Best ONENOTE ALTERNATIVES for Linux, Windows and MacOS

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01:33 Open Source Alternatives
01:42 Notekit: markdown + hand written notes
02:43 Nextcloud Collectives: Self hosted and collaborative
03:45 Obsidian: powerful and customizable
05:10 Zettlr: for research and writing papers
06:28 Joplin: mobile apps and sync
07:43 Other FOSS options
09:15 Proprietary Alternatives
09:34 Zoho Notebooks: simple, and free
10:48 Notion: everything in the same place
11:56 Evernote: tag organisation
13:09 Replacing OneNote
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Notekit is a nice alternative for Linux and Windows. It uses markdown. It doesn't have a mobile app, or syncing capabilities though.
github.com/blackhole89/notekit
Nextcloud Collectives lets you create knowledge bases straight from your Nextcloud server. You can create Collectives, which are basically notebooks, and pages inside of these. They support text formatting, adding images, todolists, emojis, codeblocks, or tables.
apps.nextcloud.com/apps/colle...
Obsidian is NOT open source, available for Linux, windows, macos, iOS and Android. It lets you organize text documents in one place, with a focus on connecting your documents, with a graph view that represents all the links from one note to another. It supports markdown, and has a big plugin system. It's really powerful.
obsidian.md/
Zettlr is another open source, and free of charge alternative, more geared towards research. It supports tabs in the interface, it has full markdown capabilities, including YAML frontmatter variables, it lets you organize your files through folders, and it handles external reference documents that you can link to your notes.
www.zettlr.com/
All of the previous solutions didn't include mobile apps, or native syncing capabilities, so let's look at one that does all that: Joplin. It supports images, videos, documents, audio files, math formulas, as well as note sharing and collaboration, saving web pages as notes with a browser extension, and you can write in markdown. It has mobile apps for iOS and Android, and you can sync your notes using your own cloud storage, like Nextcloud, Dropbox or OneDrive, or you can use Joplin Cloud.
joplinapp.org/
And if all you want is hand written notes, then there's Rnote. It supports writing notes using a stylus, with pressure sensitivity, it has shape tools, selection tools, you can customize the page background and format, configure stylus buttons, it supports drag and drop, importing from various file formats.
github.com/flxzt/rnote
Now, let's looks at non open source alternatives.
Zoho Notebooks lets you create notebooks, with notes inside of them. They support rich txt formatting, adding media files, like images or audio, linking other file types like PDFs, you can set reminders in notes, have todo lists, tables, quotes, code blocks, and it supports hand written notes as well. They have a mobile app for iOS and Android, a web clipper extension to save web pages to your notes, and it has a Linux version as well, although it seems to only be a debian package.
www.zoho.com/fr/notebook/
Notion, is an extremely flexible program, that lets you create not only text notes, but also todo lists, project management tools, tables, knowledge bases, meeting notes, roadmaps, kandban boards, and more. You can create your own templates or grab them from the community, and you can organize all of that into one single workspace.
www.notion.so/
notion-enhancer.github.io/
Evernote does everything, from todos, text, rich formatting, audio notes, web clippings, notebooks, tags, advanced search, tables, calendars, task management, it's evolved past its note taking roots and basically became a full on workspace where you can do anything you need that's work related.
evernote.com/
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@TheLinuxEXP Год назад

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@DryPaperHammerBro Год назад

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@vladimir_fomin90 Год назад

cherrytree)

@dmitryvolkov7178 Год назад

logseq very good alternative to obsidian

@streambarhoum4464 Год назад

Hey Nick, Don't worry my friend i found👉 saber 👈 in fdroid as an amazing alternative for handwritten notes cross platform synchronizable with nextcloud 😊💐🤩

@navneetvikramtey Год назад

Obsidian is not open-source, and a good alternative to it is "Trilium" which is open source

@LukasTheWizard Год назад

true its closed source

@martianingreen Год назад

Tbh Obsidian is much better in my experience. Trilium is really buggy in my experience but it might still be a good tool if you're okay with that

@jeanvbarros Год назад

It is not open source, but it has an open ecosystem. Virtually all plug-ins are open source, and also the format that it uses: markdown plain text.

@ImDarthMole Год назад

One thing to consider with Obsidian: the app may not be open source but it doesn’t create proprietary files. Any other md editor can open them. The note structure is also handled by OS folder structure.

@alexxx4434 Год назад

Obsidian also has mobile app.

