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HelixNotes is completely free, open source, with no bloat. Your notes should be yours.

So we made sure they are. https://helixnotes.com/

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[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I still use Simple note.

While I'd prefer one that isn't owned by the same people as WordPress and not sync to their cloud, it is open source and free. I figure it beats Google or MS notes, and don't have to manage syncing all the files. No AI nonsense either (at least for now)

Easy for shopping lists and jotting stuff down, there's an app for all the major OSs. I definitely don't trust it for anything important or sensitive.

[–] Zeiram@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Be careful with Helix Notes. It is great. But it destroyed all your markdown table. It will replace the table with HTML code when you edit a file.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Manalith@midwest.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not sure if you can answer this question, but I've tried Markdown in the past with Joplin and one of the issues I had with it was that the codeblocks don't have a convenient copy button. It separates them out nicely but you still have to highlight to copy and paste.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but as far as I could tell, this seemed like a shortcoming of Markdown itself, but is that something helix is able to do? It's the one thing that's got me on AnyType over any other note app, but I'm heavily under utilizing it for what it could be good for.

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

im fine with quillpad

[–] ComradePedro@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 weeks ago

Personally I’m comfortable on Notesnook and tbh I trust them more

[–] grapemix@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, hey, I saw your repo is stall for months and I thought your project go south. So you finally satisfied with your gui speed after rewritten? Good to see you make it, congrats. Already find a job? You should really design a good plugin sys with py, to expand more interactive data type. Let me know if you want to hear more.

[–] mmmm@sopuli.xyz -5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just downloaded it and opened it and the first thing it does is to ask me for a "notes folder" with .md files, which I don't have. I just wanted to try it by writing notes.

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