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Selfhosted alternative to google keep/onenote/evernote/goodnotes? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm completely new to selfhosting but see a lot of potential. I wonder if anyone knows a good way to self host a notetaking app? The point is that I need to access my notes on multiple devices so self hosting them could be a nice idea. I currently use google keep and goodnotes but would like to leave those behind...

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I've used Joplin before which was okay-ish (but borked the e2e encryption during an update).

Now I would recommend Silverbullet if you are really keen on self hosting a notes app.

But the notes that work best for me is simply Obsidian + Syncthing-Fork (you could self host a syncthing server), thanks to its sheer ability to adapt to nearly any use case thanks to its plugin.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If you go this route, OP, and have an Android phone, then you should know the (very sad and disappointing) news that SyncThing for Android is about to be shut down.

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

But Syncthing Fork is not shut down and is still maintained (never used the main version tbh).

https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android-fdroid

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Oooohh. TIL. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What was wrong with Joplin? I was thinking about giving it a try.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Not the OP, but I believe they're talking about the upgrade from 128 bit AES to 256 bit AES. It created some compatibility issues between clients for a few days as the ones that weren't updated yet couldn't decrypt the newer 256 AES encrypted notes. That was my experience anyways. It's a great app/server from my personal experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I also tried Joplin and while it's great while using it, there's no background sync and never will be. That's a huge pain when you're mobile and need to get at your notes but have little or no signal.