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!
AppFlowy
It’s like obsidian (I hear) but FOSS. I love it and it’s by far the self hosted service I use most.
It stores your notes in a plain directory hierarchy of markdown files so you can just point a cron shell script at it to git add/commit/push at your desired internal and you’ve got history tracking/backups too
Edit: also provides a PWA so you can “install” it on your phone instead of always using a full browser.
Edit x2: includes a Lua interpreter so you can get scripty with it. I use that functionality more than I expected and I suck at Lua
Edit x3: and it auto synchs to each device when open with conflict detection. Full copy is stored local to each device, synched when possible
Lol
I just researched PWAs with this article.
PWAs aren’t a silver bullet, but when applied in the right contexts, they continue to offer undeniable benefits
Now you are telling me silverbullet(.md)
provides a PWA
Hehe. So PWAs aren’t a silver bullet but Silverbullet can be a PWA.
Is that one of those “all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares” type things?
I’ve been using a self-hosted Jotty instance, it’s been pretty great!
I spun up a test, and it doesn’t let you edit encrypted notes
:(. It’s so nice though, I might be willing to give it up e2ee for less sensitive data.
You can self host Anytype. It looks like notion, but is FOSS and total under your control.
Isn’t anytype source available
Seems to be the case:
https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-ts?tab=License-1-ov-file#readme
https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-kotlin?tab=License-1-ov-file#readme
The sync server is MIT though: https://github.com/anyproto/any-sync?tab=MIT-1-ov-file#readme
Interesting.



