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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 ?

Andromxda ,
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Obsidian is pretty good, it shouldn't collect any data by default. But you can also check out Logseq, an open source Obsidian alternative.

jelloeater85 ,
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I've never seen anything fishy from them, many people trust them for their work notes.

It's all .md files you own.

GameMuse OP ,

Thanks for the advice

possiblylinux127 ,
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Nextcloud notes if you have a Nextcloud instance

just_another_person , (edited )

Joplin is pretty good for organizing notes.

GameMuse OP ,

I tried Joplin but the layout confuses me. I don't get why there is two windows one for text and one for code ?

just_another_person ,

It's a Markdown editor. You write markdown in one, and preview in the other. Or, you can just turn the preview off.

Andromxda ,
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You can switch to the WYSIWYG Editor in the settings

digdilem ,

Agree, and I switched over a couple of years ago. Only yesterday learned about Mermaid graphs and was impressed that Joplin does them natively.

Scipitie ,

As they are closed source no one can tell you their true privacy policy. It seems better than average from what I've read but you never know...

Personally I use logseq and sync the files via a Nextcloud instance. I can only recommend it, although I also recommend spending an hour to learn the tagging and linking logic and reading through their guide on what's possible.
I still only leverage a minor part of the potential myself.

One that is closer to onenote (I think, never used onenote) is Joplin.

GameMuse OP ,

Thanks for the advice

Tangent5280 ,

logseq

constantokra ,

Unless you need specific functionality that silver bullet doesn't provide, i'd start there. It's very similar to logseq, but doesn't have a bunch of questionable design choices based around a paid sync monetization scheme. Silverbullet is self hosted and has a web app. Logseq is a webapp, packaged for Android and desktop, but only allowed file access for your data so you can't self host sync... Because they charge for that. It's a mess.

TheSun ,

I just use syncthing with logseq and it works fine...

constantokra ,

I do too. My point is there's already a web app you can self host, but you can't store your data on your server. The web app uses the local file access framework, which is just dumb. There's no reason for this except to be able to monetize sync, and that's also dumb because as you said, sync thing works fine. But they're making a bad choice to explicitly remove functionality, and that doesn't make me feel confident about the future of the project.

TheSun ,

I don't know, they have to monetise somehow. Paying for the convenience of sync seems like a valid path especially given there's fully functional alternative syncs available for free.

constantokra ,

I don't disagree. My problem is not with their choice of monetizing sync. My problem is with their choice to package a web app for Android and desktop, provide that same web app for self hosting, but not allow you to store the data in the web app. In the discussions on GitHub they claim it's just something they can't tackle right now, or whatever. No. It's functionality that was specifically stripped because that's how every other self hosted web app works and the local storage framework they use is obviously bolted on and not well supported by browsers. In other words, they're manufacturing problems to sell you a solution.
And again, that's their decision to make. It just doesn't seem like they make good decisions, and we're talking about an app you put a lot of work and data into.

hasecilu ,
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For this exact reason I switched to Trilium, I can acces on all my devices. I'm very expectant of the new fork Trilium Next.

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