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Notes App Alternatives

Checklist

  • FOSS
  • Mobile app
  • Markdown files at the core (ejectable)
  • Naming files uniquely, prefixed with date
  • Note linking (hypertext/back-linking)
  • Drawing/diagramming
  • Structured organize(able)
  • Graph view
  • Sync (live plus)
  • API

Evaluated

  • Logseq — active stack (resolved sync via Nextcloud + FolderSync)
  • Obsidian — RIP not open source, but top choice if FOSS isn't required
  • Zettlr — RIP lacks drawing
  • Trilium — RIP lacks proper markdown support
  • AppFlowy — RIP login/DB issues on setup
  • Standard Notes — RIP sync issues, no backlinking
  • Nightlio — RIP broken Docker images
  • AnyType — RIP no eject, lacks drawing
  • Notion — RIP no FOSS, no MD, no graph view
  • OneNote — RIP no FOSS, no MD, no API
  • Evernote — RIP no MD, no FOSS, no graph view
  • Joplin — RIP saves files as uncontrollable unique IDs
  • Capacities — TBD
  • Mem — TBD
  • Tana — TBD