I have a dream! - OneNote or Evernote replacement

That the coders of Directory Opus makes an alternative to OneNote or Evernote without a subscription. Im so tired of that crap that Im about to explode.

Thats all I had to say.

Have you tried Obsidian ?
Obsidian has many community plugins that can help you make it what you want.

I have found the AsciiMath plugin extremely useful.
Instead of scribbles and mistakes, I have legible and correct notes.

I started using it not long ago after reading this thread.

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Hmm... This is interesting. I installed Obsidian a while ago but kind of forgot about it.. :roll_eyes:
I will give it another go. OneNote is really, really getting on my nerves. I moved from Evernote to OneNote because Evernote also started getting on my nerves :sweat_smile:

@perihelion74,

By the way, what exactly is wrong with OneNote? You shouldn't need a subscription for it.

Also, unfortunately, in the SW dev world, the developers who can make an amazing file manager are not necessarily the best people to make a note app.

If anyone is interested in the Obsidian AciiMath plugin,
I may be able help you with some of the syntax.

The syntax for Matrices, for instance, differs a bit from old documentation.
I had to look into the 14 closed issues with the plugin on GitHub to find the new syntax.

Traditional syntax is ((a),(b)) for a single column combinatoric.
Using the plugin, that doesn't work, but (a;b) works fine and is probably better.

Integral symbols are too small, but it is only AsciiMath.
The plugin does have a tool to convert to Latex if fine tuning is needed.
Really though, I'm thinking the math, not Latex, when writing these things.
It is almost as easy as the RPL programming of an old HP calculator.
In several ways it is even easier.

Here are a couple of the resultant Obsidian text files, also easy to edit.

These are from a Physics problem I don't know if I will ever solve.
It is a sliding mass along a circular path on a horizontal sliding mass.
In other words, what is the motion of a pendulum on a horizontal sliding mass ?
I had to simplify the problem by limiting the major horizontal mass acceleration to be a constant. That may have created a math fiction, but maybe not. I don't really know yet.

Sliding Pendulum.md.txt (537 Bytes)

DEQ II - A Trig Identity.md.txt (428 Bytes)

Pendulum Integral of Motion.md.txt (920 Bytes)

Newton's generalized binomial theorem.md.txt (531 Bytes)

DEQ I.md.txt (416 Bytes)

Remove the .txt extension and they should load in Obsidian.

Which organizational method do you use in Obsidian?

Nothing Yet.

Here is the proper online parser and syntax for the AsciiMath plugin.
This I think was only recently posted.

It turns out that integral symbols can now be made much larger by prefixing int_a^b with huge.
In other words, type hugeint_a^b . It is good enough for what I have said here, but a superhuge option would be even more helpful, but not necessarily needed.

I don't know if this could be integrated to DOpus.
And even if it could be, how would it be implemented within DOpus ?
I guess the ability to parse and render the .md text files could be very useful, but this is also a javascript WYSIWYG online parser.

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I found all these programs to big for my taste, I just neded a markdown, textsbased noteprogram.
So I settled for QOwnNotes.
I use it at work, at home and when i dable in linux.
As I had a free dropbox already, I just put the note-diretory in it, and then all the notes are on all of my machines. Free and easy. The notes are synced and the notes are files that can be read in a notepad if needed.

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Wow a text app with an actual browser. That looks like a game changer.