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

• Obsidian — active stack (sync via Nextcloud + FolderSync)

• Logseq — RIP replaced by Obsidian

• 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