Rnote – A note-taking application for drawing tablets, written in Rust and GTK4

Re:Rnote – A note-taking application for drawing tablets, wr... by smasher164 on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:28PM (#30029543)

I'm still looking for an Apple Notes-equivalent that I can comfortably use on Linux. It's been the hardest part about switching away from MacOS. A cross-platform app that launches instantly, syncs notes, has search functionality, and works on mobile is something I think we're missing.

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Re:Rnote – A note-taking application for drawing tablets, wr... by hikilopei on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:24PM (#30030198)

I use for that Write from StylusLab. You have to sync the files yourself but I appreciate the fact that they are just .svg files that I can read later on with any program instead of some propietary format.

It's still not Notes/One Note equivalent (I'm in your same boat) but it's the closer thing I've found to use with my Android and Linux.

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Re:Rnote – A note-taking application for drawing tablets, wr... by dmd on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:41PM (#30029704)

Is this sarcasm? I honestly can't tell. This space is utterly saturated already.

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Re:Rnote – A note-taking application for drawing tablets, wr... by smasher164 on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:51PM (#30029836)

It's not sarcasm. I've looked pretty hard for the right app and haven't found one that meets all of those requirements. If it's that saturated, then what would you suggest?

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Re:Rnote – A note-taking application for drawing tablets, wr... by dmd on Friday January 21, 2022 @06:23PM (#30031273)

Google Keep, Microsoft OneNote, Notion, Obsidian, Simplenote, Bear, Joplin, Notable, Inkdrop, Supernotes, DevonThink, Craft, Standard Notes, Notability, Roam, Nimbus, Notejoy ... these are just the ones I could think of without even searching.

Personally I'm pretty happy with Apple Notes, though Bear is a close runner up.

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Re:Rnote – A note-taking application for drawing tablets, wr... by smasher164 on Friday January 21, 2022 @06:54PM (#30031550)

All of those either require a paid subscription for syncing/storage, don't support mobile & linux, or are electron-based and take a long time to start up.

I'm not sure why they don't go the Syncthing route of offering peer-to-peer note syncing.

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Re:Rnote – A note-taking application for drawing tablets, wr... by james-redwood on Friday January 21, 2022 @06:49PM (#30031505)

Missing NotesNook but otherwise good list. Anytype is in beta and there’s of course just ordinary text files ;)

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Re:Rnote – A note-taking application for drawing tablets, wr... by nonesuchluck on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:08PM (#30030031)

I use Automattic's Simplenote. I pin the web app in a Firefox tab, avoiding the Electron app. The Android and iOS apps are both great tho. Live sync is perfect, you can publish read-only links to notes (like pastebin), and it has basic Markdown support but basically no other frills.

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Re:Rnote – A note-taking application for drawing tablets, wr... by smasher164 on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:20PM (#30030149)

I’ve been using iCloud notes by pinning a tab, but the search is pretty slow. Does Simplenote fare better here?

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Re:Rnote – A note-taking application for drawing tablets, wr... by nonesuchluck on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:29PM (#30030230)

Has live search, it's as quick as you can type.

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