After Obsidian and Logseq, I give Dendron a try

• obsidian-minimal

  49 3,313 9.1 CSS

  A distraction-free and highly customizable theme for Obsidian.

  Use the Minimal theme, and apply the settings tweaks per https://minimal.guide

  Feels pretty macOS-like to me.

• notesnook

  215 8,280 9.9 TypeScript

  A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.

  

  I have been using Notesnook[0] for over a year (mostly because its encrypted and private) and it has helped me tremendously. Obsidian is too text-editor-esque for me. I haven't tried Logseq or Dendron though.

  I actually like how Notesnook forces you to keep your organization at 2 levels. Restricting at first it helped me simplify my workflow a lot and finding things is a breeze since I know it can't be more than 2 levels deep. For some reason I can't wrap my head around interlinking; hierarchy based organization is good enough for me.

  Taking notes doesn't need anything else.

  Aside: the recent news about Notesnook going open source[1] has gotten me really excited. This might actually turn out to be a notes app I stick to. Let's see where the winds blow...

  [0] https://notesnook.com/

  [1] https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook

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• foam

  49 14,777 8.5 TypeScript

  A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode

  

  For this looking for an Obsidian like tool for commercial usage, check out Foam [0]. It covers most of the core Obsidian featured and it's implemented as a VS Code extension and some of the advantages that entails. Of course, you won't have access to the Obsidian extensions and I do miss the live preview feature and the Android app but it's way more than servicable.

  [0]: https://github.com/foambubble/foam

• Trilium Notes

  278 25,237 9.7 JavaScript

  Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

  I also switched between some of those apps for quite some time until i found Trilium Notes. https://github.com/zadam/trilium

• owo

  9 146 0.0 PowerShell

  Discontinued Export your OneNote note collection to Obsidian, Logseq, Org Mode or any other plain text note-taking app! [Moved to: https://github.com/alopezrivera/OneNoteExporter]

• git-auto

  3 146 1.3 Shell

  Discontinued A Simple Shell Script To Do Git Commit And Push Automatically

  

  Yup, I've been doing this for months. It seems like they recently removed the automatic commit feature from the app itself and instead moved it to this little script: https://github.com/logseq/git-auto

• memo

  3 799 4.6 TypeScript

  Markdown knowledge base with bidirectional [[link]]s built on top of VSCode (by svsool)

  If you're giving Foam a look, also consider svsool's unfortunately named "Memo" (previously Markdown Memo): https://github.com/svsool/memo It's a VSCode plugin for groups of Markdown notes similar to Foam and Dendron and inspired by Roam. I prefer this to Foam.

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• notebook

  6 70 5.5 HTML

  Tool for Thought. ʚɞ (by ilse-langnar)

  I've experienced similar frustrations with notetaking apps.

  I'm now working on a tool similar to "Obsidian, Logseq and Dendron".

  It came as a frustration of previous tools(I've used ALL of them). They're either not flexible enough, not light enough, not powerful enough, not portable enough etc.

  So I made: https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook/

  It combines both studying/references. So it's a flashcard(I don't user Supermemo algo tho) + Notetaking. It's also built on a standard so you can develop commandline/mobile/toaster app that is compatible.

• zim-desktop-wiki

  163 1,848 8.4 Python

  Main repository of the zim desktop wiki project

  

  I'll call it; for an app in this space, anything other than FOSS or perhaps a one time deal like Obsidian's model is 100% a bad idea, and self-hosting must ALWAYS be a first-class citizen.

  It's perhaps ironic that this reverses "you get what you pay for," but experience should teach all of us that these subscription type deals are strongly likely to screw you, usually through some change in the business model.

  (Personally, tried org-mode in the past, have also played with Obsidian, but for me http://zim-wiki.org is the perfect combo of easy and extensible)

• Joplin

  771 42,689 9.9 TypeScript

  Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

  Oh man, I can relate.

  I am currently evaluating Joplin.

  https://joplinapp.org/

• notational-fzf-vim

  13 1,116 0.0 Vim Script

  Notational velocity for vim.

  I use Notable on Linux and Noteless on Android, with Foldersync for automatically syncing. I tried Obsidian, and prefer Noteless' interface, where I can see all notes just reverse sorted by modification time. Both have a tag view.

  In addition, there's the excellent vim plugin https://github.com/Alok/notational-fzf-vim that allows fuzzy search of notes in vim.

• Prism-Theme

  15 346 8.6 SCSS

  A Comprehensive, Highly-Customisable and Elegant Light/Dark Theme for Obsidian.md

• obsidian-outliner

  14 900 6.1 TypeScript

  Work with your lists like in Workflowy or RoamResearch

  IMO: Obsidian does a good job in making me reflect and review notes, but not enough to prompt me to write more of them. Logseq does the exact opposite.

  There's nothing wrong with Obsidian per se, but that's probably the crux of my issue with it. I'm not very naturally inclined to taking notes in the first place, and Obsidian just hasn't made me take that many more notes than I used to.

  Logseq on the other hand has an editor that makes it hard for you to even write longer / multi-line blocks. In some ways, I suspect that writing in bullet points or smaller blocks encourages shorter but more frequent note writing, and my brain seems to respond well to that. Obsidian can technically do that to some degree, but the editor doesn't do enough to make me write shorter and more atomic notes, even with the Outliner[0] plugin installed.

  [0]: https://github.com/vslinko/obsidian-outliner

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