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Re:A structured note-taking app for personal use by bradley13 on Friday December 22, 2023 @08:40AM (#38734014)
I look at these apps occasionally, and I've even tried a few of them. In the end, I find them to just be overkill. Give me a simple text editor, and I put the text files where the information belongs.

Using fancy apps, where you can do formatting, place links, etc? I spend too much time futzing with all that stuff and less time actually getting stuff done.

Re:A structured note-taking app for personal use by Aicy on Friday December 22, 2023 @08:54AM (#38734123)
I spent lots of time with notion and obsidian and this is what I came to as well.

What I do now is have markdown files, and use the OS folder system for organising. I then use OneDrive for syncing - this works perfectly fine between MacOS and Windows, and for both I use Visual Studio Code for editing. For android I use an app called FolderSync to sync and TMarkor for editing.

Has been working perfectly for over a year now.

Re:A structured note-taking app for personal use by stack_underflow on Friday December 22, 2023 @10:31AM (#38735059)
Just curious, any reason you're using TMarkor instead of Markor? (https://github.com/gsantner/markor/ , https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.gsantner.m...)

Only asking since this was also the editor I ended up settling on in Android, but it seems like TMarkor is just a repackaging of Markor without any references to its forked(?) source.

My requirement was that the editor had to be open source so that I could audit the repo and compile the APK from source, as well as potentially fork it for personal modifications if needed.

Re:A structured note-taking app for personal use by Aicy on Saturday December 23, 2023 @03:11PM (#38747709)
I didn't really think about it much, I just searched for markdown editor on the play store and used the first one that worked.
Re:A structured note-taking app for personal use by mejutoco on Friday December 22, 2023 @10:00AM (#38734753)
Obsidian also uses markdown files, so you could have stayed with it and backup the folders normally, if you do not want to pay for the syncing.
Re:A structured note-taking app for personal use by Aicy on Saturday December 23, 2023 @03:10PM (#38747703)
I don't like how anti folders Obsidian is, the whole tagging way of organising is foreign to me.