I like Trilium because:

• Docker based so I can access from a web browser on any device

• Has both WYSIWYG and Markdown note-taking formats

• Can display math symbols in WYSIWYG, essential for anybody studying STEM

• Has a mind graph view to see linked notes in knowledge clusters

• Storage system is intuitive as every note is both a folder and a note, allowing for extremely modular storage

Helix could be cool, but it's going to take a lot for me to transition off of Trilium now.

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.

intriguing

I'm using Joplin, sync'd across Nextcloud to my android phone, Linux laptop and Linux desktop.

this do much the same or ...better ?

It'll take a lot for me to move from silverbullet.md but I'm always up for checking out alternatives : D

I'll give this a spin tonight

Seems quite good - I've tried a LOT of MarkDown editors over the years, but until quite recently, I'd stuck with Zettlr for a long time. I've recently reinstalled my laptop, which made me look for alternatives to some software, and I've been playing round with MarkText for the last few days, which seems nice.

HelixNotes is definitely good - if I had to drop MarkText, I think I could get on well with it. I like that they have a debian repository, so I can keep it updated with the usual system update software. I downloaded the AppImage as a quick test, but it didn't work because it was compiled against an old version of glibc.

The only thing I don't like so far is the format toolbar is at the bottom of the editor screen, and I haven't found a way to move it.

Looks like a cool project, anyone here try it and have an elivator pitch on why this over Joplin?

Is there an option to make check boxes for shopping lists? I cant find one.

Edit - yes there is. I found it.

Is this obsidian2?

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

Looks cool.. but as an Obsidian user, i’m uncertain as to the depth of the differentiators. Open source sure, but obsidian has served me well and is lightning fast to open even with all core plug-ins enabled plus several community plug-ins. Nearly all of which are optional anyway.

Obsidian also has quite a moat in terms of third-party functionality enhancements with very feature rich examples like Xcalidraw.

They also offer an end to end encrypted synchronization service that works better than file based synchronization services like iCloud, and a publish service that also works well.

No casting of aspersions, but as a former fortune 500 decision-maker for enterprise software in the millions, I have a tendency to critically think about why X vs Y for my personal stack as well. Counterpoints welcome!

Was AI used in the process of making this app, and if so, how? I have personal issues with using 'vibe-coded' software. This looks very, very nice, so I figured I'd ask.

If - hypothetically - you were trying to convince me that this is better than Notesnook, what would your pitch be?

I'll wait a few months and then check in again.

It stores all metadata in YAML frontmatter and doesn't cache in an SQLite blob? I bet that decision will be reversed pretty quickly once people try to migrate a 10k+ note collection and want to do operations like search immediately instead of scanning every file to build an in-memory cache.

No vibe coding. No AI. No slop. This is absolutely screaming LLM

This looks like the slightly less bloated Logseq/Obsidian I've been dying for!

Please, please, add forgejo integration for sync provider.