I am currently using Obsidian. I like it; it is great. The graph is a bit of a gimmick but very rewarding. The formatting is easy. The search can be great and powerful, but Markdown can also be a letdown sometimes; it is just so limiting sometimes.
I think Obsidian is almost boring. It works, and my main gripe is syncing it to my phone. I have tried using Syncthing, but I often get clashes with versions of notes or even lose notes, even when using Syncthing versioning.
But then there is Notion. Let me first say, I have not used Notion at all. I made an account, saw all the great stuff, especially the database feature and all the APIs, but something felt off.
Of course, I researched the privacy of Notion and realised it is a complete dumpster fire.
My work is confidential; I really can’t use something like Notion. But then, for my personal stuff, I also don’t want AI to be trained on it or used for marketing to me or on me.
Are there alternatives to Notion that someone can recommend to me?
I write notes in markdown (I’m not attached to any particular editor) and push them to a self hosted git server. Git therefore also helps handle any merge conflicts between devices.
Joplin
Joplin is a classic and was my goto before Obsidian
I use and recommend crypt.ee
I know of these 2. The second i have been using and is very nice.
https://appflowy.com/ is another possibility.
Logseq can be run locally (without any “cloud”) and is free & open source.
But considerably different compared to Obsidian in a lot of small ways. It was a deal breaker for me
I came here to recommend Logseq. It has quite some plugins for different use cases, too.
Not really unfortunately. I use Joplin with my notes living on my nextcloud at the moment, but its still not quite what I’m looking for. Notesnook might be another one worth looking at. I think you can also self host it, but I haven’t tried it yet.
I believe you will happy with anytype:
the source code is made public and your notes/database are encrypted by default. You can even sync locally from your phone/laptop without internet.
The only two negatives I have found are that the mobile app has 1 tracker embedded into it (amplitude) and you dont have a choice about your encrypted data syncing to their servers.
This looks amazing thank you for this. Never would have thought about switching before I saw this.
Looks cool, but what do you mean about encrypted data syncing to their servers? Why is that necessary if there is a local sync feature?
If you’re a little into self-hosting and can follow a readme on how to start a Docker container then you can even get around having any of your data on their servers and use a private sync server :)
This looks amazing, thank you very much!
That is something that a pihole can sort completely, no?
