To use the steroids analogy, if you're looking for a sober (minimalist) notes app, checkout Dynalist.io I have most of my life there (lists, plans, journaling, etc) I am not affiliated with Dynalist, just a very happy user
Great tool! However, there is a noticeable delay between keypresses and characters appearing on the edit area. Would be a killer app if they can improve the performance.
Tusk is open source; Dynalist isn't. I just don't get it why anyone would want a subscription to host their private notes online in a proprietary application. Have people forgotten about Microsoft's Word vendor lock-in already?
What you want for your notes is:
0) You need to decide what kind of functionality you need in a note management app which cannot be fullfilled with other alternatives such as a simple text editor (I use Sublime mainly for note taking, plus Google Keep for groceries).
1) An open data format so you are not locked in a platform. This allows you far less time if you want to swap service which decreases monopolistic behavior (vendor lock-in) and increases competition (yay capitalism).
2) You deciding the storage location (this then allows you to use Dropbox or Syncthing or Rsync or whatever cloud, but also allows you to use public-key cryptography such as e.g. Cryptomator). It also allows you to opt-out of the/a cloud.
The logical solution is to use an open source application. Though I'm not sure I'd want it to be a browser (saw NPM in the source tree). I'd say the logical place for this kind of data is near your agenda, like Nextcloud.
I stand corrected! I thought this was an alternative to Evernote; turns out its just an open source client. This isn't the droid you're looking for. But I'm not sure about the data format of the files. Is that documented?
Good criteria. I’ve been trying to migrate away from proprietary platforms, and so far I’ve settled on Sandstorm.io using Permanote for note-taking, although it’s pretty barebones. Does Nextcloud have a better notes app?
Any other recommendations for fully open source Notes solutions?
Well, the application is proprietary, but Dynalist lets you download all of your data anytime in txt or opml, so there's an easy escape hatch if one ever wanted to migrate, or at least stop using the app but retain one's data.
All of your criteria Dynalist meets, though 2 not so directly.
0. This is subjective, but Dyanlist meets this for me.
1. You can export your data from Dynalist as txt or opml
2. While your data isn't exclusively stored there, you can set a backup of your Dynalist data to Google Drive or Dropbox. This works for me.
I only scanned through the repo, but surprisingly few lines of code for a app of this size. Good work. Also, should you be using the Evernote logo in the app if it's unaffiliated?
It's an electron wrapper around the official Evernote web app, but with some color themes. Why do I want to use this instead of Evernote's high-performance native desktop client?
I have been using it from version v0.5.0, and I can say it is well maintained and user requests are heavily considered when it comes to its development, something not true on how Evernote reacts, when we ask for something. Plus, it is from the dog* who made signale, so it is going to stay of good quality.
* Apparently it's not actually that cute dog who made it.
> Why do I want to use this instead of Evernote's high-performance native desktop client?
I take on board your first sentence, but this second one is not my experience at all.
I actually use three Evernote native clients daily. The MacOS one is unpleasantly sluggish, the Android one is OK, and the iOS one is so horribly slow it's borderline unusable (for me).
Meh… I became so excited seeing the title, thinking it might be some (maybe even self-hosted?) alternative to Evernote. But turns out it's just some "alternative" desktop client for Evernote, not even sure why "on steroids". Well, maybe not today…
Not a Evernote user, but this looked interesting but for something like Evernote that I would want to have constantly open in the background, another Electron app is just too much of a battery hog.
Another alternative client someone recommended me a while ago is Alternote but never tried it ([0])
At the same time I'm not sure if it's a wise idea to rely on a third-party client for something essential to your workflow as it could get axed at any time. I personally am now with DEVONthink. It's not as sexy looking as this, but immensely powerful once you wrap your head around it
Alternote is a pretty good app. I tried it out before. It does use some decent CPU usage too though if I’m remembering right. Nothing close to what an Electron wrapper will give you, but also not what Devonthink will give you. I also have come around to using Devonthink (Mac only).
I saw the evernote logo in the screenshots and my first thought was "wow, that is a pretty flagrant violation." It wasn't until I read the comments here that I realized it is a wrapper around the official app.
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0) You need to decide what kind of functionality you need in a note management app which cannot be fullfilled with other alternatives such as a simple text editor (I use Sublime mainly for note taking, plus Google Keep for groceries).
1) An open data format so you are not locked in a platform. This allows you far less time if you want to swap service which decreases monopolistic behavior (vendor lock-in) and increases competition (yay capitalism).
2) You deciding the storage location (this then allows you to use Dropbox or Syncthing or Rsync or whatever cloud, but also allows you to use public-key cryptography such as e.g. Cryptomator). It also allows you to opt-out of the/a cloud.
The logical solution is to use an open source application. Though I'm not sure I'd want it to be a browser (saw NPM in the source tree). I'd say the logical place for this kind of data is near your agenda, like Nextcloud.
Any other recommendations for fully open source Notes solutions?
0. This is subjective, but Dyanlist meets this for me. 1. You can export your data from Dynalist as txt or opml 2. While your data isn't exclusively stored there, you can set a backup of your Dynalist data to Google Drive or Dropbox. This works for me.
I take on board your first sentence, but this second one is not my experience at all.
I actually use three Evernote native clients daily. The MacOS one is unpleasantly sluggish, the Android one is OK, and the iOS one is so horribly slow it's borderline unusable (for me).
Another alternative client someone recommended me a while ago is Alternote but never tried it ([0])
At the same time I'm not sure if it's a wise idea to rely on a third-party client for something essential to your workflow as it could get axed at any time. I personally am now with DEVONthink. It's not as sexy looking as this, but immensely powerful once you wrap your head around it
[0]: alternoteapp.com
[1]: https://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/overvi...