Notesnook has been down for about a day, consistent crashes despite deleting it and reinstalling. I don’t seem to be the only one as evidenced by the users voicing this concern on their Github page.
So, while imagining Notesnook will never get back up, what would be some alternatives to it? I’ve tried out Joplin, Quillpad, and Notally in the past, but none really stuck with me. I don’t use Nextcloud either. From what I’ve heard, many seem happy with Standard Notes and Markor. Anything y’all can vouch for?
Looking for an alternative that gets as close to Notesnook as possible, without a subscription model.
Notesnook is working on making their sync server self-hostable so you might just want to self-host once that’s available. Otherwise if it’s just down short-term just a text editor and markdown? You can import markdown files to Notesnook once it’s back up for you.
Notesnook has been working fine for me, not sure why some users are having issues and some not.
Just found this the other day; not sure it suits your needs but its really neat! https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
If it’s only been a day, I might wait a bit longer before writing it off. The issue could very well be resolved soon. Even the big tech companies have a service go through problems for a day or two.
I only tested Notesnook for a few days, so I may not remember it’s key elements well, but Standard Notes seemed like a very similar product (the downside is the subscription, it was basically unusable to me without paying).
The NotesNook UI is the best I’ve seen, it’s hard to find that level of polish in a FOSS android app.
I think you’ll struggle to find what you’re looking for without a subscription model unfortunately. If you do want to retry Joplin that is my recommendation, I run it with a locally hosted Joplin sync server, it’s fantastic for my use case. It’s been recieving a lot of solid updates lately too.
You mention Quillpad, so I assume this is for Android. If so, I went through a similar search after dropping NextCloud. I ended up with GitJournal. The app is nice and has all the features I need. I have it backed with self-hosted Forgejo. If I need to make a note on a desk/laptop, I can clone the repo and use whatever text editor I like since it’s all just markdown. I even have vs code server set up for quick notes on the web
Sweet I’ve been looking for a notes app with git integration!
Couldn’t find it on fdroid unfortunately, so I have some digging to do I think.
I found it using the search in Neo Store, but you should be able to add this repo to F-Droid: https://gitjournal.io/fdroid/repo
😮4$ on iPhone VS free on Android +35$ to unlock tags and backlink
Would have loved testing it, if there was a way for free trial 🤷🏻♀️ but I will not buy the cat in the bag…
Closest I could find without a subscription with E2EE is Joplin, which you tried…
