nv VS silverbullet

My setup is a little complex, but I'm very happy syncing plain-text notes between my Mac, several Linux machines, and my iPhone.

I'm still using (and loving) Notational Velocity on my Mac. Thankfully it's open source, so I was able to hack together arm64 support even though I don't know C/ObjC/C++ [0].

On my iPhone, I've been very happy with 1Writer, which has a similar interface, and is scriptable with JavaScript for power users.

I have NV configured to store plain-text notes that are stored in 1Writer's iCloud folder, so syncing happens seamlessly between them.

Finally, I sync that same directory with Syncthing to my Linux machines, where I mostly use neovim for editing.

The only feature that I'm often wishing I had is shared editing with my wife. At some point I whipped up some launchd scripts to automatically move notes tagged with `#shared` to a shared subfolder, but it never worked very well. Thankfully my wife is not really all that interested in sharing notes, so we just use Apple Notes when needed.

Tried Obsidian but was miffed at the inability to recognize / store as .txt files instead of .md (or perhaps it was vice versa) without a community plugin, and I prefer FOSS, so uninstalled after a couple days.

Have LogSeq installed but can't convince myself to use it, what I have fits my needs well enough. I'm also concerned about their funding model and the longevity of the project, the other side of the coin of FOSS I suppose.

[0]: https://github.com/n8henrie/nv

I've been using Silverbullet [1] for a while now and love it due to it's usage of plain-text markdown files in a normal directory structure to actually store the notes. Yet, it supports many other features such as query language and to a certain extent, federation with other SilverBullet instances. The only major downside for me is that whilst it's usable on mobile, it feels cramped.

[0]: https://silverbullet.md

I used Obsidian for a while, but for some reason https://silverbullet.md ended up resonating more with me.

While this may not be quite what you're looking for, something like SilverBullet could be made to fit your needs. It has a query system that could show a list of who has done what chore and how many times someone has done a chore and when they each last did a given chore.

I'm a big fan of https://silverbullet.md. You can add a checkbox list like this:

Silverbullet can do that with inline links or hashtags. You can use the query directive to make pages show a list of related items.

https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet This has been my alternative for Obsidian for a while now, and it has support to run it as a server with several frontends or whatever.

I like SilverBullet. It lets you add tags and queries and page links and saves everything to markdown files you can easily backup.

I have a small VPS on which I run Silverbullet on the localhost address, then I run Caddy as a reverse proxy. Caddy takes care of SSL certificates via Tailscale when running on a ts.net address - of course SSL isn't needed because Wireguard encrypts the traffic, but browsers consider http urls unsafe.