Hey everyone, I’m trying to replace most of the private owned app I use by FOSS ones, and today i’m pointing at notion.

I just use it as a way to organize my notes and use it both on my laptop and phone, and i’m looking for something that can have that fonctionnality.

I’ve already looked into a bunch of foss note taking apps but I didn’t see any that could do it. (maybe i didn’t look hard enough tho)

I’m willing to use syncthing or smth similar if needed.

do you have any recommendations? anyway, have a nice day and thanks to everyone making the internet/softwares more libre and accessible!

  • [object Object]@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 days ago

    Org-mode is especially great for people who like branchy outlines as their notes. It allows to jot down a note quickly and to move them around in the tree as the heart desires. I have thousands upon thousands of notes, mostly short one- or two-sentence long.

    Plus both Emacs and Orgzly allow some programmatic fiddling with the notes.

    The downside is that copying anything with links or formatting out of Org requires converting its markup to Markdown or whatever.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
      11·
      5 days ago

      The downside is that copying anything with links or formatting out of Org requires converting its markup to Markdown or whatever.

      The upside is by default org mode can export to markdown, and with Pandoc installed you can basically export to any file type known to humanity.

      • [object Object]@lemmy.world
        11·
        5 days ago

        Firstly, I don’t need my entire four-thousand-notes file be exported to Markdown.

        Secondly, that doesn’t mean that if Org used Markdown, exporting would be impossible.

        Copying from Org is objectively bothersome, because Org’s markup format is only used in Org and nowhere else.

        • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
          11·
          5 days ago

          It objectively isn’t bothersome, it only takes a handful of keystrokes to export to markdown or to any other format you want.

          I am sorry complaining about Org mode’s markdown format not being used elsewhere is absurd given how many extensibly options there are for Emacs built in even without adding in anything custom.

          No, the org mode file format is the most extensible, open, powerful file format for primarily text based notes ever made. You are simply wrong here, I am sorry.

          There are also apps that directly use the org mode file format such as Orgzly, Beorg and Orgro.

            • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
              11·
              5 days ago

              At some point you might want to print your notes, publish them on the web, or share them with people not using Org. Org can convert and export documents to a variety of other formats while retaining as much structure (see Document Structure) and markup (see Markup for Rich Contents) as possible.

              The libraries responsible for translating Org files to other formats are called backends. Org ships with support for the following backends:

              ascii (ASCII format)

              beamer (LaTeX Beamer format)

              html (HTML format)

              icalendar (iCalendar format)

              latex (LaTeX format)

              md (Markdown format) odt (OpenDocument Text format) org (Org format) texinfo (Texinfo format) man (Man page format)

              Users can install libraries for additional formats from the Emacs packaging system. For easy discovery, these packages have a common naming scheme: ox-NAME, where NAME is a format. For example, ox-koma-letter for koma-letter backend. More libraries can be found in the ‘org-contrib’ repository (see Installation).

              Org only loads backends for the following formats by default: ASCII, HTML, iCalendar, LaTeX, and ODT. Additional backends can be loaded in either of two ways: by configuring the org-export-backends variable, or by requiring libraries in the Emacs init file. For example, to load the Markdown backend, add this to your Emacs config:

              (require 'ox-md)

              https://orgmode.org/manual/Exporting.html

              There you go, maybe try reading a bit about the thing before commenting on it?

              • [object Object]@lemmy.world
                11·
                5 days ago

                It’s remarkable how you continue to trudge ahead while being objectively wrong about everything. Your opinion is absurd, and everything you cited is incongruous to the discussion. Try saying anything in any way relevant next time. Again, not sorry in the slightest.