Notesnook has been down for about a day, consistent crashes despite deleting it and reinstalling. I don’t seem to be the only one as evidenced by the users voicing this concern on their Github page.
So, while imagining Notesnook will never get back up, what would be some alternatives to it? I’ve tried out Joplin, Quillpad, and Notally in the past, but none really stuck with me. I don’t use Nextcloud either. From what I’ve heard, many seem happy with Standard Notes and Markor. Anything y’all can vouch for?
Looking for an alternative that gets as close to Notesnook as possible, without a subscription model.
Notesnook is working on making their sync server self-hostable so you might just want to self-host once that’s available. Otherwise if it’s just down short-term just a text editor and markdown? You can import markdown files to Notesnook once it’s back up for you.
Notesnook has been working fine for me, not sure why some users are having issues and some not.
If it’s only been a day, I might wait a bit longer before writing it off. The issue could very well be resolved soon. Even the big tech companies have a service go through problems for a day or two.
I only tested Notesnook for a few days, so I may not remember it’s key elements well, but Standard Notes seemed like a very similar product (the downside is the subscription, it was basically unusable to me without paying).
The NotesNook UI is the best I’ve seen, it’s hard to find that level of polish in a FOSS android app.
I think you’ll struggle to find what you’re looking for without a subscription model unfortunately. If you do want to retry Joplin that is my recommendation, I run it with a locally hosted Joplin sync server, it’s fantastic for my use case. It’s been recieving a lot of solid updates lately too.
as if on queue, I just released a new version of my own note taking app https://p.programming.dev/post/programming.dev/18265389
Its local so it’s as good as your HDD/SDD, its encrypted so no one can know the content beside yourself, and you can sync it however you want (its 1 file only).
That looks really good! Can you specify what you mean by 1 file only? And do you think this will be available on Android? Great job on the project, would love to support it!
Thank you! By 1 file means the entire document (filled with your notes) is contained within 1 file. It’s a .note file, custom-made, but based on sqlite file format. Currently I have no need to monetize the app (I want to keep it libre and free for this one), but you can contribute by filing bugs and fixing issues on the page https://codeberg.org/solver-orgz/treedome/issues
also there’s no plan to put this in android, yet. I still can’t imagine how it would end up.
Maybe you could sync the file with Syncthing or Nextcloud. And sqlite is the default android db type… I’m tempted to give it a shot, I just started looking for a solid self hosted note taking thing
Currently, using syncthing and occasionally pushing it to something like gdrive/mega/Dropbox is what I do
Would a note being written in Markdown then git into a private repo work? (Not necessarily GitHub) ?
You mention Quillpad, so I assume this is for Android. If so, I went through a similar search after dropping NextCloud. I ended up with GitJournal. The app is nice and has all the features I need. I have it backed with self-hosted Forgejo. If I need to make a note on a desk/laptop, I can clone the repo and use whatever text editor I like since it’s all just markdown. I even have vs code server set up for quick notes on the web
