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Hey everyone, I'm trying to replace most of the private owned app I use by FOSS ones, and today i'm pointing at notion.

I just use it as a way to organize my notes and use it both on my laptop and phone, and i'm looking for something that can have that fonctionnality.

I've already looked into a bunch of foss note taking apps but I didn't see any that could do it. (maybe i didn't look hard enough tho)

I'm willing to use syncthing or smth similar if needed.

do you have any recommendations? anyway, have a nice day and thanks to everyone making the internet/softwares more libre and accessible!

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[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Could look into self hosting an Obsidian Sync server, see this blog:
https://pinggy.io/blog/self_hosting_obsidian/

Obsidian - https://obsidian.md/

edit: And you can obviously do it without pinggy's tunnel for remote access.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I just syncthing the obsidian vault, works for me...

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly most of my notes are just text files describing the installation process saved together with the installation files in a folder on my NAS. Not much of a note taker outside of that. I've heard many enjoy Obsidian though. :)

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That (folder with files) is pretty much what an obsidian vault is, except it's markdown files (of which text files are a subset). Should just import in with zero issues.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Ah, I should've clarified - my notes are all over the place as "README"s or "INSTALL GUIDE"s in different folders together with the files needed to do the install in question. :)

I had problems with it creating new notes all the time. Glad it worked for you but I moved to Joplin