VNote: A pleasant note-taking platform (opens in new tab)

Another Zim-Wiki user here -- been using it for something over 5 years, now, and have yet to find anything that could replace it for me. That it doesn't use (the bloody horrible) Markdown is a feature, not a deficiency.

I used Zim for over a decade but recently migrated to Obsidian because of the mobile support. Definitely a big change but I can say that after a year it has worked for me and I don't miss Zim as much as thought would.

How much would you like to pay for a such an app? Let's say, 2 USD per month? What if it's FOSS, but you are using official company's servers?

I don't like electron bloat but notes are something I absolutely need to be on every platform for portability, I'm willing to accept the trade off. To be fair to electron, the software I use (trilium), runs like a dream.

Do you mean encryption decryption happens locally of each individual note and only the encrypted string is stored online? How would you trust to sync the decryption keys across devices?

If you don't require support for teams, it sounds like you might like AnyType. Think Notion, but FOSS and p2p.

https://anytype.io/

It would be trivially easy to fake a free github account as being from the US. Not hiding the fact that they're Chinese makes me trust them more.

Genuinely curious…I get the trepidation of using a closed source product from China but if the code is open for all to inspect, what is the concern then?

IMO, notes are anything that's worth writing down.

I have cheatsheets full of Excel formulas for complex transformations. Without it, I'd be forced to look up the ad-ridden website I originally pulled it from, on a work computer that doesn't have an adblocker.

Same goes for stuff I do rarely enough that I need to look up instructions each time. For example, I don't deploy websites except for personal use, so I usually need to re-read Digital Ocean docs to set up my stack on a Linux VM, assign SFTP users etc. Those articles are extremely long and full of related page links. Once I have my core setup steps down, I can just put those into my note.

Besides that, I have notes with images for clothes shopping. Instead of wasting time browsing in-store, I can quickly see whether they have any of the 10-12 types of clothing I usually buy (tops, bottoms, shoes, 4 subcategories for each).

To use this app's (peculiar) descriptor, it is more "pleasant" for those who deal with a lot of text "information". This includes (but is not limited to) students, academics.... At the core level, it is about using many "doc files" without juggling between multiple windows, file managers, etc. Then, in addition, some may feel the (real?) need for other features. You can look at this extensive list [1] and see if you feel you are "missing" any of them, although feelings could be deceptive :)

[1] https://noteapps.info/features

A couple things happen in notes for me:

* Practice through writing: a way of consolidating what I learn by writing about it in an environment I don’t care about editing.

* Chicken scratch: Small important todos or trigger words to remind me to remember or do something

* Spaced repetition: memorizing elementary concepts

* Journal: this is mainly therapeutic and happens with pen and paper or something and is largely throwaway once it is written.

Same here but I have seen people are/were using evernote, Microsoft one note etc for

1. Note sync across devices 2. Easy search 3. As to-do list, read/use it in future 4. Capture audio/video/images from mobile 5. Store visiting card etc

You can also enable vi editing in Obsidian. I don't think you can enable vi navigation though.

I'm interested to hear what the advantage over Obsidian is?

Unlike obsidian, it doesn't appear to have a plugin system (yet?)

I would be more surprised about being Linux/windows first there is a plethora of mac only notes apps.

It’s Electron.

Your note-taking app is not released. While I appreciate that I can download and self compile the premium version of your other Notes app (for some reason my build turns out to be a glitchy buggy mess. That's probably QT being QT), Plume is not released, so is not an alternative to anything.

Seen you pop up multiple times in a variety of threads here mentioning your app.

My initial thought now is it’s starting to feel spammy. Might wanna lay off a bit