i want to move away from using discord as a place to store and organise all kinds of links, text and images. its just come to me how easily i could lose access to it, not just by being offline.

ideally, said program has to:

-work offline

-have android and pc support, especially linux.

-have ability to export data into easily viewable formats

if something satisfies most but not all requirements, please still write about it, it can still be useful.

    • kraniax@lemmy.wtf
      2·
      9 months ago

      this is an amazing obsidian alternative that I haven’t seen recommended yet! I always here about logseq but I don’t like it due to it’s bullet format. And this is just great. I wish they had an electron install option tho, but still pretty great.

        • notfromhere@lemmy.one
          1·
          9 months ago

          It gave me some issue about indexdb not available. Maybe it was a flag I turned off thinking I was making my phone more secure. Probably something I did.

    • pensivepangolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I’ve never seen this before but it looks excellent! I’ll have to spin an instance up to tinker with this weekend!

  • INeedMana@lemmy.world
    71·
    9 months ago

    Maybe obsidian? It’s not open source, unfortunately, but

    • works offline
    • has android and linux clients
    • the files are markdown, so you don’t even need to export these
    • the clients render the files so it can look better than plain txt files
    • Mikelius@lemmy.ml
      3·
      9 months ago

      Also wish it was open source, but I do trust it. I tend to run Wireshark initially on all new closed source apps I install and obsidian feels truly trustworthy from my perspective. And the power behind it, while keeping the files super simple, is amazing… Combine it with syncthing and it’s a win!

      • ShitpostCentral@lemmy.world
        4·
        9 months ago

        I, too, was initially bummed about Obsidian not being open source, but the offline mode and the stylish markdown rendering eventually sold me.

        Plus, I set up SyncThing to sync my notes between my phone, server, and laptop. Now I have all my notes backed up and accessible on all my devices, without anything leaking to a 3rd party.

      • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        There is an open source chinese competitor, which seems quite good, but I always forget the name.

  • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    9 months ago

    Beeper actually had a ‘self message’ section just for notes like this. Idk if it works offline, but it supports linux and android (and most other major os’)

  • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
    1·
    9 months ago

    Since someone brought up Obsidian

    You want Joplin. It’s a markdown-based note-taking app, so it uses the same formatting as Discord. It’s locally installed so it works offline. It has a mobile version for iOS and android, but also has windows and linux apps. You can have multiple notebooks and multiple pages per notebook, so organization is easy as pie.

    Did I mention that it uses markdown, so it exports into multiple common formats; that I’m aware of: JEX (their own) which is just a TAR of the text files and some other metadata, RAW which is the untarred version, HTML, and PDF. It also embeds images, audio, video and PDFs.

    It’s also FOSS, and written in javascript using Electron, so it’s more-or-less easy to rewrite any part of it to suit your needs. It is also easy to work with plugins if need be, either from the community or writing your own.

    It syncs across clients using some common cloud data stores: Dropbox, onedrive, NextCloud, WebDAV, s3, and their own self-hosted Joplin Server to name the ones I know. Make sure to encrypt. The local files (resources) that are linked in the notes sync across devices too. Web resources stay as links.

    It also has a bajillion other features, but I’ll spare you.

    No, I’m not getting paid for this comment (Joplin Team, hmu), I just really like this app.

  • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml
    1·
    9 months ago

    Links: Wallabag, if you don’t want to self host it’s very cheap to have them do it.

    Text: Obsidian, but I’m also playing with Notesnook

    Images: Immich

    The text apps I listed are the only ones that could be considered “offline” though.

    • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
      1·
      9 months ago

      I have an issue with Obsisian bc it’s freemium. From what I could tell, there’s not a substantial difference from Joplin, which is FOSS.

      • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml
        1·
        9 months ago

        How is it freemium? You either pay them to “host” your files or you don’t. There is no other cost involved. IIRC, Joplin Cloud is a similar set up if you’re not equipped to selfhost or just don’t want to. It’s not FOSS, sure. But it’s a hierarchy of flat markdown files that can be read by any text editor on any OS. Making extracting your data very simple. Joplin stores your notes in a database file that requires an export or conversion function to get it back out, should they go out of business, etc. The database and the absolutely horrible Android app is what had me give up on Joplin entirely. If it’s working for you thats great. I’m certainly not trying to convince anyone. My use case requires easy, universal access to my notes. And .md files in folders is the lowest friction way I can think of. I’m currently paying for Sync, but once my year is up I’m going to try Syncthing again or the CouchDB sync plugin to save money. $8/mo is too much.

        • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
          1·
          9 months ago

          How is it freemium?

          It doesn’t cost money unless you want certain features, and it uses a proprietary license.

          You either pay them to “host” your files or you don’t… It’s not FOSS, sure.

          And that’s a dealbreaker for me (the non-FOSS license, not the “pay the devs” part)

          • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml
            1·
            9 months ago

            I guess my point is that in your example, Joplin is the same. The feature hidden behind a paywall is for them to host the sync function for you. Both Joplin and Obsidian offer that. Yet you can roll your own method using Syncthing, Nextcloud, etc for either of them. If it’s FOSS or not that’s a deal breaker, I get it. I gave Obsidian a pass in that regard since the file format is so wide open and universal.

            You may want to keep an eye out on these two as well. Both are missing some features now, but have them on their roadmap:

            Acreom

            • not open source yet, but planned
            • no E2EE, but planned
            • can’t self host the mobile app side of things, but the desktop versions work without an account and use markdown file format like Obsidian (and others)

            Notesnook

            • Open source
            • E2EE
            • Can’t self host yet, but on the roadmap. The dev confirmed to me that there would be no fee tacked on for self hosters once released, something that either Standard Notes or Simple Note does (can’t remember which).
  • Silejonu@kbin.social
    11·
    9 months ago

    For your links (I believe it works with files too), check out Heimdall. It’s not offline, but it’s FOSS and selfhosted.