Obsidian with Syncthing running on both your Android and your server for syncing your notes.
That solution doesn't exactly spark joy. Folder sync in general is, in my experience, too error prone. So I just stay away from it. Maybe I'll need to finally give it another try.
I sync hundreds of gigs, (if not terabytes at this point) using Syncthing with errors on only one machine (it's running on 6 devices, including a VM). And those errors are of my own doing, not random Syncthing errors.
It's surprisingly robust these days, especially for a single-user notes.
I have an indexing job that runs on my server every 30 minutes, saving into a text file (it indexes my media folder, which is about 3TB of movies and TV shows).
Those text files sync to my phone when they've changed (so every 30 minutes). They're always up to date when I open them.
My phone also has jobs to continually sync my photos to home, an ad-hoc folder to my laptop, and about 25 other folder pairs (including NeoBackup) that sync under different conditions, without fail.
I'm currently testing Cherrytree using Sourcherry on Android and it seems to work fine as a single-user solution with Syncthing.
Obsidian livesync works really well. Notes are live synced between my desktop and Android device
Joplin will do this for you. It comes ready to sync with all sorts of cloud options, as well as "local folder" which works well with Syncthing. It's offline-first, cross-platform, and FOSS.
Can confirm. This app is great! I particularly like that it works across all OSs.
Org-mode and git push works for me.
I'm not mentally ill enough for that. 😛
Look at Notesnook. You can even self-host the server, though it’s somewhat more complicated than it needs to be.
Take a look at Affine. I am using Joplin currently, however I am leaning more and more towards Affine due to OIDC support
For this scenario, I can recommend Standard Notes and/or Notesnook. I've tried Joplin and Logseq and didn't like either.
I suggest looking into using or hosting Notesnook
Mobile app is great. Desktop and web clients are great. End to end encrypted.
Self hosting docs I am unsure of. But it exists.
This along with a home VPN and you can hit it from anywhere.
I've been happily using SilverBullet lately too. Can recommend
Can recommend, works offline and online with PWA support and stores everything in Markdown files for easy migration if you want to change your frontend.
How are you doing offline PWA?
It just works™?
Silverbullet supports working offline as a pwa, just click install on the website and you get a shortcut to the web app that you can use online and offline, open it when your online again to sync your changes to the other devices.
I know this is said a lot, but nextcloud does all that.
As an added benefit the files are just in a directory that you could edit if needed
Joplin for sure. But I personally use Obsidian because of the UI. I sync it with my server using Syncthing. All devices are synced to the server and not with each other so I have one source of Truth.
Obsidian aldo has (paid, subscription) native sync that is supposed to work better than file sync. Another alternative is git sync. That's basically file sync through git but great if you want to track your changes.
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