I use Logseq in my PC and my phone and I unse Syncthing to sync the notes accross my devices.
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I use Obsidian with the obsidian-live sync docker container to sync data between devices instantaneously. It is not open source but they store plaintext markdown notes and its extendable with plenty of open source plugins.
org-roam but logseq is good too.
A Textbook
Obsidian and it syncs to my home server
Silverbullet for web access (including mobile pwa) and syncthing + markor on android.
Yes syncthing is well and alive on android (to prevent the usual posting "its dead on android", no it's not)
Joplin has a pretty slow UI and it doesn't save notes in standard markdown format.
Why not use the silverbullet pwa on android?
Mobile offline sync is a lost cause. The dev environment, even on Android, is so hostile you'll never get a good experience.
Joplin comes close, but it's still extremely unreliable and I've had many dropped notes. It also takes hours to sync a large corpus.
I wrote my own web app using Axum and flask that I use. Check out dokuwiki as well.
I use logseq. But I'm not entirely happy. Automation of processes is a pain in the ass. Mobile is buggy.
I've used Logseq for 2-3 years but it's slow and a pain to use on mobile. I discovered Tiddlywiki in December, I love how customizable it is, but it's been taking me a while to tweak it to match my usual workflow. Running it via nodejs server on android (termux) and laptops (so I'm accessing it on localhost on all devices) and syncing the wikis between devices using Syncthing.
@ocean maybe @notesnook is something for you.
It's even E2E encrypted in case somebody got access to your server or so.
https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook-sync-server?tab=readme-ov-file#notesnook-sync-server
I've used a bunch, but I eventually moved to SilverBullet and will probably stick with it.
Trillium. It works well via browser and reasonably on a mobile browser.
Obsidian is excellent but I can't install any applications on my work computer and the web hosted version was buggy and slow. If I didn't have IT blocking me I'd be using Obsidian again.
Flat notes. I’ve tried a bunch of different more complex apps but I keep coming back to flat notes.
As in a folder of text files? Because that's what I'm doing. Syncing across devices with Syncthing and editing/adding files with whatever markdown editor works best in each platform.
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