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I look at these apps occasionally, and I've even tried a few of them. In the end, I find them to just be overkill. Give me a simple text editor, and I put the t

I look at these apps occasionally, and I've even tried a few of them. In the end, I find them to just be overkill. Give me a simple text editor, and I put the text files where the information belongs. Using fancy apps, where you can do formatting, place links, etc? I spend too much time futzing with all that stuff and less time actually getting stuff done.

Aicy 3y ago
I spent lots of time with notion and obsidian and this is what I came to as well. What I do now is have markdown files, and use the OS folder system for organising. I then use OneDrive for syncing - this works perfectly fine between MacOS and Windows, and for both I use Visual Studio Code for editing. For android I use an app called FolderSync to sync and TMarkor for editing. Has been working perfectly for over a year now.
- mejutoco 3y ago
  Obsidian also uses markdown files, so you could have stayed with it and backup the folders normally, if you do not want to pay for the syncing.
  - Aicy 3y ago
    I don't like how anti folders Obsidian is, the whole tagging way of organising is foreign to me.
- stack_underflow 3y ago
  Just curious, any reason you're using TMarkor instead of Markor? (https://github.com/gsantner/markor/ https://github.com/gsantner/markor/ , https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.gsantner.markor https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.gsantner.m...) Only asking since this was also the editor I ended up settling on in Android, but it seems like TMarkor is just a repackaging of Markor without any references to its forked(?) source. My requirement was that the editor had to be open source so that I could audit the repo and compile the APK from source, as well as potentially fork it for personal modifications if needed.
  - Aicy 3y ago
    I didn't really think about it much, I just searched for markdown editor on the play store and used the first one that worked.

Aicy 3y ago

I spent lots of time with notion and obsidian and this is what I came to as well. What I do now is have markdown files, and use the OS folder system for organising. I then use OneDrive for syncing - this works perfectly fine between MacOS and Windows, and for both I use Visual Studio Code for editing. For android I use an app called FolderSync to sync and TMarkor for editing. Has been working perfectly for over a year now.

mejutoco 3y ago
Obsidian also uses markdown files, so you could have stayed with it and backup the folders normally, if you do not want to pay for the syncing.
- Aicy 3y ago
  I don't like how anti folders Obsidian is, the whole tagging way of organising is foreign to me.
stack_underflow 3y ago
Just curious, any reason you're using TMarkor instead of Markor? (https://github.com/gsantner/markor/ https://github.com/gsantner/markor/ , https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.gsantner.markor https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.gsantner.m...) Only asking since this was also the editor I ended up settling on in Android, but it seems like TMarkor is just a repackaging of Markor without any references to its forked(?) source. My requirement was that the editor had to be open source so that I could audit the repo and compile the APK from source, as well as potentially fork it for personal modifications if needed.
- Aicy 3y ago
  I didn't really think about it much, I just searched for markdown editor on the play store and used the first one that worked.