I’ve no problem with using LibreOffice for most of my document needs, but i haven’t found a good substitute for microsoft’s OneNote yet. I mainly use it to plan my RPG games and it helps a lot. What alternatives are there for organizing notes on linux, with similar features to those that OneNote provides?
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On the windows side of things (at my job) i dumped onenote for cherry tree. Its on portable apps website.
Not sure for linux. I run linux at home but only need one note- like programs at work.
+1 for Cherrytree, I can even recommend it on Linux. The tree structure makes it so much better to sort things than OneNote with the limited depth.
I was asking a similar question a few months ago, and my search turned up Joplin. It’s a free, open source app that works across multiple platforms and can sync data through a cloud service, either through Joplin’s own cloud storage or through a third-party cloud storage like Dropbox.
Joplin also supports encryption straight out of the box, which is nice if one wants to host on a third party cloud. Native support for both Nextcloud (WebDAV) and Syncthing (Direct file sync) is nice if one wants to self-host.
Thanks! I’ll check it out.
I use and enjoy Joplin. It’s much less feature-rich than OneNote, but if you’re predominantly using it to make text-based notes it does that with aplomb. I enjoy the cloud syncing, which is very useful combined with the fact that there’s an Android app (so I can access my notes on the go).
Joplin self hosted on a NextCloud instance!
Only because self hosting is satisfying and fun. You can have your Joplin notes synced on OneDrive as well.
I’m not too familiar with OneNote but Joplin and Obsidian are usually the two go-to PKM’s on Linux.
I only really use the web version of it in Linux but I dumped OneNote for notion.
I have some scripts that use their API to send notes from the command line to a db page and some nvim mappings that I’m trying to get to send my buffers to a page but that part is problematic still.
I looked at obsidian but never really tried it out. I don’t like the limits notion has but it’s much faster for me to find my notes than OneNote. I have a metric fuckton of notes
Here’s an Obsidian RPG Video: https://youtube.com/search?q=obsidian+rpg
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/search?q=obsidian+rpg
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
+1 for Saber. Just found out about it from this comment and it’s exactly what I was looking for
Some which I can think out of my head are : Joplin Trillium Logseq Notion Obsidian Anytype
If you need to draw, I would look into notion and obsidian.
I want to like libre office, but every time I have tried to use it, it ended up crashing eventually
Siyuan is probably the most advanced note taking app out there right now. Affine.pro is also a good one Appflowy is also good. All are FOSS.
Siyuan looks too good to be true.
I’m using it and it’s pretty good. It’s arguably too feature rich though. I mean that in every right click you have like 20 options. It’s overwhelming.
Also I use the cloud sync and every few days something doesn’t sync properly when you’re typing and it asks you to re-sync. And so you have to wait a minute while it re-builds the entire index. It doesn’t happen often but when it does it’s annoying.
You check out this video: https://youtu.be/XRpHIa-2XCE
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/XRpHIa-2XCE
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Joplin.
I use logseq and notesnook.
I absolutely second logseq. Would you mind elaborating why/how you use notesnook in addition?
Thanks in advance!
I absolutely second logseq. Would you mind elaborating why/how you use notesnook in addition?
Thanks in advance!
I’ve used both, honestly can’t justify the price of notesnook after using logseq. I’m in the process of switching over entirely to logseq.
I will say though that notesnook is a great alternative to Evernote and OneNote that is private and secure. I just don’t use its features enough to justify using it over logseq and syncthing.
Notesnook required me to re-login every week or so. I paid for it in the beginning but after that kept happening over and over (it was fixed for a while and then regressed) I just gave up. If I need to quickly write something down I don’t want to context-switch into my password manager first. Especially since auto-complete wouldn’t help me, since for whatever fucked up reason Notesnook first asks for the TOTP token and THEN for the password.
I’m not sure what features of OneNote you are talking about, but maybe logseq will suit your needs.
I switched from OneNote to Logseq. Its feature set is pretty much completely different, but in the end I realized it’s fine with me and resulted in my notes being more useful.
The main downside that I see now is that it’s kind of slow - much faster than the Electron version of OneNote was last time I used it, but slower than old native OneNote app or Obsidian. Otherwise its main differences from Obsidian are that in Obsidian the basic building unit is a page, whereas in Logseq it’s a paragraph (and, usually, its sub-paragraphs - it’s an outliner), which Obsidian can only do with plug-ins and not as seamlessly, and that with Obsidian you pretty much need to use community plug-ins, whereas with Logseq a lot of the functionality is built-in.
It’s open-source and uses markdown, not completely standard, but close enough for the files to be entirely usable if Logseq ever dies. Its community is smaller than with Obsidian, which is a downside, but it’s not exactly obscure either.
Really probably the most important thing about Obsidian and Logseq is to read an article or watch a video about how automatic backlinking works. It’s especially useful for something like Zettelkasten, but it also works for more “normal” approaches as well as concepts like Getting Things Done.
Both are OK tools and are similar in many ways, but they’re quite different from OneNote. Downside of both is that synchronization between devices sometimes creates issues unless you use their paid service.
I use the Notes feature of my Nextcloud instance.
