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What is the closest to Google Keep but self hosted?

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Google's not going to deprecate Keep, but if they do, you can be sure there'll be a deprecation schedule and many export tools written with a lot of gnashing of teeth. It's not going to suddenly disappear on you.

Not sure why you're so confident in Google, they don't have the track record. At best you'll maybe get a year notice. If it doesn't actively generate money there is little incentive for them keep things around

At best a year? That's plenty of time!

from a android user's perspective i used to use google keep all the time before i got privacy concerned and I still see a whole lot of people from my friends and family using google keep. I can assume it's true for a large quantity. I don't think a company like google would stop this type of service where they can get a large amount of personal data users just leave opened.

I’ve never seen a Google product with users disappear without plenty of notice. Takeout has a pretty easy to extract format for keep too.

It doesn’t make it on the list of likely targets for me personally.

Now that you write this I fully expect that they shutdown Keep in the next couple of months

Surprised to see Obsidian not being the top recommendation, I switched to it recently and am loving it. I use SyncThing to sync my notes between all my devices for free.

No self-hostable sync.

You can use obsidian to just edit files on disk and handle syncing yourself (eg. With Nextcloud, syncthing, Dropbox)

The company explicitly says you can sync obsidian notes by yourself if you so wish. They offer a paid version but under the same conditions as everybody else. I also use SyncThing like the other person who replied and it works great. I really dig Obsidian.

If you have to sync by yourself, every text editor is "close to Google keep".

False

SyncThing works very well for Obsidian and is completely self hostable.

Although SyncThing on iOS isn't as nice as on Android.

I use combination of tools.

Write notes with some android wysiwyg editor, in text format;

Edit on desktop with notepad++;

on my linux setup gitosys with keys, so could exchange with git;

on android installed, what current work as cli interface with ssh and git, and just when need turn on network and do git commit; git fetch; git push; git merge, etc.

You can self host standardnotes.

https://standardnotes.com/help/47/can-i-self-host-standard-n...

Moved to standard notes from keep and I am stuck now. I find it repulsive.

There are a lot of things I don't like about it, especially search. What are the main things that repulse you?

Their code quality in general and application architecture in particular.

Quillpad should be pretty close, and has the option to sync with nextcloud https://github.com/quillpad/quillpad

I use Carnet with Nextcloud. It's not perfect, but I've found it to be serviceable. My biggest gripe is that I can't do indented checklists.

Me too, I just wish there was a way to see the notes on desktop as well

Markor+syncthing

+Zim for desktop integration (Markor supports Zim's text markup format)

Standard notes is FOSS E2EE and can be SH

It looks like you still need to subscribe for a premium account if you self host to unlock even checklists unless I'm wrong? $40 a year to self host seems a bit steep.

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