Instead of cherrytree, check out QOwnNotes. It stores notes as plaintext markdown files, has optional Own/Nextcloud integration, and looks better within Plasma.
I made the switch last week after some gtk bug/misconfiguration prevented cherrytree from starting and am quite pleased yet. Plaintext files are a huge plus compared to cherrytrees rtf/xml format!
QOwnNotes After trying all of those : QOwnNotes my favourite now.
https://www.qownnotes.org
- High Performance ( Developed using QT+ C++)
- A lot of awesome plugins , and very easy to write plugins.
- Powerful Features like Wiki-like organization and Browser extensions.
I use qownnotes https://www.qownnotes.org - has markup and dark mode althugh its dark mode may not be fully dark depending on your system theme :S
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supports nextcloud/owncloud as well
Qownnotes
https://www.qownnotes.org/installation/raspberry-pi-os.html
The interface can be easily tweaked cosmetically and panels.
Data can be synced via cloud servers (I use nextcloud - it is compatible with Nextcloud Notes on Web and Android).
The best multiple multiplatform Notational Velocity/Nvalt look alike with ongoing developer care and love is QOwnNotes https://www.qownnotes.org/. A mature and very stable app. Very configurable. I use the Linux version in Single Column layout. By disabling un-needed panels you can get a very Notational Velocity UX as it uses similar keyboard shortcuts and it's very fast. A Windows version is supported but I haven't used it yet.
Here's a list of some other note-taking apps (open source) that you may find interesting.
Turtle is an open source note-taking application designed to help you keep track of your notes, passwords, bookmarks, and images. It runs flawlessly on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It includes extensions for the Google Chrome and Firefox web browsers.
Turtle includes advanced features such as client-side encryption, markdown support, tagging, powerful search, and sharing, as well as browser extensions with clipboard support, TeX math support, file attachment, and RTL (Right-to-Left) support.
Although Laverna is a simple note-taking application with a simple user interface, it offers many features, including note synchronization and backups to Dropbox and remote services, markdown editing, distraction-free mode, to-do lists, code highlighting, note import and export, and powerful encryption.
In agreement with MPL 2.0, Laverna is available as open source. Laverna runs on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. It also offers a self-hosted version.
3- QOwnNotes
QOwnNotes is also a free open-source desktop note application, which supports OwnCloud and NextCloud. It supports markdown, customizable shortcuts, vim mode, Evernote imports.
QOwnNotes comes with built-in encryption in order to keep notes private, which is very useful when combined with its portability, since it can work directly from the USB drive.
QOwnNotes has been released for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.
I did an extensive look into these a while back. I went with https://www.qownnotes.org/ which is incredibly good in so many aspects.
Yes, https://www.qownnotes.org/ can do all you need (but 6) if you use it together with e.g. Nextcloud.
For 7 see https://www.qownnotes.org/getting-started/browser-extension.html For 8, everything is offline. See https://www.qownnotes.org/getting-started/concept.html.
I just saw "qownnotes" recently which looks promising.
I am using Joplin currently which I like. Although I wish that the notes were more easily readable outside of the Joplin apps. Joplin saves the files with UUID filenames and they contain a lot of metadata alongside the actual notes.
>I was toying around with CherryTree, but I can't find any information on syncing capability with Android devices.
Cherrytree stores the notes in an SQLite database or an XML file. You can synchronise this with any service such as Dropbox. However, you must ensure that two computers do not access the file at the same time.
It would be easier to use QOwnNotes. The notes are saved as individual Markdown files and can therefore be synchronised more easily on several computers. If you use Nextcloud, QOwnNotes offers an extra integration for this.
> Quickly write notes/tasks
Qownnotes + Any cloud (nexcloud/synchting/seafile)
I like QOwnNotes a lot. It's free software, very customizable, you can organise your notes in tree-style directories by subjects, interviews, projects, add tags, links...it has many options. It uses Markdown just as Reddit.
eva, the best calculator for terminal. Like bc but much better.
QOwnNotes, note taking, tracking, todo lists, nextcloud integration and so on. I had to switch to flatpak from AUR because of how often these are coming out.
linux-xanmod is linux kernel similar to ZEN in goals of being a desktop-tweaked kernel, but it features ClearLinux patchset among other things, and I had an amazing experience with it.