@computerfan1079 Год назад

Joplin for notes, Zettlr for writing Essays. Zettlr with Zotero, Latex and Pandoc is insanely powerful, you do not need Word anymore after that

@streambarhoum4464 Год назад

Is there an alternative to rnote for Android please?

@watynecc3309 2 месяца назад

@@streambarhoum4464 try xournal++

@lulaschkas5127 Год назад

I was also searching for a replacement some time ago and found "Trilium Notes" the best. It has a self hosted docker server in case you want to "backup" your notes but can also run standalone. It has a great feature set and is open source.

@remoschramm Год назад

i totally agree, trilium is the best replacement i've found for me (would be nice to have a ios/android app, but it's useable as webapp)

@AlbusRegis Год назад

I also agree, I use it to document my home lab. The code type notes and the internal linking make for excelent quick documentation access.

@orkhepaj Год назад

it is so bad imho , very slow

@remoschramm Год назад

@@orkhepaj mine is running very smooth, i have round about 2000 notes with code, images and drawings, also some added pdf's

@remoschramm Год назад

@@turanamo trilium is just software and software has no political opinion, people have

@gtkall Год назад

From a (very happy) user of Obsidian and self-hosting enthusiast, here's a pro-tip: You can use SyncThing (or any other file-syncing software) to make your own online backup solution, since, as Nick correctly pointed, The Vaults are just text files in folders! The .obsidian hidden folder holds your Vault's configuration, including all of your installed plugins for this Vault. Also, YES (!), syncing the files works for the Android application, too! To summarize: Obsidian + SyncThing =

@asystole_ Год назад

Couldn't agree more. I love Obsidian so much. Personally I don't mind paying for their own sync service to financially support the project and to make syncing to mobile devices easier, but Syncthing is a great option too.

@gtkall Год назад

@@asystole_ I also payed the one-time fee for supporting the application and I would happily pay for their syncing solution too, but I am self-hosting as a hobby and I am becoming progressively paranoid with privacy, so I opted for SyncThing.

@netbotcl586 Год назад

Logseq is my favorite now, moved from obsidian to it. They are also adding Whiteboard for handwritten notes.

@barbietripping Год назад

Ok I'll be excited if the whiteboard is good. Nothing quite beats xournal++ or Inkscape or mathcha

@charlie_chiu Год назад

And it's open source.

@CookiLover311 Год назад

I was never really a fan of OneNote, so I started using Joplin, and after getting used to math notation in markdown (which isn't really related to Joplin itself), I've been liking it a lot

@someITGuy Год назад

I switched from OneNote to Joplin three months ago. Since my workflow of taking notes is pretty simple (mostly text notes and sometimes embedded pictures) and I never was fond of handwriting or drawing in my note app and do not missing it either. Joplin serves me pretty well. My notebooks are are on my self hosted Nexctloud. Because I use an iPhone additionally to several Linux clients it was important for me to have a mobile app too. My very first notes in Joplin needed some experience using markdown language formatting (never needed it in OneNote). But after writing four or five notes using MD formatting I got pretty used to it. I love Joplin. 👍

@FrankCastiglione Год назад

Thank you so much for showing that Joplin allows you to sync cloud with various services! I migrated from Evernote straight to Obsidian (and installed Joplin just to assist in the export and conversion of my database). I had the impression that Joplin was not FOSS and now I'm excited. (And I also imagined before Obsidian was FOSS, so I'm thinking of migrating to the Logseq) The Joplin end -to -end encryption feature allows to leave Notes on my OneDrive (it's the cheapest option, the only one I can afford at the moment ...) without worrying much about the issue of privacy.

@antimundo2646 Год назад

It's incredible that you just made this video the day after I just installed one note because I didn't know about any alternatives! Thanks for the video, you uploaded it in the perfect moment for me

@FengLengshun Год назад

I go with Joplin. Joplin's structure and the way it works _just works_ for everything that I'd need a journal type note-taking app to be. Very useful for work with Inline TODO extension and basic html capabilities (the tags are super useful), and has a simple interface for me to write on, and backup certain stuff I want backup/sync. I keep a lot of my linux config and choco installs there too. Their mobile app leaves a lot to be desired, but I don't write long stuff on mobile, so I'd rather use a Keep replacement likr Standard Notes or Simplenote (though I've just went with WhatsApp send to self lately). I used to use Dropbox and OneDrive for syncing before, but I liked it enough to get their stuff. It's "just right" for what I want and I appreciate that.

