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My setup is a little complex, but I'm very happy syncing plain-text notes between my Mac, several Linux machines, and my iPhone. I'm still using (and loving) N
by n8henrie 3y ago
My setup is a little complex, but I'm very happy syncing plain-text notes between my Mac, several Linux machines, and my iPhone.
I'm still using (and loving) Notational Velocity on my Mac. Thankfully it's open source, so I was able to hack together arm64 support even though I don't know C/ObjC/C++ [0].
On my iPhone, I've been very happy with 1Writer, which has a similar interface, and is scriptable with JavaScript for power users.
I have NV configured to store plain-text notes that are stored in 1Writer's iCloud folder, so syncing happens seamlessly between them.
Finally, I sync that same directory with Syncthing to my Linux machines, where I mostly use neovim for editing.
The only feature that I'm often wishing I had is shared editing with my wife. At some point I whipped up some launchd scripts to automatically move notes tagged with `#shared` to a shared subfolder, but it never worked very well. Thankfully my wife is not really all that interested in sharing notes, so we just use Apple Notes when needed.
Tried Obsidian but was miffed at the inability to recognize / store as .txt files instead of .md (or perhaps it was vice versa) without a community plugin, and I prefer FOSS, so uninstalled after a couple days.
Have LogSeq installed but can't convince myself to use it, what I have fits my needs well enough. I'm also concerned about their funding model and the longevity of the project, the other side of the coin of FOSS I suppose.
[0]: https://github.com/n8henrie/nv https://github.com/n8henrie/nv
[1]: https://apps.apple.com/app/id680469088 https://apps.apple.com/app/id680469088