Highly recommended notes apps

There are tons of Notes app available in the playstore and f-droid. I have use my fair share of them these are my best 5 recommendations. All of these are free to use and have to pay extra if you want specific features.

  1. All in one - Wenote - This is the most powerful note app I have used. This has memo, voice record, calendar, sync, color coding, various fonts, categories etc. Some of these features are behind a paywall. But It is a one time payment. It looks minimal and is light weight.
  2. All in one but foss - Joplin - This is an open-source project. Available on almost all platforms. If you want a powerful cross-platform note taking application then this is the best bet. This is Completely free but has an option of premium sync option. You can use free sync service to nextcloud and webdav.
  3. Security - Standard Notes - This is a note taking application that focuses on security. This is an open-source private notes app meaning your notes are end-to-end encrypted, so only you can read your notes. It has a minimal and clean UI. It has dedicated apps for most platforms and syncs your notes securely across all your devices, including your Android devices, Windows, iOS, Linux, and Web.
  4. Modern - Bundled Notes - This is the most modern looking Notes app on my list. It is aesthetically pleasing and intuitive. A powerful notes, lists, reminders and to-do app. Easily organise notes, lists, photos, files, and more. A google keep alternative.
  5. For casual use - Notally - A lightweight note taking application. A simple and elegant open source notes app. Notally is a minimalistic note taking app with a beautiful material design and powerful features. Dark mode, Completely free, Adjustable text size, Auto save and backup, No permissions required.

P.S: Obsidian is also a great Note taking tool.

9715698,

I’ve been using Anytype for the past 6 months, and love the direction its going.

It doesn’t have the flexibility of plugins that Obsidian has, but it’s open source, so hopefully some day it will mature in that direction.

It also offers the option of 1GB cloud storage for free, which is plenty for text.

random65837,

How is Notesnook not in there, FOSS, E2EE and zero knowledge, unlike Standard notes it’s not totally crippled unless you pay a completely overpriced amount to buy. I’m all for laying for great apps, but Standards pricing is a complete spit in the face for a notes app.

mojo,

I just use Another Notes

Simple and does everything I need.

limerod,

I use the built-in samsung notes app and have orgzly, which supports org-mode. Available on both Fdroid and playstore.

ced225be4a26,

logseq.com

“[…] store your interests, questions, ideas, favorite quotes, reminders, reading and meeting notes easily and future-proof”

ViciousTurducken,

I like Notesnook a lot

Morphior,

I’m using Notesnook. One thing that’s really annoying is the checklist feature. It’s so difficult to check off an item instead of hitting the text box. And changing it to read-only also disables the check boxes from being able to be changed.

random65837,

Could you explain that one? I just tap the box and it checks. Never had any type of issue there.

And changing it to read-only also disables the check boxes from being able to be changed.

Being read only by definition would prevent you from changing anything.

One thing that seems convoluted as hell toe is adding the separators to lists, which I like but to this day have to fuck around in the options to get one on there everytime, but still seems to be the best one I’ve found.

gnygnygny,

Upnote is a masterpiece

9715698,

I love upnote, but wish they didn’t change the icon.

DeathWearsANecktie,

I have a lot of notes on Google keep, how would I copy my notes over if I wanted to switch to one of these apps?

And009,

Maybe find a way to export and import in csv format. Might be quicker to just copy paste manually unless you have 100s of them.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Assuming it’s not >hundreds of notes but <100 I would argue to do it manually.
Yes it’s annoying but the upside of it is, that you could comb through old notes and bin old ideas, knowledge etc. Helps to keep it fresh.

burgersc12,

Simple or Markor are both open source, i prefer their simplicity

agame,

I have tried markor. But didn’t like to UI.

starlord,

Obsidian is really great but I can’t recommend Standard Notes enough; it is my Google Keep replacement and has served me well.

agame,

Obsidian and joplin are really similar.

AlmightySnoo,

Obligatory Quillpad mention: f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.quillpad/

agame,

I used quillpad before switching to notally. Quillpad is awesome.

MargotRobbie,
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world avatar

Any reason you switched?

agame,

UI preference.

random65837,

Same here, Quillpad appears abandoned. Last update was in 2022. A lot of great apps refuse to update UI with the times. Material has come and gone, now all that stuff just looks outdated.

RiQuY,

Notesnook is pretty good too.

agame,

It has great UI.

harsh3466,

Joplin also supports end to end encryption on your notes, and you can self host the sync server for free sync you control.

Edit to add: you can also sync it via self hosted WebDAV (like nextcloud)

agame,

Nextcloud sync is convenient.

harsh3466,

It is. I used to sync mine via nextcloud, but I don’t run nextcloud on my homelab anymore, so I switched to Joplin server. Nothing wrong with nextcloud, was just not what I needed.

grrk,
@grrk@lemmy.ml avatar

Been using Joplin over a year now, works well for me. Would recommend

agame,

Great app.

Minty95,

Yes I agree, it also syncs to Dropbox, syncs very fast. works very well in Linux, Android phones

SamXavia,
@SamXavia@kbin.run avatar

@agame I normally use Obsidian as it has lots of things that you can change and notes can connect together.

agame,

Joplin and obsidian are really similar. It was tough choosing between them. But I prefer joplin. Both are excellent though.

SamXavia,
@SamXavia@kbin.run avatar

@agame Never heard of Joplin, I'll be sure to check it out

agame,

You have clients for windows, mac and linux. Linux AppImage is so convenient.

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