@gridlocdev2023 Год назад

StandardNotes is an incredibly underrated open-source note-taking app and I'm surprised I don't see it mentioned more often. I've personally been a happy paying user for over a year now and honestly haven't even had to consider anything else. It's both end-to-end encrypted as well as supports multiple device sync (including mobile support) in the free plan, and the paid plans includes more document types like spreadsheets, code, and task lists in addition to some other great features.

@MatteoPasolini Год назад

Agree

@Atticus_Moore Год назад

woah i'm gonna have to look into this one thank you!

@Dee-Ell Год назад

I use StandardNotes too. I don't need super advanced features. It's easy to use and it has a Web-based app, which makes it very accessible (I keep its browser tab pinned). Easy to use and accessible, that's what I care about the most. Just as a test, I exported my notes and imported them to Joplin. The migration seems to work reasonably well. But I'm not using Joplin since I don't like keeping an app running just in case I need to quickly write down some notes; that's why I much prefer something with a Web-based app.

@als_pals Месяц назад

It's being merged now and taken over by proton so that'll be interesting to see what they do

@tschorsch День назад

@@Dee-Ell It usually doesn't take any longer to load an app than to load a web page. Not to mention that browsers are enormous memory and CPU hogs. A native app is usually much less of a problem. On both my mobile devices and my computers, it is one or two clicks away to get to Joplin. Even if left running, mobile doesn't leave the app in memory for long.

@sudhanshusingh5932 Год назад

NICKKKKK MYY BROOO!!!! i was literally searching *alternatives for OneNote* like few hours ago and you just now saw this on my feed LET'S GOOOOOO!!!!

@shaneball3493 Год назад

I really appreciate the variety of info you cover. Thank you!

@Nepoxification Год назад

I prefer Obsidian over Joplin. It's UI on the mobile part is much more convenient. Also it's implementation of Plugins is superior. You have Excallidraw as a plugin which allows for seamless handwritten notes. Perfectly integrated. Also you have all the plugins on the mobile version aswell! Aaaaand they are saved inside the "Vault" (the directory that contains all your Obsidian Notes), that means if you sync that vault to your mobile devices and add a new plugin on ANY of the devices, each and every other device automatically gets the plugin. Regarding sync, the solution mentioned here in the video is the official one. But it's pricy af and tbh, i don't want my stuff on anyones server. So you can just take that "Vault" and sync it however you like! It's literally just a folder containting .md files and the various other files you attached. On your mobile end you can use whatever App you want to sync that folder with your local storage; Autosync, FolderSync, etc. etc. It's amazing and imo the best choice here IF YOU ARE WILLING to put in some little work to get the sync happening (most of the work is on the mobile side)

@xfilesxfilesxfiles Год назад

Is there any way to get the pro feat without paying Like u mentioned I just can’t pay 8bucks a month for a fucking notes app

@jahinzee 9 месяцев назад

@@xfilesxfilesxfilesThe notes are all stored in one folder as Markdown files, so you can use any file-syncing app and point it to your vault. Alternatively, there's a community plugin that you can use to sync your vault to a remote Git repository

@fotnite_ Год назад

I've been using Rnote for about half a year, it's crazy how much improvement it's seen just over this time period. As far as stylus note taking, I actually prefer it to OneNote, the interface is faster, switching colors and tools is easier, and exporting actually works properly. Not to mention that you can enable page outlines and import from and export to a wide variety of formats. I've always preferred not to mix typed and handwritten notes, so having a stylus note-taking app was really all I wanted to replicate from OneNote. The Rnote + Markdown combination is better enough for me than OneNote that it's now another thing that has me "stuck" in the Linux ecosystem. If anyone else uses a 2 in 1 laptop for note taking I highly recommend checking it out. Kinda sad it wasn't the main apps featured in the video, even if it lacks many of the features the other apps have, it is built for a specific purpose and is easily the best option when it comes to that purpose.

@lele204GamesTutorials Год назад

Second this. It works great, improves quite fast and the interface looks like something out of this decade. Can't recommend it enough

@Moonnikill 6 месяцев назад

By rnote and markdown combo do you mean with a seperate app? I have a 2 in 1 laptop and writing handwritten notes on onenote is legitemately the only thing holding me back from taking the plunge. Also does it have pdf imports/infinite canvas? Thank you!

@fotnite_ 6 месяцев назад

@@Moonnikill These are two separate apps, yes. Rnote has PDF imports and exports, in fact they're better than OneNote. When I was using OneNote, it didn't have guide lines for what sections would be exported as a page, but Rnote let's you (optionally) see guidelines while still having infinite scroll.

@gianfrixmg Год назад

I found out about Obsidian some days ago and I love it! I use it a work to keep track of everything and to have a nice Kanban board using a plugin.

