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Yet another request for a note taking app (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Hello! I'm still not satisfied with my note taking app. I tried dozen of them, read tons of lists on random blogs on the internet, without any success. I'll try to ask you then.

I'm looking for a note taking app with just this 3 features:

richtext/WYSIWYG (i don't want to write plain text and then press a button to see it rendered)
it has to support CHECKBOXES! Most of the apps I tried does not support them, or supported them only if all the note was a checklist. I don't want a checklist, I want a note where I can put some checkbox inside!
FOSS and active

The one I'm currently using is obsidian, but it's not FOSS and it feels very overcomplicated for a simple note apps.

Any suggestion is welcome!

EDIT: forgot to mention, I'm talking about Android XD

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[–] geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Logseq is very very similar to obsidian but is FOSS.

Supports checkboxes

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's not WYSIWYG, though, it uses markdown (like Lemmy/Reddit). I prefer markdown since I don't want to fiddle with UI buttons while typing, but it's not what OP is asking for.

OP, why do you want WYSIWYG (on mobile)? I could see it, maybe, on desktop, but a note taking app should be focused on efficient input, imho, so markdown just makes more sense to me. Triple-# for an h3 is way faster than navigating to a Style menu and clicking Heading 3 in a UI dropdown (or whatever).

Regardless, I like Logseq so much that it's the first open source project I regularly contribute to financially. It's a game changer for me and managing my ADHD across 6 devices. (Lots of different work and personal machines/devices).

[–] geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 months ago

I would argue that it is as close as you can get to WYSIWYG without being it. Logseq works with blocks, which in most cases are only a line or two long. Every block on the page, except the one you're actively clicked on /working on are WYSIWYG.

There's no rendering etc, you just click off the block and you see it

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Triple-# for an h3 is way faster than navigating to a Style menu and clicking Heading 3 in a UI dropdown (or whatever).

of course it is, and ideally if the app supports it I'd use it more than the button. the WYSIWYG thing is not in the input, but rather in what is displayed while I type: if I type ###<space>, I want the line to become a title, hiding the ### imediately, not after I click a "render" button

for instance, on desktop marktext checks all my points. I'm looking for a mobile app with similar features. The mobile version of Marktext will take some time to come out sadly

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago

It looks like it's on the road map at least

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I downloaded the fdroid app but... I'm not able to use checkboxes. If I type

- something

it is not converted into a bullet list

- [ ] something
[ ] something
[] something

are not converted to checklists
and if I click on the checklist icon in the toolbar LATER appears instead of a checkbox... am I missing something?

[–] geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

In the block, the first word should be TODO Then when you click off it, it adds a checkbox at the start

Everything is already a bullet list, that's the logseq design, so if you also want numbering then use the command key / and search for numbering

Hope that helps!