I use signal mesagaing app. They have a note to self feature thats awesome.
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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Not sure how I never found out about this feature before but this is awesome, thanks for sharing it!
Obsidian
- text files stored in markdown on your device
- no premium service to unlock features. You can buy sync and publishing if you want to, but there are no nags to purchase them.
- you can roll your own sync solution you wanted to. Its just text files. Same goes with publishing.
- community plugins if you want to extend it
- desktop clients and ios clients
- free forever
There is Google Keep.
But if you want to degoogle, well I'm reading the thread. I've heard of Joplin (spelling?).
I like quillpad from f-droid as my Google keep alternative. Pretty identical to keep aside from the online syncing.
I see quillpad has Nextcloud syncing. This is a good start. And I think it's possible to sync using Syncthing too.
I really need to go and get syncthing setup. Been meaning to in order to sync Steam Deck saves to my PC.
Not an app, and I haven't really used it, but tinylist feels quite Google Keepy. You can add it to your home screen, but it doesn't seem to work offline.
I've been using Notally for a while and I think it checks all your boxes.
Very much agreed.
Quillnote + Signal's "note to self"
You can find Quillnote in both Droid and Google's Play Store.
.txt file + syncthing
For true rebels: pen and paper
Obsidian is kewl cloud sync aint free though.
If you don't mind self hosting, there is a community plugin for live sync backed to CouchDB.
I just save my obsidian workspace in Dropbox/google drive/etc and that does the job for me
Markor. It's as simple as it gets, but can scale up if you decide to later
I use OneNote usually, easy formating and works well on PC and mobile. Notion is cool too, but has a lot more features than a simple note taking app.
Apps:
- Zettel notes https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.eu.thedoc.zettelnotes
- Markor https://www.f-droid.org/packages/net.gsantner.markor/
Self-hosted:
Kvaesitso launcher also has built in note widget that can be linked to same local file as in an app. https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso
ColorNote
It meets every item on your list.
Element for Matrix. I know weird, but that's how I like it
Do you send messages to yourself? Is this a thing you can do? I never tried. That would be pretty cool. edit: um... yeah. create an empty room with just yourself in it. Now I feel silly.
Something like that. I created a new space with just me, with encrypted rooms for each topic. Random Thoughts, Books, Movies I Like, etc
I think you've inspired me. I'm gonna try this.
I used to do this a long time ago when I was still on Facebook. I'd write notes with visibility set to myself only.
Google keep works fine for me.
Obsidian.md. It runs on markdown files, so even if you decide you don't like Obsidian, you've still got all the files. It's super easy to sync with SyncThing or probably Google Drive or whatever. It's free, and the are a ton of plugins for it. Peri sure there's a Lemmy community for it around, too.
Quillpad is like an open source Google Keep and you can use Nextcloud to sync it all.
Ideally, I'd want a way to import my Google Keep lists into it then I could bin Keep for good.
Do I need Nextcloud to synchronize? I like the interface but I don't really want to use Nextcloud.
At the moment, it is Nextcloud but I believe the plan is to give more options.
Yeah quillpad is great!
According to this article, and others I've seen pen and paper is still best.
Notion has been pretty great so far; I recently moved there from Evernote. Only downside (for me) is that it's based on electron.
Great, now how about a sketching app that follows all the same criteria that OP mentioned. Something for quick and dirty sketches. Nothing fancy. One that can do sketches and notes would be even better.
Markor.
Then I also add my notes / docs folder to syncthing, and have it on every device.
ColourNote has been the best one I've found.
https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.notes.pro/
This and others by simple are exactly that.
Notes. Gallery.Dialer. keyboard. Clock.
No ads. Absolutely zero unnecessary permissions. No telemetry or sneaky internet connections.
I found Obsidian good, and Markor the best, on Android.
Obsidian.... forever
I'm a big fan of a small app called UpNote. It's clean and simple with a few power features you can use if you really dig into it. It largely has the same baseline set of features as Obsidian, but it supports syncing across devices out of the box and has a one-time purchase of a lifetime membership.
It has a very optional but stupidly expensive subsctiption but even after long searching Standard Notes remains the best one I ever used!