@orkhepaj Год назад

it is not free work stuff

@wumwum42 Год назад

One thing I hate about joblin is, that they use a custom folder architecture. This makes it borderline impossible to combine it with any other program while with obsidian or zettlr, you keep your folders and can just use them to store files like you did before and can seemlessly switch between them (Aside note kit, as they way of storing drawings makes it dangorus to open the md anywhere else as they might break the annotations.)

@orkhepaj Год назад

yeah , it should be turned into an open and free obsidian

@barbietripping Год назад

@@orkhepaj big agree. I really prefer the simplicity of obsidian's files

@user-zp9hd8em3t Год назад

The owners of a Synology NAS also have option to run DS Note server on them and access world wide through Synology DS Note client applications for Linux, Windows and Android.

@eufrozinak9461 Год назад

My selection of programs this semester was Obsidian, Rnote, and VSCode for studying electrical engineering, which needs all 3 types of notes: drawing, math and text. I'll look into FOSS Obsidian alternatives tough, and use whichever markdown editor has the best LaTeX and circuitikz integration. If none of them do, next semester might look like Texmaker-Rnote-Neovide.

@beardlyinteresting Год назад

An excellent list, will definitely have to try some of these out and see if I can migrate my oneNote docs into them.

@MegaManNeo Год назад

Joplin sounds like it's the notes tool I was looking for. Thanks for sharing these tools.

@theretromillennial Год назад

Joplin really is a fantastic application. I use Windows, Mac, and Linux on a regular basis and use an iPhone so shared notes between all of those platforms have been a pain for a while. I switched to Joplin from Simplenote a couple years back and haven’t looked back.

@PlanetLinuxChannel Год назад

Got myself a Synology NAS for file storage / backup, but one of its most underrated features is the amazing productivity suite packages available for it, including their Note Station. Seriously, Synology’s Drive, Office, Chat, Calendar, and Note Station software are really good and, while not open-source, they can be used completely privately on just your local network or tunnelled through a VPN of your choosing (which you could also set up on the NAS).

@-nepherim Год назад

I've tried all of these, and am now happy with MarkText with files synced to my mobile device using SyncThing, using Zettler and recently Markor on Android.

@deepaksingh9318 3 месяца назад

Exactly what i was looking for .. Thanks for making the video

@TrueRainsie Год назад

I'm mainly a Windows user, but I also went on a quest to find a note-taking app. Cherrytree is a decent freeware alternative. Syntax highlighting, own DB, tree structure, the works. Ultra Recall is not seeing active development lately, but is somewhat recent. It has a nice interface, has a portable version, and a lot of features. I ended up buying it. EssentialPIM is another option worthy of consideration. It's more of an Outlook replacement, but also does have a well developed note taking part.

@NTLyesYT Год назад

Quick correction about NoteKit : It is in the official Fedora repos. The COPR is discontinued and is only there to continue support for legacy users of the COPR using cLaTeXMath. Unfortunately, cLaTeXMath support isn't enabled in the fedora package due to legal issues, as we're waiting to transition to cLaTeXMath's successor, microTeX.

@MatteoPasolini Год назад

Pretty surprised you didn't mention Standard Notes. It's open source, e2e encrypted by default, nice desktop/web/mobile apps, pretty popular and... it's awesome! Very complete and usable, very rational. It also has been positively audited over the years. Last but not least, it has a pretty cool always-free plan with unlimited notes and storage (but limited editors). I encourage to try it! After Bitwarden, Standard Notes is one of the most important digital tool I use.

@skillzset1066 Год назад

*Obsidian* is the only second brain here. Everything compared to Obsidian is like comparing paper planes to actual NASA rockets. And that's mainly due to Obsidian's plugin ecosystem. There are single plugins that outperform entire paid online services. Yes, Obsidian isn't open-source but all of the plugins are open-source. Obsidian is free, works offline and standardises everything in markdown. Obsidian should be in an entirely different category of its own.

@felipemldias 4 месяца назад

If we could have a "live preview" view such as blocknote and a mobile app that doesn't constantly reloads, Obsidian would be perfect

@aboveeverything Год назад

I love Joplin as the Opensource alternative And Zoho as a full-stack package

@Watchandlearn91 Год назад

I have just been using Typora (markdown editor) with standard markdown files organized with a standard folder structure. There is a folder called "Notes" in my Dropbox with folders underneath it that serve as basically notebooks and folders under those that serve as sections (and subsections) and the .md files containing the actual note content. Typora has an option to reopen the files last open when restarting the app that is super useful and you can keep the entire tree of notes open in the side by just opening the master folder. FYI, one of the main issues I had moving away from OneNote was that there is not an easy way to export all of your notes and migrate to another app. For me, I had about 100 note files that I had to copy/paste over manually which was a pain but after that, I will NEVER move to another proprietary locked down note solution without proper import AND export functionality.

