Looking for an app for note-taking with the following features:

  • No ads ever
  • No nudges to upgrade, subscribe, unlock premium features, or any bullshit like that.
  • No recurring fee (ok paying up-front for the app)
  • Clean, simple interface

That’s it. I don’t need multimedia, multi-device syncing, cloud storage. I just need a place to write down ideas and grocery lists.

Recommendations?

  • Dodecahedron December@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Obsidian

    • text files stored in markdown on your device
    • no premium service to unlock features. You can buy sync and publishing if you want to, but there are no nags to purchase them.
    • you can roll your own sync solution you wanted to. Its just text files. Same goes with publishing.
    • community plugins if you want to extend it
    • desktop clients and ios clients
    • free forever

    https://obsidian.md/

  • someguy3@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    There is Google Keep.

    But if you want to degoogle, well I’m reading the thread. I’ve heard of Joplin (spelling?).

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      1 year ago

      I like quillpad from f-droid as my Google keep alternative. Pretty identical to keep aside from the online syncing.

  • Horsey@kbin.social
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    Notion has been pretty great so far; I recently moved there from Evernote. Only downside (for me) is that it’s based on electron.