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?
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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!
.txt file + syncthing
For true rebels: pen and paper
There is Google Keep.
But if you want to degoogle, well I’m reading the thread. I’ve heard of Joplin (spelling?).
I like quillpad from f-droid as my Google keep alternative. Pretty identical to keep aside from the online syncing.
I see quillpad has Nextcloud syncing. This is a good start. And I think it’s possible to sync using Syncthing too.
I really need to go and get syncthing setup. Been meaning to in order to sync Steam Deck saves to my PC.
Not an app, and I haven’t really used it, but tinylist feels quite Google Keepy. You can add it to your home screen, but it doesn’t seem to work offline.
Quillnote + Signal’s “note to self”
You can find Quillnote in both Droid and Google’s Play Store.
Obsidian is kewl cloud sync aint free though.
I just save my obsidian workspace in Dropbox/google drive/etc and that does the job for me
If you don’t mind self hosting, there is a community plugin for live sync backed to CouchDB.
Google keep works fine for me.
ColorNote
It meets every item on your list.
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.
Notion has been pretty great so far; I recently moved there from Evernote. Only downside (for me) is that it’s based on electron.
According to this article, and others I’ve seen pen and paper is still best.
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
Markor. It’s as simple as it gets, but can scale up if you decide to later
I found Obsidian good, and Markor the best, on Android.
Markor.
Then I also add my notes / docs folder to syncthing, and have it on every device.