@shubhamjani2509 Год назад

I was literally just looking for this today and out of nowhere you post the video about this

@jpmyers6950 Год назад

Very detailed video Nick. Sometimes I think we are headed into too much complexity. I've used some of those note takers but turns out I only need basic text notes for shopping lists, todo list. Stuff like that. I use the note taking app built into fast mail. Fast mail is a huge bargain for $5 a month.

@mcdazz2011 Год назад

Great video. Joplin seems to meet most of my needs, so that's the one I'm going with.

@ritamsaha3512 Год назад

Nick kind of glossed over it, but Rnote is pretty amazing piece of software with tons of features and more features coming soon. People should give it a try. The few thing this is missing is tab View and latex rendering.

@vira8190 Год назад

aaaah I've been strugling with this and I think Zettir is what I wanted, thank you!

@galtthedestroyer Год назад

Thanks for the detailed research.

@Xtrems Год назад

I use obsidian. Not because it's the best, because it in a lot of ways isn't, but because it plays really well into the way I organize myself

@fuzzycaterpillar8608 3 месяца назад

Great resource of a video!

@workshed556 Год назад

I have tried a lot of these and am the most happiest with Joplin.

@jamessmith1652 Год назад

Such a seamless cut to your sponsor, I was shocked to see the change of clothes!

@luizotavio2116 Год назад

Joplin is the best! It allowed to completely replace my EverNote subscription and it just works perfectly!

@qlx-i Год назад

You actually can sync obsidian notes for free, using syncthing, nextcloud or whatever else supporting automatic folder upload!

@arkoprovo1996 Год назад

Also, a much limited app, but SimpleNote ... FOSS + has an electron client + Sync with phone + browser based, but best thing is it allows notes to be published as webpages.

@skelebro9999 Год назад

The one I use is Taskade. It's available on almost any Linux and Linux ARM distros and can be run on any browser. They even have a legible mobile app and tons of tutorials on their official YT channel. Sadly, it's not open-source :(

@CasualLinuxGaming Год назад

I am using Simplenote lately. It's simple enough and has easy sync between the linux app and android.

@WinstoneSmith Год назад

I recently discovered UpNote after trying several options, and works really great; very comprehensive (non-FOSS though). I would ckeck for web-clipping skills, as are perhaps one of the main strengths of Evernote or OneNote.

@treyquattro Год назад

this is exactly where I am! OneNote is *the* Microsoft app that I'm hooked on so this is a very timely video.

@steveowens9829 Год назад

I've tried OneNote, Joplin, EverNote, etc.(may take a look at NoteKit), but I always come back to Emacs + org-mode.

@comesignotus9888 Год назад

Using Joplin. Opensource, sync with end-to-end encryption through 3rd party cloud storage, available on Win, Lin, Mac, mobile platforms. managed to export Apple's notes and import them to Joplin and quite happy with that. No handwritten notes is a shortcoming, but not that big for me.

@RonakDhakan 3 месяца назад

I am in the middle of my transition from OneNote to Obsidian and Windows to Linux. Joplin would be my 2nd choice after Obsidian if I did not want to fiddle with the Obsidian configuration and plugins.

@christender3614 Год назад

I have some experience with Joplin, but one Evernote feature is indispensable for me: Taking a screenshot on iOS and sending it to Evernote, I get a small window (i.e. Evernote doesn’t open in its regular fashion) where I can choose a name for a new note and can assign some tags, the note then gets created in the background. The screenshot itself is still open in iOS so that I can delete it right away.

@QDSGames Год назад

I love Obsidian. But I also have to mention Dendron. It is a VSCode extension and very powerful.

@prakhars962 Год назад

i use Jupyter lab for my research. The advantage is that I can put my codes next to my notes. I connect my ipad to my PC via Zoom to take snap of hand written notes and paste in the jupyter notebooks.

@arghyaS Год назад

Hi Nick, thanks for this awesome video man. I am a research scholar and I came to know about zettlr from this video. I am in love with this software now, I have been looking for an app like this for months and you did this for me. Thanks again... All videos of yours are awesome!!

@TheLinuxEXP Год назад

Thank you!

