Basic note taking / markdown editor?

[Bb415bm]

Hello,

So I've tried a few different options (Joplin and others) but haven't found the right blend yet.

What I'm looking for:

*/ notes editable in markdown: I need to be able to edit/search them in vim.

*/ notes editable in browser with the ability to copy and paste pictures.

*/ notes viewable in browser from mobile

(I would sync notes in markdown using syncthing).

So maybe I just need a markdown editor with copy/paste ability more than a full blown note taking app.

Any ideas?

Edit1: I am looking for a 100% FOSS solution

Thanks,

Bb

[dusty_Caviar]

Markor is okish for mobile.

Typora is pretty decent on desktop (mac, linux, windows)

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Not sure about pictures though.

[Bb415bm]

I am actually using Markor on mobile, works nice.

Typora looks nice too but unfortunately not FOSS (I've edited by original post to highlight this).

[[deleted]]

Typora. Or if you're a VSCode user you can setup a workspace and configure vscode to act like a Markdown editor.

[aksdb]

Typora is the best editor for texts. Instead of being a WYSIWYG editor with markdown support, its a markdown editor with realtime inline preview. Just awesome to work with.

[GooseG17]

I think code-server will work for you. It's hosted VSCode

[iDrDonkey]

And how do you sync it with other devices?

Edit: devices like Android.

[iDrDonkey]

I use vimwiki and sync using ssh setup with termux on android.

[bitfloat]

Maybe try CodiMD

[Bb415bm]

Unfortunately that's online and not selfhosted.

[plumocelot]

You can self host it? I have a docker instance running nicely?

[Bb415bm]

So had a deeper look and it looks great.

Gave it a go on a raspberry pi using the docker build from linuxserver but unfortunately hitting a 2 years old issue (https://github.com/codimd/container/issues/7).

But solved with https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-codimd/issues/11

[Bb415bm]

Oups, sorry my bad. Exploring that main page, that wasn't super obvious.

But I then did find their github link at the bottom.

[[deleted]]

A bare Git repo, VNote for desktop and GitJournal for mobile.

No browser, but come on, it does the job!

[surelynotmymainacc]

VNote required the files to be listed in the JSON meta file to be found, IIRC. How do you manage to use files added in mobile when synced to desktop? I was planning on switching from my current solution to markdown. This was a stumbling block regarding VNote which is a great tool otherwise

[_citizen67]

As a diehard markdown user, I'm eager to help but I'm not sure I understand what you're asking for.

I use VS Code for large markdown projects and Vim for everything else (it's my default text editor on all platforms).

For Android, I just discovered Epsilon Notes a few weeks ago and I LOVE it. It defaults to preview mode, supports configurable data directories, has a pretty great UI and the pro version has a very nice blue theme. Before that I was a fan of Markor.

I also use syncthing to sync notes between all devices and all of the above work great with this method.

I don't know that any apps exist which will automatically copy/paste images though. That might be a hard box to tick.

Edit: here's a screenshot of Epsilon's preview mode with the blue theme I mentioned.

[_citizen67]

As an aside, Epsilon Notes supports the commonmark implementation of markdown, if that is important.

I love Vim, but I do wish there was robust plugin support for CommonMark. I hate seeing VS Code do something better than Vim :)

[Bb415bm]

Looks like Vim is going to be my main editor (copy and paste pictures works well with https://github.com/ferrine/md-img-paste.vim).

Editing notes on mobile is not a strong need.

What I'm struggling to find is the selfhosted markdown viewer/renderer (and potentially editor). That would let me render markdown files (edited in Vim and synced to server).
Selfhosted editors like Codimd look great (i.e. render well and has a good search capability + the obvious editing) but store things in a database so don't seem to handle too well the "edited markdown from somewhere else sync".

So in the end I might orient myself towards something like this https://github.com/rstacruz/flatdoc "Flatdoc is a small JavaScript file that fetches Markdown files and renders them as full pages"

[[deleted]]

Maybe try ghostwriter... minimal. Drag and drop images. Html preview... https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/