This thread is ONLY to talk about Keyboards, Notes, Maps and Music Players. I add video Music Players because probably some people want to know about good FOSS alternatives.
Little context
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Why not build a megathread with the best and most reliable FOSS apps too help someone who want to join on the bright side of open source?
We (because this is not from me, this is from us) need to share thoughts, ideas and all things you want to say. Dont be shy. Upvote the comments you like and agree; disagree and tell why you disagree. This is will be different from others threads because this need a proper user opinion, and your opinions will be VERY important to build this. In short, your opinions and thoughts will be the fundamental source to build this.
I will read ALL comments to build this. Even if this has a million comments, I’m going to waste time reading it. Whatever it takes.
Your opinions about it are CRUCIAL and FUNDAMENTAL, because your opinions is the main-base to build the megathread.
Please, consider share your ideas and thoughts about apps on previous threads. Your opinions are really important to build final megathread. You can upvote or downvote posts so that comments gain strength and agreement between the community.
I’m extremely picky about Notes apps. I’ve tested so many Open source as well as closed source apps. I’ll be interested in what others are using, but the features I want are:
- Cross platform (Android, Linux, and MacOS)
- Universal format - markdown is a bonus
- Good task handling with checklist support
So what I’ve settled with is Obsidian (not open source) due to its simplicity of reading and writing to a folder hierarchy of plain text files. But since it sucks at task and checklists, I’ve been using Quillpad. It only syncs with Nextcloud at the moment, but there is promise of plain text file and bring-your-own-sync-solution on the roadmap.
Notesnook is a nice app, but since it’s all E2EE, there is no plain text without exporting your notes manually. Shame too because it handles tasks and checklists very nicely.
Honorable mention: Acreom it’s not open source yet, but that is on the roadmap. It is local first and plain text files on desktop OSes…but not on Android, meaning of you want to sync between your desktop and mobile you have to use their cloud. And I don’t want to do that.
Joplin gets mentioned constantly. But it adds weird metadata to every text file and changes the titles of the files to some garbled hexadecimal string, which makes it impossible to know what you’re looking at at the file level. And the task management/checklists is awful. Android app is bad too. I’m sure I’ll get hate for hating on the FOSS golden child, but that’s ok. This is simply my opinion. Like I said I’m very picky.
I haven’t used it, but I’ve heard logseq is pretty much FOSS obsidian.
It is very close. But it has more of a day view/outline focused approach which clashes with the way my brain wants to work. And seemingly, you can’t change that in the settings or with plugins.
thoughts on markor? also, what do you mean acreom plans open source? what license?
I keep trying Markor. UI is rough though. And not a fan of the checklist and task management within the app. I do like that it’s just simple text files for sure. But not a very elegant solution.
Not sure what license Acreom is going to open source if under. But it’s on their Roadmap
Hopefully I’m not too late. This is the first of your posts that I see.
It is always a great idea to list awesome opensource apps. And most importantly keep the list up to date.
This should not be a one person task and keeping a megathread up to date and readable isn’t that great.
There are “awesome lists”. Anyone can create an awesome list. It is a curated list of apps or services, often maintained on github for easier collaboration.
Following are two of those
https://github.com/binaryshrey/Awesome-Android-Open-Source-Projects
https://github.com/LinuxCafeFederation/awesome-android
Privacyguides should always get a mention when talking about recommendations since they curate their list and state why they choose this or that app and service. Its primary target is privacy but opensource is important for that as well https://www.privacyguides.org/
In short, if you are serious about it, create a repo somewhere and begin writing and listing. Or, contribute to other lists.
I build this to see opinions from all Lemmys who want contribute. My goal is catch all opinions from these threads and built a reliable megathread with Lemmys opinions. Something like on final, to people see on overall, what we think as a community about the best FOSS apps.
I know are a lot of lists on the internet with good apps ideas, but im more focus with all Lemmys opinions, the opinions off user-use. This is my main goal. Built something reliable from Lemmy communities.
EDIT: I appreciate if you want contribute with your apps you are using and you like it, on respectively threads (:
EDIT 2: I want to keep the megathread update. I see your comment has been upvote and sometimes I think if this is a relly be a good idea (?) tbh. I want will update megathread atleast 3 times per year when it is final, and discussing with people some aspects to update or change.
Keyboard: OpenBoard
Notes: Quillpad
Music: Symphony
Maps: OsmAnd~
Orgzly is a great notes app. Zero complaints.
I love Retro Music Player, it’s almost perfect.
Auxio is excellent and use Material design.
Notes: Joplin
Maps: OSMand, Organic Maps, StreetComplete, Vespucci, EveryDoor
Music: VLC
I’ve enjoyed anysoft and floris keyboards but I want something open source with gif support. Might go back to swiftkey just because of it.
OINotepad lost the ability to export notes to a file.
What is another notes app that is single press to start a new note, after app opening. Has no-nag auto-save if app is closed halfway through writing a note. Can auto title the note with the first line of the note. Can export all notes to a clear-readable file. Has search within a single note. And can sort by most recently modified.
Prefer on fdroid, but open to any FLOSS solution(on obtanium etc.)
OINotepad covered all this. Standard notes comes close but I can’t search within an individual note.
Please help. (c:
It has a premium tier with some features locked behind that, so try the freebie first to see if it’s what you want. But I think if covers all those bases. It’s other selling point is encryption, security, and privacy. So by default it’ll prompt for biometrics or password to open the app. You can turn off a bunch of that if it ends up being too much friction for the quick note taking you’re insinuating.
Hey! Thanks for the suggestion. That one is not in the 15 I have tried, I’ll check it out.
UPDATE: So I tried a whole bunch more note apps, and settled on
It covers all the functionality I need, and is powerful with plenty of features if required.
Thanks for the other suggestion too.
Keyboard: FlorisBoard
Music Player: InnerTune
Is there a way to get autocorrect on Florisboard?
Waiting. They’re programming the thing.
oh? I can wait, that’s not an issue. I didn’t find any forum threads that indicated that was in the works.
In the roadmap at the end of 0.4 https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/blob/master/ROADMAP.md
I like FlorisBoard, but for some reason I cannot make the chinese input to work. Typing in 拼音 just doesn’t give any results. Maybe I’m just setting it up wrong tho
For notes I really like Quillnotes.
get quillpad, and then use obtainium
I quite like unexpected keyboard and I don’t do much note-taking but when I do I just type it in acode and a save it as a .md.
noteless . esp for collecting links/bookmarks
What’s the best alternative to Gboard?
I’ve gotten use to swiping to type, and the English (Australia) (PC) QWERTY layout with the number row at the top, and hold-press numbers are the equivalent QWERTY keyboard symbols.
Am finding it hard to replace.