@CotyTernes Год назад

I would have really liked a comparison of all of these on the metric of how many layers you can have. Multiple people I know rely on numerous OneNote features, but the one they require the most is at least 5 layers of organization: Notebook > Section > Subsection > Page >Subpage

@RichardJActon Год назад

Trilium probably 'nests' the best in terms of having multiple layers of hierarchical organisation as it can go arbitrarily deep. You can also 'focus' any level of note so it appears as the top level of organisation in the navigation panel on the left making it easier to navigate in deeply nested trees

@benj6964 Год назад

I use plain markdown files (or sometimes just plain text), syncronised across my devices with syncthing, and of course vim as an editor. I've added a few functionnalities to vim in order to mange a calendar-like file.

@vensirestudios Год назад

My wife and I use Simple Note to mark/share between each other. Can be used on mobile and on computers by logging in. As the name states it's quite simple. But nice for quick note sharing.

@DevAngelo Год назад

I've been on Joplin for 7 months, it's pretty great.

@saito450 Год назад

Nice video!😎

@summerishere2868 Год назад

cherrytree doesn't fully replace it but it is good enough for me. I like that it is simple, opensource, lightweight and cross platform.

@alexxx4434 Год назад

A calassical two-pane Outliner. I bet it was influenced by TreePad. There is a little known great outliner for Androind, called Halna Outliner, but it's not open-source.

@AAAMGGG Год назад

I' ve used Trillium as a backup note-taking to my Joplin. I use only local Trillium notes to note linux commands and keyboard shortcuts and it is pretty competent.

@AAAMGGG Год назад

and yeah I know, write it with double 'l' all the time for some reason.

@lucymorrison Год назад

I know it’s closed source and Apple-only but I LOVE Bear. It’s fast, it’s beautiful, it’s organised and it just works.

@thomasatkins Год назад

while not open-source, Obsidian does have support for handrwitten notes via the excalidraw plugin. I found out like a month ago that it even supports pressure sensitive writting

@thomasatkins Год назад

also obsidian has a very useful mobile app on ios and android

@-aexc- Год назад

yeah its decent but, unless I'm missing something, excalidraw has a fixed canvas size which is a dealbreaker

@thomasatkins Год назад

@Radha I don't think that it is limmited in size. You can scroll and zoom in and out. I just tried using the obsidian plugin and I was able to make a massive document.

@experimental0000 Год назад

Another awesome vid

@frederickwood9116 Год назад

Always wanted to know the answer to this one. Thanks

@IlfarKhuzin Год назад

There are another very-very good note taking app called StandardNotes, which keeps all your notes end-to-end encrypted and backend for it. And apps are present for all popular platforms as well.

@Private-GtngxNMBKvYzXyPq Год назад

Joplin seems to be a good alternative. Thank you for covering this subject.

@jeratzel Год назад

Hey Nick just a PSA, Obsidian is not open source. I know, it's a shocker and it's really a common mistake because the whole platform feels so open. But no source, sadly. Maybe you could pin a comment with that correction? It's important for some people.

@TheLinuxEXP Год назад

Yeah I assumed it was and didn’t double check! My bad!

@gmt1 Год назад

I've been using Joplin on 3 devices synced to a free Dropbox account for years. Never had any issues whatsoever.

@lucasderooy Год назад

Two years ago, when I was studying physics, I used "write by stylus labs" Its super obscure, but back then, it was the only one that really suited my needs Its very simple and only takes handwritten notes. Now I never take hand written notes anymore

@jatinsehrwt Год назад

I am using Joplin for over an year, I can say it is one of the best alternative of onenote and evernote. Also what I found with note taking apps is that you don't need so much fancy stuff, just JOT it down with linking capabilities.

@Gilded30 9 месяцев назад

personally I use joplin for notes since I like the sync feature in all my systems (work laptop, home dual boot computer and android phone) and I learned that i can use another editor like neovim in order to look at my notes so thats another plus, I can edit them in neovim and look at them using neovim or joplin app on my phone

@jiristefka3177 Год назад

3:45 obsidian has an Android app as well. If you don't want to pay for sync, you can find it manually, with Nextcloud for example.

@marcelinomartinez2441 Год назад

I have used Obsedian, but I'm making to transition to MarkText which is open source and it works really well.

@ronm6585 Год назад

Thank you.

