Any options?
Thanks for all the alternatives. I’m also asking if there’s anyway to edit trillium on my phone when my server is offline… guess not?
100% Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/)
There is a ton of content out there demo’ing Obsidian, but this 10min video is the one that did the trick for me: https://youtu.be/DbsAQSIKQXk?si=Wm_okygCkRrtqRQa
Obsidian, then do whatever you want with your markdown files.
Anytype: Free, open source, offline first, P2P sync, end to end encrypted.
Anytype
Just looked at the iOS app and it has an IAP of £119.00. Put me off completely.
You only pay if you want to use > 1GB of their cloud storage, which you wouldn’t if you self-hosted it or relied entirely on P2P syncing.
I use markor on android (open source) and syncthing to keep my readable MD files synched with my silverbullet self hosted, which is also nice for online editing at the same time.
Beware that Joplin MD files are not standard and cannot be easily read standalone.
Thanks for the other option and letting me know Joplin files are not standard! That’s a big deal to me as that is the main one I was looking at
Its a common misunderstanding. Joplin files are .MD, and somewhere it says its markdown, because indeed Joplin uses markdown even inside the files.
But if you do open those files with any other markdown editor, you find out they are not plain markdown. The text itself is mixed up with other stuff (tags and such) in a non standard way. You notes are not lost and can be recovered, just not by straight open up in another markdown editor.
Obsidian? Saves everything in Markdown. It is offline but you can sync things with syncthing. Has a great app on mobile too. I run syncthing on my phone too and sync everything between my devices.
Logseq with Syncthing if you want cross device operation.
This. I sync my (markdown) notes between Linux, Windows and Android devices, edit on either device , or even manually manipulate the text files, and all is well.
Obsidian or Joplin. Offline first, clients for every platform, and easy self-host (if you want) syncing options and plugins.