Looking for an app for note-taking with the following features:
- No ads ever
- No nudges to upgrade, subscribe, unlock premium features, or any bullshit like that.
- No recurring fee (ok paying up-front for the app)
- Clean, simple interface
That’s it. I don’t need multimedia, multi-device syncing, cloud storage. I just need a place to write down ideas and grocery lists.
Recommendations?
Quillnote + Signal’s “note to self”
You can find Quillnote in both Droid and Google’s Play Store.
Obsidian, Hands down.
This definitely, also cross platform. So what more do you want…
Not open-source though sadly 😔
But all your notes are just md files. It’s straightforward that way
Not open source but the data portability is on a level nothing else matches!
I absolutely second this, if you aren’t worried about built-in syncing (I use Syncthing to solve this, also cool piece of software), and if you really like the idea of Markdown/text-only notes with image/file attachments, there is absolutely no better tool. Plus, if you think you can get value out of the note linking feature, you can make some incredibly detailed knowledge bases. Really powerful tool when you need it to be, dead simple note-taking by default, it’s a damn good app
.txt file + syncthing
For true rebels: pen and paper
Element for Matrix. I know weird, but that’s how I like it
Do you send messages to yourself? Is this a thing you can do? I never tried. That would be pretty cool
I used to do this a long time ago when I was still on Facebook. I’d write notes with visibility set to myself only.
Something like that. I created a new space with just me, with encrypted rooms for each topic. Random Thoughts, Books, Movies I Like, etc
I think you’ve inspired me. I’m gonna try this.
I use signal mesagaing app. They have a note to self feature thats awesome.
Not sure how I never found out about this feature before but this is awesome, thanks for sharing it!
Great, now how about a sketching app that follows all the same criteria that OP mentioned. Something for quick and dirty sketches. Nothing fancy. One that can do sketches and notes would be even better.
According to this article, and others I’ve seen pen and paper is still best.
I use Another Notes App. It’s super basic but that’s exactly what I need.
I’ve been using Notally for a while and I think it checks all your boxes.
Very much agreed.
Google keep works fine for me.
I use OneNote usually, easy formating and works well on PC and mobile. Notion is cool too, but has a lot more features than a simple note taking app.
Obsidian
- text files stored in markdown on your device
- no premium service to unlock features. You can buy sync and publishing if you want to, but there are no nags to purchase them.
- you can roll your own sync solution you wanted to. Its just text files. Same goes with publishing.
- community plugins if you want to extend it
- desktop clients and ios clients
- free forever
Love obsidian. For something as simple as what OP is asking for though I just use Google Keep
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Markor.
Then I also add my notes / docs folder to syncthing, and have it on every device.
I used to use Keep Notes by Google. Did the job pretty well but obviously there should be better FOSS & privacy-respecting apps: NoNonesense Notes!
If you liked Google Keep, you might want to check out Quillpad
Not bad, but it looks like it doesn’t support collaborative editing which I frequently use on Keep.
Obsidian.md. It runs on markdown files, so even if you decide you don’t like Obsidian, you’ve still got all the files. It’s super easy to sync with SyncThing or probably Google Drive or whatever. It’s free, and the are a ton of plugins for it. Peri sure there’s a Lemmy community for it around, too.
