Hello all,

I’m looking for an alternative to my current notes app notally. It’s a great app but I am only able to make to-do lists or plain text notes, and I can’t combine both (like plain text with check boxes sometimes). I would like to automate some notes too so I think app with markdown support will allow me to do both.

What I’m looking for :

  • FOSS
  • Markdown support
  • Good looking with tiling view
  • SIMPLE, I already have Joplin for work purpose but it’s too heavy, I want an app that opens instantly like google notes or apple notes (or notally lol).

Do you have some recommendations ?

Thanks a lot

  • Kaul@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    18 hours ago

    Does Joplin really take a long time to start up compared to the rest? I just got it downloaded and synced with my server yesterday and so far it opens up almost instantly every time.

    • Ostrogoth@jlai.luOP
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I mean, it takes only 3 seconds to open lol but it feels like it’s not designed to take notes on-the-go like groceries lists.

    • Ostrogoth@jlai.luOP
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Thanks for your suggestion, it looks great but no tiling view and I don’t find it good looking…

  • heliotrope@retrofed.comEnglish
    5·
    22 hours ago

    Markor is, by far, the best.

    They did start accepting AI-generated contributions a while ago, but the latest release (2.16.1) is still clean.

    In addition to Markdown docs and to-dos, it also supports Org-Mode, AsciiDoc, ZimWiki, todo.txt, and (of course) plaintext.

    However, it does not have a tiled view.

    • haverholm@kbin.earth
      1·
      15 hours ago

      Isn’t tiling just the OS split screen? You’ll excuse the dumb question, I barely use multitasking features as it is.

      • heliotrope@retrofed.comEnglish
        1·
        15 hours ago

        I thought OP meant being able to see notes arranged in a grid with text previews (á la Google Keep), rather than the usual filename list.

        If it’s multitasking tiling they want, then Markor does do that, as it supports multiple windows.

        • Ostrogoth@jlai.luOP
          1·
          3 hours ago

          This is what I mean, I find this view more modern ! Thanks for your suggestion.

  • araneae@beehaw.org
    3·
    21 hours ago

    Markor makes you pick a title before you can type and the quick notes feature doesn’t quite ameliorate the issue for me so I specifically went looking for the same and found one called Markleaf on F Droid that does what I want. It has a nice tagging feature.

    • Ostrogoth@jlai.luOP
      1·
      3 hours ago

      It looks perfect but I don’t find how to make tiling/grid view ? I enable it in settings but nothing happened.

    • Ostrogoth@jlai.luOP
      2·
      2 hours ago

      This is the only one that allow me to check boxes in lists after creating combined notes ! Thanks !

  • guillem@aussie.zone
    4·
    1 day ago

    For me the golden standard for “simple” are Fossify and SecUSo. You can find all their apps on F-Droid.

    I haven’t tried their specific apps for notes, so I’m not sure about the bullet points 2 and 3 but maybe they are worth a try.