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

    • tubbadu@lemmy.kde.socialOP
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      10 months ago

      I downloaded the fdroid app but… I’m not able to use checkboxes. If I type

      - something

      it is not converted into a bullet list

      - [ ] something
[ ] something
[] something

      are not converted to checklists
      and if I click on the checklist icon in the toolbar LATER appears instead of a checkbox… am I missing something?

      • geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        10 months ago

        In the block, the first word should be TODO Then when you click off it, it adds a checkbox at the start

        Everything is already a bullet list, that’s the logseq design, so if you also want numbering then use the command key / and search for numbering

        Hope that helps!

    • blindsight@beehaw.org
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      10 months ago

      It’s not WYSIWYG, though, it uses markdown (like Lemmy/Reddit). I prefer markdown since I don’t want to fiddle with UI buttons while typing, but it’s not what OP is asking for.

      OP, why do you want WYSIWYG (on mobile)? I could see it, maybe, on desktop, but a note taking app should be focused on efficient input, imho, so markdown just makes more sense to me. Triple-# for an h3 is way faster than navigating to a Style menu and clicking Heading 3 in a UI dropdown (or whatever).

      Regardless, I like Logseq so much that it’s the first open source project I regularly contribute to financially. It’s a game changer for me and managing my ADHD across 6 devices. (Lots of different work and personal machines/devices).

      • geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        10 months ago

        I would argue that it is as close as you can get to WYSIWYG without being it. Logseq works with blocks, which in most cases are only a line or two long. Every block on the page, except the one you’re actively clicked on /working on are WYSIWYG.

        There’s no rendering etc, you just click off the block and you see it