Stumbled on this program called Anytype a while ago, a note-taking application similar to Notion. It’s surprisingly well polished and works for me.
They have a lot of aspects which seem like they’d appeal to more privacy-conscious people. Plus decentralization should appeal to Lemmings of course. But as far as I’m aware I’ve never heard anyone talk about this program. I was wondering if this is just due to obscurity, or if there are reasons it’s not often recommended.
I just found this yesterday so I cannot properly give a review on it, but I found Logseq which seems to be a privacy-focused knowledge management and collaboration platform. It seems very promising and reminds me somewhat of Obsidian
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I’ve been using it for several months by now, I keep everything synced with Syncthing and it’s been working really well. Android app is still rough around the edges but it does work alright.
My understanding is it was developed as an answer to Roam Research specifically, and while its model might not work for everyone, I love it.
I tried looking for where the company developing Logseq was located and couldn’t find any information at all. The only thing I found was this in the T&C
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It’s FOSS, I don’t think a particular company is developing it
I am trying this program on mobile and Mac but am hesitant to try on windows as the virus total scan is coming back positive for 2 hits. Any concerns there?
It is foss software with a big community. Not getting any safer
The community can only read the source code, as of yet. All of the source code has been provided by a set of internal developers.
The fact that it is open source means that, if somehow two malware elements have made it into the source code, then someone will eventually report it. But this doesn’t mean that two malware elements cannot be there right now.
These two malware hits on total virus scan should be communicated to the developers.
Totally agree, FOSS doesn’t mean immune from malice. I saw some articles talking about a signing issue but that was years ago. Odd they haven’t addressed it in that amount of time.
Been using it on a daily basis for many months now. It has proven to be reliable for me
I’m not a power user by any means but I moved over from obsidian and haven’t had any issues so far. I’m using the free cloud storage right now but will look into self hosting if I get more serious about it.
Is it feasible to just sync the database with Nextcloud (I.e. is the database just a bunch of files)?
Can’t say for sure. Everything is considered an object in anytype. As I understand it every line of text, every bullet point could be its own file. Instead of one markdown file for each page like obsidian does. How this will affect the syncing I can’t say.
Right now you can’t turn off the built-in sync with their servers (except by blocking traffic with a firewall). So there isn’t really anything to gain in hosting the files yourself.
They plan to implement 3rd party sync though and there seems to be a docker image to self host, that would likely be a better option. https://doc.anytype.io/anytype-docs/data-and-security/data-storage-and-deletion/self-hosting
I tried a bunch of these note taking apps and didn’t really get on with any of them. I now use the Vscode/Vscodium extension Foam which essentially gives all the note taking features and graph view in what is already a good text editor.
So long as you are mainly writing notes and don’t need the database features that AnyType has or the DataView plug in Obsidian has (though there might be another vscode extension for this - I’ve never looked), then you’d be fine.
I came across it a little while back (after watching a Linux Experiment video) but haven’t gotten into it yet.
The video (if anyone is curious): https://tilvids.com/w/5XTPqzq54ENNm7kELSaoTw
Tried it for a week, but personally found it all to confusing for being a note taking app…
I just installed it. In need to look more in to it. But thank you for mentioning it. Never got really in to notion and
I’m liking it a lot, been using it for a few months.
If you like note taking software: https://youtu.be/XRpHIa-2XCE
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https://piped.video/XRpHIa-2XCE
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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