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OneNote alternative to make a knowledge base

Hey Privacy people,

I am looking for a OneNote alternative for all my campaign notes for my tabletop RPGs. I was looking at Obsidian.md as an option and wondering what their data collection is like?

Fot all my personal and private notes I use standard notes but the free version is not quite roboist enougj. I can't afford to pay premium any time soon I need a free option I can use.

Any suggestions ?

fireshell ,
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Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion

ssm ,
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Plain text files.

Harvest5634 ,

Obsidian and logseq

helenslunch ,
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As for a generic notes platform my favorite is crypt.ee

It's paid but they give you 100mb "free forever", which is more than enough for a whole lot of text-based notes.

Best part is it works like Google docs where there is an offline cache so you don't have to sit there and stare at it for 10 seconds waiting for it to decrypt.

They're centered in Estonia.

As for hand-written notes, I like RNote but don't really use it much, as I can't get my Wacom or Lenovo or MS pens to work on Linux. But there's nothing that comes close to OneNote in that regard.

GameMuse OP ,

Thank you I will have to check it out as I am using only office for my google doc replament.

helenslunch ,
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That's fine as well, just be sure to keep your documents backed up. I keep some presentations and spreadsheets on LibreOffice/Nextcloud.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Have you looked at World Anvil? It's been a long time and I don't remember what the free vs. paid tier comparisons were, but I thought it was pretty slick.

Edit: Didn't realise the community I'm in. I have no idea the privacy state of World Anvil but I'll edit if I come across it.

GameMuse OP ,

I am unsure of their privacy but I find their site a bit too clunky.

667 ,
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Obsidian, but I’m not competent to comment regarding their privacy. You can air gap the install and have it on an isolated machine.

It’s hella customizable, and there is broad support specifically for using it with TTRPGs.

Lemongrab ,

On linux for the Obsidian Flatpak, you can deny it having internet and filesystem permissions using Flatseal.

GameMuse OP ,

Oh perfect I am very new to Linux so didn't even really know about flatseal is there any guides or videos how to use flatseal?

Lemongrab ,

I assume it has documentation, otherwise you can look at the Flatpak docs to see the equivalent terminal commands that are available in the GUI. Flatseal is pretty intuitive in my experience.

GameMuse OP ,

Thanks for the advice

Jinx2756 ,

I am a fan of Standard Notes, but crypt.ee is also solid as far as I know.

GameMuse OP ,

I will look into crypt.we thanks.

Jinx2756 ,

If you actually decide to give it a try at some point, I would love to hear about your experience as I do not have hands-on experience with cryptee myself.

Do be aware that they use progressive web apps (so there is no “cryptee app” in App Store or Google Play). But this is actually an active choice by them to enhance security.

If you want to take a longer deep dive into the mind of their CEO, Techlore interviewed him fairly recently.

The interview ran so long that they had to make it a two parter:

https://youtu.be/JsWCSHYY9FU?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/xE-YXAnOTeQ?feature=shared

possiblylinux127 ,
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Nextcloud notes if you have a Nextcloud instance

Dark_Arc ,
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Don't count standard notes out just yet!

They offer discounted plans upon request!

https://standardnotes.com/help/56/what-if-i-can-t-afford-the-price-of-extended

runner_g ,

It's not strictly privacy-focused but The Goblin's Notebook is designed exactly for your use-case. It has markdown, object connections, every object has a player visible setting, so your players can access known content while you keep secrets hidden. There's a free tier, a mid tier at $1.50 and an unlimited tier at $3 dollars a month (managed via their patreon).

makeasnek ,
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There are many open source wiki softwares: zim, dokuwiki, etc.

ResoluteCatnap ,

Look into a static website built with Hugo. You'll be creating pages in markdown like obsidian. You can host it locally so there's no privacy concerns.

If you want it externally facing then there are some options but you'll need to find a site to host your static website and who you're comfortable with their privacy policy.

JustEnoughDucks ,
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For taking campaign notes, bookstack might be an option. It is specifically organized in a book, chapter, page hierarchy.

I also use it for my journal and to do list just because I already used it. Probably not as full featured as obsidian though

fireshell , (edited )
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org-mode/org-roam-ui in Emacs with PGP support synchronization via git in forgejo

fmstrat ,

Outline is self-hostable.

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