There are tons of Notes app available in the playstore and f-droid. I have use my fair share of them these are my best 5 recommendations. All of these are free to use and have to pay extra if you want specific features.
- All in one - Wenote - This is the most powerful note app I have used. This has memo, voice record, calendar, sync, color coding, various fonts, categories etc. Some of these features are behind a paywall. But It is a one time payment. It looks minimal and is light weight.
- All in one but foss - Joplin - This is an open-source project. Available on almost all platforms. If you want a powerful cross-platform note taking application then this is the best bet. This is Completely free but has an option of premium sync option. You can use free sync service to nextcloud and webdav.
- Security - Standard Notes - This is a note taking application that focuses on security. This is an open-source private notes app meaning your notes are end-to-end encrypted, so only you can read your notes. It has a minimal and clean UI. It has dedicated apps for most platforms and syncs your notes securely across all your devices, including your Android devices, Windows, iOS, Linux, and Web.
- Modern - Bundled Notes - This is the most modern looking Notes app on my list. It is aesthetically pleasing and intuitive. A powerful notes, lists, reminders and to-do app. Easily organise notes, lists, photos, files, and more. A google keep alternative.
- For casual use - Notally - A lightweight note taking application. A simple and elegant open source notes app. Notally is a minimalistic note taking app with a beautiful material design and powerful features. Dark mode, Completely free, Adjustable text size, Auto save and backup, No permissions required.
P.S: Obsidian is also a great Note taking tool.
“[…] store your interests, questions, ideas, favorite quotes, reminders, reading and meeting notes easily and future-proof”
And then you have people who use Obsidian
And add Syncthing to sync your obsidian vault with all of your devices and you have the perfect solution
Does this avoid paying for their sync services? I’d love synced notes but to be honest, I wouldn’t use the feature enough to pay for it
Yes.
You can sync your markdown with any sync solution. So yes. Super useful.
And still unable to just store it on some personal cloud space like Gdrive, mega and OneDrive :|
I want my goddamn stuff there instead of local storage.If you can map those drives to your PC and phone you could do that.
Mapping/Mounting is what’s difficult. The default Google files explorer has not a way of mounting my OneDrive account. Not even GDrive is able to as far as I am aware. And I have a Pixel to boot. Seems really trivial if even Apple just seems to mount the iCloud to the file manager natively.
And this option (Google Files) only links to the appropiate app. Even GDrive is just linked there -_-…
Obsidian is really great but I can’t recommend Standard Notes enough; it is my Google Keep replacement and has served me well.
Obsidian and joplin are really similar.
I just use Another Notes
Simple and does everything I need.
I’ve been using Anytype for the past 6 months, and love the direction its going.
It doesn’t have the flexibility of plugins that Obsidian has, but it’s open source, so hopefully some day it will mature in that direction.
It also offers the option of 1GB cloud storage for free, which is plenty for text.
Notesnook is pretty good too.
It has great UI.
I have tried markor. But didn’t like to UI.
How is Notesnook not in there, FOSS, E2EE and zero knowledge, unlike Standard notes it’s not totally crippled unless you pay a completely overpriced amount to buy. I’m all for laying for great apps, but Standards pricing is a complete spit in the face for a notes app.
I use Simple Text Editor
Minimal.
Upnote is a masterpiece
I love upnote, but wish they didn’t change the icon.
I have a lot of notes on Google keep, how would I copy my notes over if I wanted to switch to one of these apps?
Maybe find a way to export and import in csv format. Might be quicker to just copy paste manually unless you have 100s of them.
Assuming it’s not >hundreds of notes but <100 I would argue to do it manually.
Yes it’s annoying but the upside of it is, that you could comb through old notes and bin old ideas, knowledge etc. Helps to keep it fresh.
I like Notesnook a lot
I’m using Notesnook. One thing that’s really annoying is the checklist feature. It’s so difficult to check off an item instead of hitting the text box. And changing it to read-only also disables the check boxes from being able to be changed.
Could you explain that one? I just tap the box and it checks. Never had any type of issue there.
And changing it to read-only also disables the check boxes from being able to be changed.
Being read only by definition would prevent you from changing anything.
One thing that seems convoluted as hell toe is adding the separators to lists, which I like but to this day have to fuck around in the options to get one on there everytime, but still seems to be the best one I’ve found.
