Hello! I’m still not satisfied with my note taking app. I tried dozen of them, read tons of lists on random blogs on the internet, without any success. I’ll try to ask you then.

I’m looking for a note taking app with just this 3 features:

  • richtext/WYSIWYG (i don’t want to write plain text and then press a button to see it rendered)
  • it has to support CHECKBOXES! Most of the apps I tried does not support them, or supported them only if all the note was a checklist. I don’t want a checklist, I want a note where I can put some checkbox inside!
  • FOSS and active

The one I’m currently using is obsidian, but it’s not FOSS and it feels very overcomplicated for a simple note apps.

Any suggestion is welcome!

EDIT: forgot to mention, I’m talking about Android XD

  • thejevans
    2•11 months ago

    I’m looking for the same thing but with the added difficultly of wanting live collaboration in notes, primarily so I can use it for grocery shopping with my partner, but for other stuff we do together, too. Hedgedoc 2.0 is what I have my eye on the most.

    The current Hedgedoc checks boxes 2 and 3 for you, but not box 1. You can check/uncheck checkboxes in view mode, though. I’m at the point now where I don’t really care too much about having a wysiwyg editor for my workflow, but I understand if it’s not what you need.

    They have a demo here: https://demo.hedgedoc.org/

    The other biggest downside is how 1.x handles navigating to different notes. It uses a “history” page which works alright, but isn’t very organized. 2.0 will include an “explore” page that will be much better.