Hello: Id like to kno whats the latest working app to get a BraX3 to have immediate automatic syncing of Notes, ie, a “notes” app, like what I have between an iPhone and Macbook Pro. I dont mean that all the options are available-Im concentrating on just simple formated text notes. I want a working app that does the syncing from a Brax3 to a Macbook Pro, back and forth. Anyone have any app now thats working like that?
Thanks for any advice-
I’m using the free version of StandardNotes (owned by Proton) for now - until I decide on long term solution (which may be the paid version of it).
Otherwise things like Joplin and such - basically your best bet is Nextcloud and then you can use a whole raft of options…
In no particular order with some general observations and one or two of these I wouldn’t recommend, and a couple may not have mobile versions (as I originally researched this for Linux), but for completeness:
- Craft - privacy/secure
- Joplin (highly recommend, but electron app so resource heavy, cross platform) - can sync via Dropbox, Onedrive or JoplinCloud. May not have mobile version. - privacy/secure
- StandardNotes - privacy/secure
- Obsidian - privacy/secure
- SimpleNote (more minimalist, also an electron app, cross platform, have to create an account). Has mobile apps. Free sync on line. Very simple - no hierarchy for notes??
- Evernote (very rich and complex, electron app, have to create an account, not Open Source)
- Xournal++ (does handwritten, cross platform, open source)
- NoteJot (native app, looks good on anything, no sync capability, vaguely iOS Notes-like) - might be workable depending on how notes are stored?
- Logsec notes app (replace Obsidian)
- appflowy (replace Notion)
- AnyType (replace Notion)
- Notion
- Notesnook
- QOwnNotes (good features, native app, open source, integrates with Nextcloud, semi-OneNote like, UI not so good with GNOME or Elementary)
- RNote (also does handwritten notes)
- GNote (more like a wiki, sync but no mobile app). Can sync with local folder, online folder or web storage.
P.S. And there are others…
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Thanks alot for your answer!
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No worries.
This might also be of some minor interest…
From the above:
It points out iodéOS includes Carnet by default for notes - quite good features but a few issues too, and it needs Nextcloud to sync.
Fossify Notes also isn’t on my list - but it doesn’t support syncing (via Nextcloud) and I don’t think it has a non-mobile Linux client or anything.
NotallyX I personally have never looked at.
Vivaldi Browser can manage and sync notes (apparently - I haven’t tested it) but it also doesn’t have as good a blocking, privacy, anti-fingerprinting, etc, as Brave, Mullvad, Firefox/iodé Browser, etc.
(P.S. Its from the guys who originally did Opera Browser - if you know Linux from 20-25 or so years ago; or used it on Windows in the mid-2000’s or so, before Microsoft got it’s claws into it - so good designers, but more usability focused than privacy.)
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Do any of these notes apps allow you to sync notes with other users securely, for syncing a shopping list or to do list etc with other people ? And by synch I don’t mean requiring my own nextcloud instance. I mean from my acount to another’s account. So I understand data won’t be only stored on the device.
A couple do allow sharing, but I don’t recall which off hand.
Standardnotes definitely doesn’t because of the level of encryption (you can’t realistically have as secure as possible online/cloud notes and also then share them as well).
You have excluded it, but sharing can be done (in some form) by most of the ones that work with Nextcloud I believe (IIRC).
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