Hey, I’m looking for a note app to replace notion. The main features I’m looking for are the ability to have different notebooks (or folders), the ability to have notes available offline(something I recently realized notion does not do), the ability so search in notes for words or phrases, and preferably a sync feature to backup notes to a desktop or another device. If anyone has any reccomendations I’d love to hear they and give them a try. Thanks!
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I have used Nextcloud notes, Obsidean, Onenote, Logseq and Anytype. Anytype is my favorite so far. It’s open source, sync is E2E using IPFS, and Anytype also backs up your notes and 1GB of files on their infrastructure for free.
Anytype has no backlinks, and the UI is very mouse dependant. I’m hopeful anytype will add a bunch of much needed features eventually, but right now its a pretty constrained system.
I use obsidian on my phone, with the WebDAV sync plugin to my self hosted nextcloud and vim on any pc or laptop. I would recommend to back up all existing notes as markdown files, set up the obsidian vault (it’s just a folder) as you plan to use it, and then reintroduce all content from the pc. Otherwise, there might be strange conflicts with the sync plugin.
Hope that helps
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I can’t remember exactly, but I think the only problem was that you can’t (or at least I was not competent enough) add existing markdown files which are already in nextcloud to the sync process. So instead I added the empty named markdown files in obsidian, triggered the sync, and then populate each file on the desktop. And I was very picky about my folder/vault naming because of my desktop setup (and the rest of my cloud structure), but generally it is really easy to set up if you have tried it once on some dummy data so you don’t accidentally ruin something.
I do not use any"thing" apart from the aforementioned sync plugin (called ‘remotely save’), as I am very standards compliant with my stuff. But I think the editor is very extendable in comparison to other android options.
thanks for the recommendation, ive been playing around few of the option but this seems like the one that will work best for me. it was easy to set up on both my desktop and phone and seems to have all the functionality i need
I’m using Joplin and I’m quite happy with it :)
Seconded. Joplin is full featured, has sync and FOSS.
By far, Noto
I really like UpNote, pretty simple but it’s fast and has enough features to make it reasonably powerful (altho much less so than Notion)
I make good use of OneNote by Microsoft which syncs with the desktop version. I don’t think you need to be a M365 user to use any of the features.
Quillpad is nice. I’ve been using it for about a year now. It satisfies all the 4 requirements as well.
I love Noteless as my note taking app as it also supports markdown. Sync is via Syncthing.
Obsidian.md, but the sync feature is paid
Appflowy is a FOSS alternative to Notion if you want something closer to home
My favorite notes app has been UpNote. Has most of what you’re looking for. Folders (and subfolders), cross device syncing, cross-platform, offline access, and search. It’s also smoother than it’s closest comparison, Zoho Notes and OneNote, each of which had stutters and microlags when I used them, especially as you accumulate more notes. There’s also a lifetime purchase if you don’t like subscriptions.