Check out QOwnNotes which syncs with your Nextcloud installation and gives you the ability to select a pre-configured layout to get started right away with varying degrees of complexity https://www.qownnotes.org/
J'utilise QOwnNotes synchronisé avec mon cloud Nextcloud (hébergé par la mère zaclys), ou plus récemment j'ai découvert Zettlr.
J'ai testé pas mal d'autres outils de notes (libres !), mais ceux sont ces deux là que je préfère.
La solution QOwnNotes + Nextcloud a l'avantage de disposer d'une application Android "Notes" (dispo sur FDroid a minima), et évidemment d’être synchronisé sur plusieurs machines (perso et boulot par exemple).
Ça peut répondre à ton besoin, par example en créant une note par sujet. J’ai moi même des notes "bars", "livres", "musique", ...
Gonna go out on a limb here and suggest https://www.qownnotes.org It has autosave, excellent sharing capabilities with Nextcloud, integrates well with KDE, has Evernote import, Markdown preview, and is pretty easily scriptable.
Taking nothing away from either Vim or Emacs (I have a slight preference for Vim), but for a "quick start" Qownnotes is pretty hard to beat, IMHO. Not great for programming, but it works well as a note-taking app.
It's a shame that you had problems with Zim. I used it for many years without a hiccup; it was very solid.
For the past year I've been using qownnotes. It also stores notes in text files, but uses standard markdown instead of the unique markup language used by Zim.
I also wouldn't use any notetaking system that didn't store notes as text files.
I'm using QOwnNotes (with the minimal layout and dark theme). I tried Notable as well but I was pretty much searching for a simplenote replacement and QOwnNotes is much closer to that - for one, the notes autosave once you finish editing them and leave it idle for a while, and when you save the note, you're not 'ejected' to top of the markdown preview that replaces the editable plaintext, instead you stay in the same place and can continue editing the note.
For all KDE/Qt users: there's https://www.qownnotes.org/ . Same idea: each note is a markdown/plaintext file. No pen/tablet support I think, but own/nextcloud syncing built-in (fully optional).
check out QOwnNotes. Every note is a .md (other formats possible i believe) file in the directory tree, it has a two-panel view (md and html preview), search, tags, and own/nextcloud integration (optional).
You're very welcome. There are hopes that the Raspberry Pi4 will have better support for Electron apps but it won't be able to be tested properly until a 64bit OS is released for it.
If you're still determined to get the setup you're wanting, you may have better luck trying out QOwnNotes. Looks like they support syncing with Nextcloud and even mention the Raspberry Pi in their installation instructions.
Best of luck!
I've been hopping from tool to tool and am currently using QOwnNotes. It's cross-platform, creates markdown files, has folder structures and tags. You can cross-link notes so you don't have to find them manually. It has NextCloud for syncing, but I just save my files in my google drive which syncs them for me.
I don't think it's as quite nice as Bear, but I've been using QOwnnotes to replace nValt which I was using a similar function - bonus points as it works on Linux and Windows which I use at work. It has Owncloud/Nextcloud sync, but with this off, it saves all files to the PC as markdown (or text files) and has the option for different fonts for different sections.
It has a preview, but can be turned off and can be as minimal or busy as you want (i.e. if you just want it looking like nValt it's no issue, but you can also have tags and preview if you want.
Ah I was in your shoes once switching over to Linux mint from MS. I use qownnotes it's a text editor and I sync over a nextcloud server running on a Raspberry pi its not bad.
For markdown, Remarkable isn't wysiwyg but has a live preview as does retext and of course the wonderful qownnotes.
Fortunately, markdown is dead simple so the lack of wysiwyg isn't a problem
Unfortunetly linux does not have onenote client, otherwise I would use that mostly. Nothing comes close to the features and comfort of onenote :( and if you go for web version it loses its appeal
So, what I use is not centralized cross platform all in one solution, but several things
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files too.Shortcoming is not that great android app. You need to jump through owncloud hoops to get it working and even then it does not do subfolders, just the notes in the root. * google keep and google calendar, for daily related stuff that need remainders and general quick organization and task to remember * bookstack - web based, you can run it on raspberrypi or on a VPS. Using it for serious documentation that more people need access to and be able to make add to it, not just some daily quick notes. Something that looks good and modern, where even moron can work, where history of changes is kept and something that is your hub for long term information organization and storage.