I currently use zim-wiki for structured notes. It's also plain text/folder based. It doesn't use markdown though.<p>I'm glad to see this is offline local first. I like that it can be made portable too. It seems more complicated than zim-wiki (but that might just be my knowledge of zim).<p>I'll be taking a look. Hopefully when the pro version comes they don't restrict useful functionality.
Related:<p><i>VNote, an open source markdown note-taking app with Wiki page</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23547056">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23547056</a> - June 2020 (1 comment)<p><i>Show HN: Viki, a simple Wiki page in Markdown from notebook of VNote</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18556938">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18556938</a> - Nov 2018 (1 comment)<p><i>Show HN: VNote 2.0 – PlantUML editing via Preview Tunnel</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18049100">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18049100</a> - Sept 2018 (9 comments)<p><i>Show HN: VNote, a fresh Markdown note-taking app</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16149821">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16149821</a> - Jan 2018 (86 comments)
I like the idea of not using heavy electron UIs, but really, I does not matter much nowadays, at least for me.
Important features are synchronized notes, with mobile and desktop support, and syncing should be end to end encrypted. I should be able to link a note to another, include some media, and use markdown, that is easily importable/exportable. I still to this day couldn’t find a good foss alternative to Joplin with WebDAV or Joplin Server (or cloud offerings).
This is "Chinese". I personally don't mind, especially if it is open source. But I've seen another China (and electron) based note-taking app vilified for this reason.<p>FYI It is Siyuan [1]. What is unique about it is the logseq-like block-level granularity (ref/embed/query) and (soon) the notion-like databases.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan">https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan</a>
What is note-taking exactly? Like notes from meetings, or like a replacement for a journal, or? Why not just use a text editor?<p>I’ve been operating for years without a “note-taking” solution. What am I missing?
Nice, but as others pointed out, this uses a webview to render the underlying text. My note-taking app, Plume[1] is written in Qt C++ and QML, without resorting to webview, rather, rendering using my own custom QML components. Plume's model is written in C++ while the view in QML, allowing for a very performant (benchmarks on the website) yet fluid experience with beautiful animations.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.get-plume.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.get-plume.com/</a>