I’ve been using Obsidian for a long time. I enjoy it and all of its extensions. However setting up the app and syncthing on all of my systems gets irritating.
Any way, after a little looking around, I found Trillium notes. It doesn’t quite have all the extensions, but is easier to setup. Give it a look, see what you think
The name “Trillium” reminds me of the old multi-network instant messaging app, Trillian.
i thought this was an open source version of the messaging app at first and got a wave of nostalgia :(
I’ve tried lot of selfhosted note taking apps. A lot.
While Trillium is polished and efficient, I find that the PWA makes the UI hard to navigate and read. It deserves a real app, optimized for smaller screens.
I haven’t really used obisidian as it is a bit overkill for my use case anyway. So not using trillium wasn’t such a loss.
I ended up using bookstack for my knowledge base, and flatnotes for everyday note taking.
It deserves a real app, optimized for smaller screens.
A PWA can be optimized in the same way. For something like a note taking app, I don’t really understand the benefit that a native app would provide over a PWA.
Trillium is my personal choice for self-hosted notes. I haven’t really had issues with using it on mobile, but I also just tend to put the stuff I think of when I’m out and about into a single note that I periodically go through and reorganize. It’s been good to me so far, and it has all of the features I really need. If I need something fancier (or public-facing), I toss it in BookStack instead. Then again, I don’t use either of them for business (mostly for tabletop RPG stuff and instructions to friends/family about using the other stuff I self-host), so if that’s your application, I have no clue how it holds up.
Does trillium support #Tags? That’s a feature missing from most obsidian alternatives. To be honest, obsidian is the best note taking app as it seems for now, even if closed source sadly.
You might be interested in https://logseq.com/ then
I love Logseq to bits but I wish self hosting it made more sense. Last I checked it still requires you to point it to a local folder even if you host it yourself and access it through the browser so it’s kinda useless.
I deal with it because it’s by far the best fit I’ve found for my workflow but I’m not crazy about having to set up Syncthing and install the app everywhere.
I sync logseq with my nextcloud which is working great so far
Right, Syncthing works fine too. It’s not that big a deal since I already use it for other stuff anyway but I’d love to be able to just open a browser from anywhere and point at my Logseq instance without having to install anything.
Are you syncing to mobile? I’m trying to get the logseq Android client to use the Nextcloud directory but it seems to be a known bug ☹
Yeah, they are working in sync, but I have syncthing running anyways and don’t really see myself working on two instances of LogSeq at the same time, so it works well for me.
That’s fair, it’s my workflow too. I just like the idea of being able to access it from any device in a pinch or from a locked down work computer, for instance.
I used it for months, but I didn’t like it that much. IIRC, it doesn’t store it’s data as pure markdown files, which is a no go for me. Also: plugins.
The best foss alternative I found so far is the one that starts with K and has a way too long to remember. (I know, but I can’t remember)
