In a database with the option to export all notes or single notes as markdown.

If you haven’t tried Trilium in a while you should. It has improved significantly and has a nice clean new theme.

Trilium Next has 2fa, note encryption and oidc support AFAIK, so the authentication should not be a concern. Every instance retains its own copy of the data and syncs with the server (if you have one) backups are made daily in the back end iirc. Exporting the data is trivial too in both HTML and markdown.

Trilium is an excellent option, however, the original project is no longer maintained. There is a new community fork that is active here: https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes

+1 for the open source option: Trilium The project is being maintained here: https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes

You can always export all of your notes in markdown format, but the notes are always saved in a database.

I can see your point, I should have clarified that I never use an external editor myself to edit the notes, I was just saying that you could do that if you needed to. I only export to Nextcloud so I can view it there just as I would have to save to Nextcloud if I was using Obsidian or some other file-based note-taking app.

I was just posting to get some eyes on the project in case there were some folks who wanted to join the community and help get things rolling even faster.

'🎁 An official backward-compatible TriliumNext Notes release should be available soon!’

No, but I wish somwone would make a table similar to: https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries

Just one way since I have never found the need to edit the notes in Nextcloud

We actually plan to be able to do this! I am a OneNote convert and was able to convert everything to Trilium with quite minimal formatting issues.

I meant the title as a tounge and cheek reference, but I wasn’t obvious about it!

Thanks for the clear explanation, that makes sense to me. For me, I just use Trilium for all of the above, so it doesn’t affect me, but I could see how it would matter for those using it in the way you are 👍

For reference, I have over 300,000 notes in Trilium, and it is runs smoothly 👍

This has been supported for a while using the Canvas Note Type.

This is understandable and has been probably the most requested feature. So afaik the new organization is dedicated to providing native apps at some point after the initial stable release.

Oof good point! XMPP Bridge: xmpp:discuss@trilium.thisgreat.party?join

I actually quite like the simplistic UI, but this is actually a focus of the new TriliumNext organization - to improve the UI.

I’ve never quite understood why this is such a non-starter for most people. I just simply set up a script to export my Trilium notes to Nextcloud as flat files so I can still read my notes anywhere even without a Trilium client. Trilium also allows you to edit the notes with an external editor, and then you can just re-import the note to update the note in Trilium.

I think note cloning is unique - note clones were a game changer for me. Directories are notes too so you can add content to them just like any other note. The biggest advantage for me: its open source Server syncing is free without needing to use third party solutions.