i use note taking apps to log and search information about marxism-leninism. its a big research topic consisting of decolonization feminist theory history of disability oppression etc. so i want a good note taking application that allows me to log and search this information easily and quickly any suggestions. i currently use tiddlywiki but that has its own syntax and limits. the desktop releases haven’t been updated in a while.
For note taking the current shiny thing that people are using is obsidian: https://obsidian.md/
Otherwise there is org-modes in emacs but it is tough to get into.
while obsidian is great and i use it myself, it is sadly not foss
Wow that blows
not being foss is its only downside though
and on linux you can run it as a flatpak so its decently sandboxed too
As a certified dum dum I’ve never gotten into taking notes so haven’t needed anything like it so far.
i will also recommended obsidian despite it not being foss, but i also can recommend logseq, which is foss
I use Logseq, which is GNU AGPL 3.0 licensed.
Another big + for obsidian.
Silent Notes on F-Droid. Barely talked about, local (no cloud), great encryption, very discrete and great formatting options. My personal pick after shifting away from the bloated and feature-limited Standard Notes.
Standard Notes is the move! I dig it soo much.
Edit: Misread the app name lol
I use obsidian for research and writing. It’s free but not open source. I would recommend it still because it’s really nice for linking and searching notes.
zim is an interesting note taking app if you want to have notes with subnotes and have them organized hierarchically.
Joplin is foss although I haven’t ever really used it myself
