When Evernote got sold and it became expensive for me to afford it, I decided to move out to something more modular and that'll fit into my current ecosystem that's based out of Nextcloud. And switched to Obisidan.
And since then my experience with Obisidian is great. It's plugin system allows me to sync my content over my Nextcloud server and combines the features of several apps into just one.
For example, Kanban Board plugin gives me the core features of Trello, plugin gives me basic functionality of various to-do list apps, Excaliboard adds a whiteboard function and the list goes on.
This extensibility of Obsidian is a complete treasure box for me and I can't think a second without it.
But problem is, Obsidian isn't a free nor open-source app and some of it's features are locked behind a paywall and it's not cheap. At least for me because of dollar to lira conversation rates.
And because of that I wanted to give the open-source alternatives a shot and with that I went and created an account on Notesnook with it's 14 day premium trial.
For those don't know, Notesnook is a open source Evernote alternative that follows a similar design with Evernote. It's not self-hostable yet but according to their roadmap, they're planning to make it self-hostable.
The Notesnook experience
I'm gonna compare the Notesnook with Evernote to give you an idea.
The Notesnook experience is similar to Evernote. When you start Notesnook, it greets you with a blank page for creating new notes while Evernote greets you with a beautifully designed homepage and bunch of ads for their premium subscription.
I must say I love that homepage feature of Evernote and use obsidian-homepage plugin on Obsidian to get a similar experience. And I hope Notesnook developers adds this feature.
Writing on both application almost feels same, with small differences on user interface. Both Notesnook and Evernote provides tools for styling text and both supports Markdown format for writing and both has a pretty fast and simple web interface. The biggest difference is, Evernote only supports exporting in HTML format. But Notesnook supports exporting text in formats such as Markdown, PDF, HTML and pure text.
As a blogger who publishes posts on markdown format, that feature of Notesnook is a huge plus for me.
Just like Evernote and Obsidian Notesnook also has mobile applications for both iOS and Android. And the simplicity of the desktop apps do continues on mobile apps.
It has all the features of desktop apps and it runs very well. Unlike Evernote's Android application, I never had any lagging or sync issues. I wrote 2 of my posts on my mobile phone and never had problems.
And thanks to it's markdown exporting feature I was able to publish those posts directly from my phone.
Sync between devices are just perfect. Even on slower 3g connections, changes I made on notes did sync up instantly. And as a person who uses more than 6 different devices in daily basis, on areas that has slow network connectivity, it's just great.
So the overall experience of Notesnook is just perfect. From it's sync features to native apps, I never had any problems on past 1 week and I'm planning keep using it alongside of Obsidian, for simple things like note sharing or mobile typing, thanks to it's affordable prices.
I'll definitely gonna write a update post to this as time passes. As always, thanks for checking out!
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26.07.2024 - 60/100