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FSNotes v5: Notes manager for macOS and iOS – native, open source

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  1. A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
    Https://obsidian.md/ is close to this, although a different editor. The notes are just markdown files in a folder so you can also save it as a git repo and edit through codespaces or VSC's remote editing extensions.

    #Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1454 social mentions

  2. File system notes manager
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Knowledge Management #Notes 22 social mentions

  3. Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Obsidian really is a great choice if you are looking for Markdown. Windows, Linux, Mac, Android/iOS mobile apps soon. It's polished, fast, and all around a great experience. Flexible inter-note linking (wiki style), visualization, backlink discovery, handles images and embedded documents well. All around a good product. I'm still looking for something with a cross-platform GUI that I like as much as I liked Obsidian.md - but with the same sort of arbitrarily nested hierarchy and ability to adhoc rearrange my notes like org-mode provides. The Emacs/org-mode level of customization would be nice, too. Trilium Notes ( https://github.com/zadam/trilium ) was also a good contendor, but not having a text-content-first focus made for some frustrating experiences of data corruption, and testing data export of my initial trial run was messy as a consequence as well.

    #Note Taking #Notes #Todos 113 social mentions

  4. A safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    4. Shareable with others with editing privs eg a grocery list for family I just subscribed to Standard Notes:https://standardnotes.com/ It seems to have #1 and #2. UI is more cluttered than iOS. And not shareable with editing privs.

    #Security & Privacy #Notes #Personal Notes 128 social mentions

  5. Beautiful & easy to use Markdown editor w/ powerful features
    Lot's of discussion about other apps but none cover the main selling point for me. FSNotes was created initially as an open source Notational Velocity / NVAlt replacement when NVAlt broke on one of the MacOS version upgrades. It can be configured to replicate the amazing modal search / create interface from those apps. There is also NVUltra [0] from Brett Terpstra, his successor to NVAlt. It is still in beta after quite a while. From memory it seemed more powerful and a bit slicker overall, but right now I don't need to do anything too complicated and prefer the cleaner native look of FSNotes. FSNotes has no dropbox integration for the iOS app, but you can still use dropbox as a store and use any other plain text / markdown iOS note app. I use 1Writer. [0] https://nvultra.com [1] https://1writerapp.com.

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 4 social mentions

  6. KeyNote NF is a flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook, based on Windows standard RichEdit...
    Https://github.com/dpradov/keynote-nf On the mac though I never found anything as good.

    #Note Taking #Notes #Todos 3 social mentions

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    Personal knowledge management and sharing on VSCode & GitHub
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Foam is pretty good for this as well: https://foambubble.github.io/foam/.

    #Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Knowledge Management 45 social mentions

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