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Looking for OneNote Alternative (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by IuseArchbtw@feddit.de to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Hey everyone,

I am looking for an alternative for OneNote for Linux. A clone would be perfect, the interface of it and the ability to paste pictures into a very wide notes field is great. Please help me!

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[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Joplin also has a great web-clipper through a companion addon in Firefox (and I assume also Chromium)

Joplin is great in many ways, and I do use it to some degree, but there's a few things that irks me.

Notes and attachments being stored in a database and referenced by a cryptic UID instead of plain files with human readable names makes integration with other apps impossible. And it's bad for data portability
On Android I've never been able to get it to background sync. I need to keep Joplin in the foreground. The second I switch to another app it stops syncing
On sync conflicts it'll just use the newest note as master and overwrite older changes. Luckily if you realise it happened you can use the history feature to get back lost changes. Typical scenario for me is to add much more stuff to a shopping list while on desktop. 30minutes later open the app on Android while shopping to tick off an item. Realize all the recently added items from desktop are gone to the ether (stored in history on the desktop and other synced devices)

Hopefully these sync issues are some rare bug for me. I've tried all the usual "battery saving" tricks in android, but still Joplin will not background sync. Other apps like DavX5 sync fine. Are anybody else here having luck with Joplin on mobile?

[–] chri5@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As far as I know it's a known limitation. Joplin just does not have background sync. It's ok for my use case but the initial sync can take a long time depending on your database size. Other than that, I'm happy with Joplin.

[–] mori@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I had to stop using it when it nuked one of my notebooks due to a conflict. I'm still not sure exactly what caused it; but I had to go into the DB, reassign the pages that were not completely deleted (orphaned?) to a new notebook, and cry about the few that weren't recoverable.

[–] SilkenTofu@readit.buzz 1 points 1 year ago

I believe you can export joplin notebooks in several different widely compatible file types. So you have full portability, although perhaps not full interoperability (I use it in an encrypted form anyway so I couldn't integrate any other apps).

Sync conflicts send the replaced version to a dedicated conflicts notebook, in my experience.