@ruben6295 Год назад

I use Logseq for school since 1 year and it's really incredible the only feature missing is a good syncing system

@uzairhaider1016 9 месяцев назад

I use Obsidian although its not open source I think. the main reason is that it has many plugins/extensions, I generally make todo list for my daily work .I have separate note for every project. then I also use it to make notes for example I have whole Redux toolkit notes, ReactJS notes. I use Megasync and I created my Vault in megasync folder so I can have a syncing feature without paying extra.

@eruno_ Год назад

Joplin was my long time favourite personally

@JohnM5583 Год назад

Hi, I am also looking for a function of OneNote that was not mentioned: while searching OneNote it also provides results in handwritten notes and also scrubs text from pictures. I am now using Nebo and OneNote but rly would like to switch to something that combines those two...

@antonioc.4812 Год назад

I use OpenBoard . It is simple to use and it is very good to do lessons. It is available for Windows, macOS and Linux and of course it is open source.

@prashantchanchal2743 Год назад

OneNote makes it easy to customize the notebooks like a big canvas, that is the main reason I like it. You can move images in an (almost)infinite space and start writing anywhere while still offering the standard formatting options, making it very versatile for almost any type of note taking. This is the feature I mainly find missing from lot of the mentioned alternatives. Please let me know if alternatives also offer the same thing.

@bettyswollocks7217 Год назад

Yes Prashant you nailed it, that's the reason I'm 'stuck' with OneNote. I tried Evernote way back and as soon as I found that I couldn't move images and text around on the canvas like you can in OneNote, that was bye bye Evernote. If there's an alternative as powerful as OneNote in that respect I'd also love to hear about it. However, the one thing that continually frustrates me about OneNote is the poor search. It doesn't remember previous searches and it's easy to click on something and lose your search string, so you have to enter it again, aagh! IMHO the whole search interface is just clunky and unfriendly. And it's terrible at finding exact phrases, even if you wrap them in double quotes. I think though Microsoft is just not good at search in it's PC products. The search in Visual Studio is poor as well. It's not like I'm asking for much, if they just made their search as good as that in Notepad++ I'd be happy! :)

@whoknows3455 Год назад

I use Xournal++ and its UI is modern if you use the more up to date flatpak version :) I like it because I can write in the pdf. I use it for my math courses. BTW I love your videos.

@oscs4556 Год назад

I just standard notes now - end to end encryption by default and it’s open source and it’s has auto sync too. Also it’s cross platform on Linux , Mac , windows and iOS .

@LinuxPlayer9 Год назад

My friend who was using OneNote used it for handwriting math formulas sometimes, and OneNote converted those handwritings to formulas. I didn't see something like that anywhere else so I was wondering if it exists somewhere else. Anyway when I need to write things I most often use LibreOffice as it has the features I need mostly. Good video anyway, I may want to take a look at obsidian and see how good it is for myself

@omegaroguelp Год назад

Ive suggested that as a feature for rNote, im hoping its gonna get added in the future

@databug Год назад

I use Notion. I discovered it on Windows but its also available on Linux as well as Mobile.

@aetherspoon Год назад

This has always been my white whale for migrating to Linux; I've been so hopelessly dependent on OneNote for my non-gaming laptop needs that it was always a nightmare to use Linux and search fruitlessly for something that does everything that I use OneNote for. I use it on multiple devices (I run my own NextCloud, so I don't mind having something else sync it for me) including both Desktop (Win/Lin) and Mobile (Android) platforms. I use both pen input and typing, I integrate a lot of web content (I'm using it primarily for roleplaying purposes and need lots of references), my note taking style can be gently described as pure anarchy (with lots of "unusual" positioning of notes on a page), and even more complex pages such as entire character sheets. I also share some of these pages with other people (read-only). Heck, even in these examples you can see the same problems - nothing that does it all. At the moment, I'm using both Joplin and Xournal++, but I'm pretty unhappy with what I have. Markdown-based note taking software tends to rigidly define where notes need to be on a page, similar to what a word processor does, rather than moving itself out of your way to take notes the way you want. In Joplin, I need to create a defined table in order to have content on two sides of a page; in OneNote I can just click wherever the heck I want to put a note there. I can do the character sheet thing in Xournal++ by putting a PDF in the background of a note page and I gain the "click wherever I want", but that's not integrated into the same application I'm using for typing up notes, so things get muddled and lost. Searching is a nightmare because I don't know whether the note I'm looking for was taken in Joplin or Xournal++ (and if it was in the latter, I'll never find it). The import feature of Joplin for web clippings works, to an extent, but requires an awful lot of setup for no good (to the end user; I understand what it is doing and why) reason and still has some issues. None of this setup lets me easily share pages with other people, but that's more because it requires them to install a pair of applications to open any of it rather than having an almost-passable web viewer like OneNote. Even though I've mostly migrated at this point, every time I try to take notes in Joplin I just ask myself why I'm putting myself through this pain when OneNote just worked for me. It is kind of like I need an unholy hybrid of NextCloud Notes, Joplin, Xournal++, and something to make Joplin give up on Markdown. :) Of course, I can't migrate to Linux anyway due to my new 2-in-1 (MS Surface Book 3) not supporting stylus input (or cameras for that matter) in Linux. Seriously, the prior models did, I didn't even think to check that on this one. If only there was a Linux-native 2-in-1 laptop with good stylus input.

