Why do you have to host Obsidian at all? I run it on my phone and the .md files sync to my server, then they sync to my laptop and I open them in Obsidian there.
That’s what I mean. You pick where you put your data. Or you can use obsidian’s cloud service. You aren’t locked into their cloud like with Evernote for example.
I use Joplin too for years, syncing however always felt quite slugish. And that besides the fact it does so over the network because I am using my self-hosted Nextcloud server as the syncing method. How has been your experience?
I use Syncthing, so more-or-less the same as your Nextcloud setup, and have no complaints about speed. In what way is syncing sluggish? That Joplin takes too long while reading your local filesystem? Like this should have taken less than ten seconds?
Exactly, it takes several seconds, and sometimes I close the app on my phone without realising it hasn't synced yet and then when I go to my desktop it's not there.
Because of this I find myself opting for the "Note to Self" feature on Signal more and more when I am on my phone. It is super basic, but when I put something there it appears instantly on all my other devices.
As someone who has used both Evernote and Standard Notes, I can say that the latter is obviously better for privacy but for those who are really looking for a FOSS option and want something more powerful than a simple notes store (albeit with a bit of a learning curve) you should definitely check out Logseq.
Notesnook seems to have a free tier that meets all the requirements to replace (eg.) Google Keep. I would love to support them when I have a more stable income
Pearl
in reply to xabd • • •Standard Notes is also an option
And Obsidian in a veracrypt or Cryptomator vault works too.
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in reply to SatyrSack • • •Exactly, it takes several seconds, and sometimes I close the app on my phone without realising it hasn't synced yet and then when I go to my desktop it's not there.
Because of this I find myself opting for the "Note to Self" feature on Signal more and more when I am on my phone. It is super basic, but when I put something there it appears instantly on all my other devices.
Pearl
in reply to ObsidianZed • • •It’s a sufficiently okay compromise that everything is in markdown. Like I can view everything on notepad if obsidian suddenly vanished.
They get to make money only on how to organize the markdown data that is still human legible without them.
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in reply to xabd • • •I would love to support them when I have a more stable income