
- leejoramo 3y agoI have used many plain text tools over the decades. In the past year, NotePlan has taken over everything that is not coding, or long form writing. It was easy to move my markdown notes into it. Plus NotePlan has replaced most of my calendar and task management apps. I use it on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Looking forward to the web based version that is progressing nicely. Syncing across platforms is a bit harder than I would like. Dropbox and GitHub syncing work, but it is best using iCloud. I use ChronoSync running on an always on Mac to sync to locations for Linux and Windows access.
- azaras 3y agoI use org-mode in emacs. It is good enough for me.
- jdksmdbtbdnmsm 3y ago>Installation You can install QOwnNotes on many operating systems or build it. If not stated otherwise you can run QOwnNotes afterward by executing QOwnNotes. Has no link to said installers. My patience is tested. No thanks.
- xwowsersx 3y agoFYI re the video: > Video can't be played because the file is corrupt.
- rane 3y agoWhat's with the markdown craze? I get the usefulness in software development – plain text matters for diffs, and everyone's got their favorite editor. But when it comes to note-taking apps, wouldn't a WYSIWYG approach, where markdown is kept out of sight, be more user-friendly? Take Obsidian, for example. It has this clunky live preview feature where the line you're working on keeps morphing into markdown. Super awkward.
- dr_kiszonka 3y agoI prefer Obsidian and Sublime Text for notetaking because they are much snappier than Word, plain text files are easier to recover if they get corrupted, and I don't like Office trying to get me to save to OneDrive. I also find them easier to customize. I do use Microsoft's OneNote and Word, just not for everyday notes.
- lainga 3y agoI like side-by-side. That was how TeXStudio worked (TeX on the left, rendered PDF on the right), and VSCode does the same thing with its Markdown previews
- clircle 3y agoI think it's because it's relatively simple to make an note taking app or system, and everyone has an opinion on how to take notes, so you end up with a proliferation of note apps, and a bunch of fake innovation. Also, software developers are naturally biased against Microsoft Office. For no good reason.
- JadeNB 3y ago> Also, software developers are naturally biased against Microsoft Office. For no good reason. I don't know any individual's reason for being biased for or against anything, but I think that, if the claim is that there is no good reason to be biased against Microsoft Office, then that's false. My personal gripe is that Office's approach is just fundamentally antithetical to the idea that I know what I want to do with my document better than Office itself does; it's always trying to guess and, for a recent infuriating example, getting a bulleted list to indent the way that I want it can be an epic battle.
- canistel 3y agoWe use QOwnNotes as the desktop complement of Markor. All notes are shared in a directory structure with mark down files - including recipes. Files are synced between devices using SyncThing. In Android devices, these are accessed using Markor, and in desktops, using QOwnNotes. I get to use Emacs Markdown mode too, as I please. QOwnNotes creates a notes.sqlite file in the uppermost directory, which can be added to .stignore.
- GeoAtreides 3y agothat's exactly my setup too -- works great!
- mid-kid 3y agoI've been looking into QOwnNotes as a "simpler" replacement for Zim[1]. Unfortunately, it isn't really trivial to convert a notebook that I've tended to for a decade, and from first impressions, it lacks the WYSIWYG aspect. [1]: https://zim-wiki.org/ https://zim-wiki.org/
- arcastroe 3y agoI've been using getoutline.com as my note-taking app. It's intended as a team knowledge base for documentation, but I find it works well even as a single user for notetaking. It's open-source, and self-hostable, and integrates with draw.io and mermaid graphs. And everything saves as markdown, so it has good portability.