What a garbage take. Use what you want, homie.

Recent convert myself. And now that I've experienced mail, calendar, notes, and file storage all in the same app (android, at least) I can't go back to separate apps.

I'd love to try it out but only self-hosted. And so far I can't get it spun up. To be clear, I'm sure that's a me problem. That said, the instructions are pretty spartan and a few commands to run and "that's it. you can now create an account and login!" but that doesn't work for me.

I currently have Immich running and it's good. But I've had two updates break my install, requiring hours of work to get it back to working reliably. They have a disclaimer that this can happen and isn't ready for production yet, so I don't fault them for that. I'm just on the hunt for something more reliable. Ente seems like it's been around a good while. I just need to figure out what I'm doing wrong. The S3 backend is a pretty great feature, imo.

Dang. Again? I know they have the disclaimer that it's not to be relied on for photo backup yet and thankfully I'm not, but it's so much better than any of it's peers that I'd love to ditch the other apps.

Im not certain in regards to security in this context. But any new features in Quillpad you'd miss. If that's important to you. Otherwise, keep on using quillnote instead!

Quillnote has been abandoned. Quillpad is the fork that has a somewhat active development, if that matters to you.

I'm extremely picky about Notes apps. I've tested so many Open source as well as closed source apps. I'll be interested in what others are using, but the features I want are:

• Cross platform (Android, Linux, and MacOS)
• Universal format - markdown is a bonus
• Good task handling with checklist support

So what I've settled with is Obsidian (not open source) due to its simplicity of reading and writing to a folder hierarchy of plain text files. But since it sucks at task and checklists, I've been using Quillpad. It only syncs with Nextcloud at the moment, but there is promise of plain text file and bring-your-own-sync-solution on the roadmap.

Notesnook is a nice app, but since it's all E2EE, there is no plain text without exporting your notes manually. Shame too because it handles tasks and checklists very nicely.

Honorable mention: Acreom it's not open source yet, but that is on the roadmap. It is local first and plain text files on desktop OSes...but not on Android, meaning of you want to sync between your desktop and mobile you have to use their cloud. And I don't want to do that.

Joplin gets mentioned constantly. But it adds weird metadata to every text file and changes the titles of the files to some garbled hexadecimal string, which makes it impossible to know what you're looking at at the file level. And the task management/checklists is awful. Android app is bad too. I'm sure I'll get hate for hating on the FOSS golden child, but that's ok. This is simply my opinion. Like I said I'm very picky.

It went great, actually. Very easy to build in. I did end up taking the bottom panel off to make part of the install easier. Cooling seems to be really solid. It can get a bit loud when gaming due to the way shape of the vent holes in the side of the case, but I usually have headphones on anyway.. Much quieter if I were to leave the right door off (CPU side), but obviously not an option. The thing is dead silent in normal usage, the fans only really kick on for me during game sessions.

• Habits
• Tasks
• Quillpad
• Firefox
• Bitwarden
• Immich
• Miniflux
• Wallabag (also testing Omnivore)

Any DE that looks remotely like Windows. My journey to Linux began with a seething hatred of the way Microsoft does pretty much anything. Including the Win10 UI. So when I jumped ship I wanted something completely different. I tried Gnome on a couple distros but ultimately landed on Pop!_OS and really like it!

Can't link directly to the plugin, but the github page for it is here

Yep, it's in the community apps store for free, though highly recommend throwing some money at the dev if you find it to be useful. I'm just barely scratching the service and it's pretty dang good.

Obsidian for sure. Look at the Excalidraw plugin for handwriting/drawing. It's quite good.

Following this because Nova is the only way of doing it that I've found. I even paid for Hermit premium and instead of a FF badge it's Hermit icon.

It feels like they're literally only there as a front for micro transactions, so I don't bother. I did try a few of the Netflix games since those are ad free, but still... Nothing seems to hold my interest.

For those but happy with the $50/yr tier, I received a discount offer at the end of my premium trial. Ended up being $25 and I think it's certainly worth that. That said, I'll self host it as soon as it's available.

Acreom is another in this segment of app that is very promising. It is not open source yet, but will be. And I do prefer the plain markdown file format of it and the likes of Obsidian compared to NN, but still a cool app.

You might look at these relative newcomers to this category of app...with some caveats for why I haven't switched from Obsidian.

1. Acreom - Not open source yet, but planned. Flat markdown files like Obsidian and Logseq. Dealbreaker for me is that in order to use the app on Android, you have to sign in with Google, Apple, or Github and use their cloud for sync. I'm trying to convince the dev to allow their "local first" mantra to permeate all versions of the app regardless of platform. He is very receptive, so we'll see. If they do, I can see myself switching to Acreom instead of continuing with Obsidian. But that's the beauty of open file format, you can pack up and leave very easily!

2. Notesnook - Is FOSS. But not self-hostable yet. That is on their roadmap. Potential dealbreaker is that it doesn't support markdown, rather shortcuts that behave similar to markdown syntax. As a result of that and their E2EE, the file format is not as open as Obsidian and others that use simple .md files.

I'd pay the $10/yr premium if you can swing it. The emergency contact recovery feature alone was more than worth it to me.

For 2FA, I highly recommend Aegis. I switched from both Google and Microsoft authenticator apps earlier this year and it's been great. I have the backups running automatically and it dumps it into a folder the Seafile is syncing for me. So not only do I have the backups on the server, but on the clients as well. Seafile is then backed up to an encrypted B2 bucket for further redundancy.

I hesitate to mention Saber only because it didn't quite fit my use case. But I like that it is cross platform and can sync with Nextcloud. Might be worth testing to see if it works for you.

Pihole for years on a Pi3. But it kept dying on me, taking the Internet down with it. I believe this was a micro SD card issue not the Pi or the software. When rebuilding it I took the chance to try AGH and honestly like the interface much better. Seems more logically laid out, at least to me. So now I run one instance on Pi3, another on my unRAID server, with Adguard sync to keep them identical. I'm very happy with this setup.