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I was in search of a good cross-platform notes app. Like Evernote, but preferably free with the open data format. I concluded that for me, personally, emacs org-mode with notes files stored in the Dropbox folder turns out to be an optimal solution. YMMV.

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I agree: plain text is after all, easier to manage.

Personally, I've used Joplin [0] some months ago, and Im using QOwnNotes [1] now. Both are open source, cross platform, and can synchronize with Nextcloud. QOwnNotes may feel a bit faster since its written in Qt/C++ (Joplin is an Electron app).

However, I still find hard to write tables in Markdown manually.

[0]: https://joplinapp.org

[1]: https://www.qownnotes.org

I've been using https://notable.md/ for a while, works well for simple workflows.

I think that my Sciter.Notes (https://notes.sciter.com) will qualify that.

Notes are stored in local db yet notebooks in the db can be mapped on file folders (e.g. folder on DropBox containing html files - each note is a single HTML file).

The note db file can be protected/encrypted by OS means.

Windows/Mac/Linux.

Agreed. Sciter notes is a gem. It's fantastically fast. C-smile, congrats on writing this masterpiece. I wish you best of luck. If you found a biz model to support it and add features, it'd be great. So much low hunging fruit in a world of electron apps and a crowd (HN) that mostly hates them.

Same problem here. Resorted to keeping everything plain text after trying so many half-baked and sticky note taking apps that prevent your notes from being ported.

Currently using this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/marcador/nneoamjib...

Started as just adding bookmarks to your Dropbox, but now it lets you add plain text notes.

And it only has access to its own app directory--not your whole Dropbox!

After spending a lot of time testing out different apps, I ended up doing the same. Also orgzly for android works pretty well with org files stored on dropbox!

Joplin's (https://joplinapp.org/) whole shtick is basically being "open source evernote" in case anyone's wondering (can import from them and all).

Personally I'm having a good time with Tiddlywiki with a markdown plugin and nice context-of-backlinks setup (inspired by roamresearch.com )

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