i want to move away from using discord as a place to store and organise all kinds of links, text and images. its just come to me how easily i could lose access to it, not just by being offline.
ideally, said program has to:
-work offline
-have android and pc support, especially linux.
-have ability to export data into easily viewable formats
if something satisfies most but not all requirements, please still write about it, it can still be useful.
I think joplin fits the requirements. You can run your own server (or use theirs) to sync between devices.
I also think simplenote meets the requirements.
joplin sounds awesome, will def take a look
I am selfhosting a server and it works flawlessly!
I’ve been selfhosting a server as well for well over a year now. A $5/month vps and $2/year domain power that and Baikal for all my calendars!
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this is an amazing obsidian alternative that I haven’t seen recommended yet! I always here about logseq but I don’t like it due to it’s bullet format. And this is just great. I wish they had an electron install option tho, but still pretty great.
Very surprised it won’t work in Safari.
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It gave me some issue about indexdb not available. Maybe it was a flag I turned off thinking I was making my phone more secure. Probably something I did.
I’ve never seen this before but it looks excellent! I’ll have to spin an instance up to tinker with this weekend!
I’m honestly pretty hopeless when it comes to self hosting
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Joplin is also an alternative with desktop and mobile clients.
I use syncthing + Joplin for this. I haven’t looked into exporting data but I’d be surprised if it couldn’t. Otherwise it checks your boxes. Joplin also supports encryption, which wasn’t on your list but is a great feature.
Joplin supports a handful of sync methods but using a file based sync with syncthing is nice because it’s less effort and maintenance to run than self hosting nextcloud, for example. And since it’s purpose is to sync as opposed to remote access, you still have access to a copy your data even if you can’t reach any of your syncthing nodes for whatever reason. Though to be fair you can do that with nextcloud as well.
Maybe obsidian? It’s not open source, unfortunately, but
- works offline
- has android and linux clients
- the files are markdown, so you don’t even need to export these
- the clients render the files so it can look better than plain txt files
Also wish it was open source, but I do trust it. I tend to run Wireshark initially on all new closed source apps I install and obsidian feels truly trustworthy from my perspective. And the power behind it, while keeping the files super simple, is amazing… Combine it with syncthing and it’s a win!
And for cloud I use RCX
not being open source is a bit of a bummer but i’ll have a look
I, too, was initially bummed about Obsidian not being open source, but the offline mode and the stylish markdown rendering eventually sold me.
Plus, I set up SyncThing to sync my notes between my phone, server, and laptop. Now I have all my notes backed up and accessible on all my devices, without anything leaking to a 3rd party.
There is an open source chinese competitor, which seems quite good, but I always forget the name.
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I use Nextcloud. It’s like google drive or one drive.
I just drop things in Bitwarden notes. Joplin is open and supports a lot of different storage backends + encryption.
You could simply store it on a NAS.
Since someone brought up Obsidian
You want Joplin. It’s a markdown-based note-taking app, so it uses the same formatting as Discord. It’s locally installed so it works offline. It has a mobile version for iOS and android, but also has windows and linux apps. You can have multiple notebooks and multiple pages per notebook, so organization is easy as pie.
Did I mention that it uses markdown, so it exports into multiple common formats; that I’m aware of: JEX (their own) which is just a TAR of the text files and some other metadata, RAW which is the untarred version, HTML, and PDF. It also embeds images, audio, video and PDFs.
It’s also FOSS, and written in javascript using Electron, so it’s more-or-less easy to rewrite any part of it to suit your needs. It is also easy to work with plugins if need be, either from the community or writing your own.
It syncs across clients using some common cloud data stores: Dropbox, onedrive, NextCloud, WebDAV, s3, and their own self-hosted Joplin Server to name the ones I know. Make sure to encrypt. The local files (resources) that are linked in the notes sync across devices too. Web resources stay as links.
It also has a bajillion other features, but I’ll spare you.
No, I’m not getting paid for this comment (Joplin Team, hmu), I just really like this app.
Beeper actually had a ‘self message’ section just for notes like this. Idk if it works offline, but it supports linux and android (and most other major os’)
For your links (I believe it works with files too), check out Heimdall. It’s not offline, but it’s FOSS and selfhosted.
I’ve been using NotesNook.
I love Notesnook. You can’t save images (or any type of file) without their premium subscription. It’s well worth it tho.
If you don’t need to access them again, there’s always /dev/null.