@DaniAlva25 16 дней назад

I feel ya. OneNote and OneDrive are the main reasons I haven't nuked Windows and switched entirely to Linux. I wouldn't mind using the OneDrive web client and, although is a hassle, move the files manually to the cloud. Nevertheless, there is a solid option to integrate it using RClone, which at the moment I'm still researching. But like you said, finding a suitable way to use OneNote in Linux is just a pain in the ass. So far, the best option would rely on using a Virtual Machine, but again, it's still a hassle. By the way, have you looked into the Github Linux Surface project? They say that they have stylus support for your model. No camera support yet, though.

@aetherspoon 16 дней назад

@@DaniAlva25 I actually ended up selling that tablet; the project must have completed support for the pen after I sold it off. Which is good, but also sad.

@mrstryfe Год назад

Ive been using joplin for a LONG time

@zenitsu2989 Год назад

Recently found out about Bundled Notes, not open source but good for quick notes and web clipping.

@HansjuergWuethrich Год назад

There is also Nimbus Note (Which is great!). But i personally i use Google Keep in combination with Drive and Google Docs wich is working great together.

@pikaa-si9ie Год назад

There's also Saber for foss handwritten note, it's written in flutter so it's available for all platforms. But it's in beta tho

@oussamabouchebak6877 Год назад

My setup is a bit weird but it works perfectly for my needs, Im using Zettlr and pointing it to the Nextcloud notes folder (locally), this takes care of both syncing and editing notes on the web (with the nextcloud web interface), and for the mobile app Im using Quillnote from the fdroid which also Nextcloud for syncing and rocks a pretty UI and has most of the features you can ask of a notes app. I used to love joplin but the clutter turns the quick note taking into writing an article, its even worse on the mobile app

@BashingDinosaurs Год назад

Thanks for this info. Since moving from Windows to Ubuntu, the OneNote web experience is bad enough to force me to move to an alternative. I think Obsidian with Syncthing might be my best option. I need Windows, Linux and Android apps so I think this should be possible. And there are ways to export my OneNote into an Obsidian vault too.

@joli22 Год назад

the UI of xournal++ is pretty good when you use it with the right themes

@azatecas Год назад

im a fan of Standard Notes with the free Milkdown Editor extension. mobile apps, syncing, open source and you can self host! although there are some paid features i wish were free. ill have to check out trilium

@ettoreatalan8303 Год назад

Being able to create mind maps within notes would be a nice feature.

@siddheshgunjal1248 Год назад

This video was a big help. I have been looking for a replacement for onenote from a long time. I have been using rnote as an alternative to Microsoft whiteboard (I'm much more of a board guy than PPT) and it has been working good. But I'm having difficulty while exporting in PDF to share with students in some cases (especially when notes are big and long). Do you know any more alternative to Microsoft whiteboard that can export handwritten notes to PDF/PNG?

@amaralbc Год назад

There's one use case - and a pretty big one - that makes it hard to replace OneNote: iPad for college. You go to class, take notes with the pencil, then you go home study for tests on your computer. OneNote keeps your mark-ups synced like many others, but it also searches the handwritten notes, and lets you convert to typed texts if you want. If you have a MacBook there are lots of other options that are even better, like Notability, where you can even record the professor speaking while taking notes, with audio and writing synced for studying later. It's all about the convenience of getting things done using one app instead of using one for writing, one for typing, one for recording, than manually dealing with so much stuff. OneNote is great in this regard for non-mac users. And the web version works quite well to be fair, it's Microsoft but it's a great product.

@robertob.8160 Год назад

Thank you very much, I was blinded by Obsidian popularity, but now I know there are very good open source alternatives. It's important to note Obsidian isn't open source, I couldn't find the source code anyware. Now I can explore very good alternatives that are also opensource. The best thing about this new trend is that all are based on markdown and you can change application easily. Keep up the amazing work.