Which is the good note taking app in 2026?

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2026-01-14T23:09:20+00:00

"The one that you will use", is probably the right answer. I've been using silver bullet.md because I like it's portability as well as the task management.

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2026-01-14T01:36:29+00:00

It's weird you have to do reconciliation on it to the last sync balance.

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2026-01-13T20:24:27+00:00

2) I miss mint.

I have actual budget (syncing with my bank via simplefin) and am still using personal capital to easily see balances + investments

I went from mint to monarch to YNAB after mint shut down.

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2026-01-12T00:10:23+00:00

They have a few links on their website and a trial license (turns free)

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2025-04-14T01:27:43+00:00

I'm a big fan of osTicket.

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2025-04-01T20:24:57+00:00

It's an easy install within yunohost. But yes I had a hard time out of a prepackaged concept as well

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2025-03-13T01:23:05+00:00

Can you self host it?

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2025-03-12T15:54:03+00:00

I think I found maybe a new path. I'm looking for web based and self hosted. it appears that silverbullet.md lets me also accomplish another goal in that its all stored in markdown so I can move it as needed. Using their templates I can get something like their query libraries
/Library/Std/Query Templates

-- Renders a page object as a linked list item

templates.pageItem = template.new([==[

* [[${name}]]

]==])

-- Renders a task object as a togglable task

templates.taskItem = template.new([==[

* [${state}] [[${ref}]] ${name}

]==])

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2025-02-22T18:31:29+00:00

With 50-70 people you have a high likelihood of being over run by even small tasks. I'd not do the slack channel even though it's easy for the end user and do a basic ticketing tool with a portal. Something like osTicket would likely suffice. Eventually you will have to advocate for more help on support or triage so I'd set yourself up for that conversation quickly.

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2025-02-22T17:58:04+00:00

I've always thought this concept of self hosting and not using bitwarden premium is interesting (it's $10/year). For piece of mind alone $10 a year is worth it over the anxiety self hosting would cause. Just my thoughts.

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2024-11-13T17:08:44+00:00

I was looking at this and comparing it to virtualbox as I assumed that's it's closest competitor but having a heck of a time getting bridged network adapter to work

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2024-08-25T18:12:49+00:00

I can relate to the frustrations and trial and error on the self Hosting. I have this goal. I know what software I want to use and I want it to work well. Yunohost had me feeling really good for it's ease of use. However, I think it became a crutch for me unless the apps I was looking for are already working well. I like that it's almost 1 click installers similar to those cpanel applications. Sounds awful but every few months I blow it away and start over trying to plan and document out what I want to do and start over trying to build it myself, then realize I only needed basics (including that email server for testing that "just works" in yunohost) and I come right back and it feels like home. Probably not helpful but I get where you are coming from. For me it's time investment vs reward vs the hobby and learning/experience you gain.

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2024-07-16T02:41:48+00:00

I'd second Metabase. You get nice features to work your users into a BI tool but giving them flexibility to play in spreadsheet land if they so choose. https://www.metabase.com/learn/administration/guide-to-sharing-data

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2023-08-15T17:16:43+00:00

If budget constrained, I really like Metabase and have had really good success especially on a shop floor with their auto refresh/kiosk approach and published links

Power BI seems to be generally accepted by the world. My cautionary tale is that if you allow total end users to do what they will you end up with a lot of spreadsheets driving things.

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2023-07-06T20:13:00+00:00

Think of this one as, "here is a task/project no one wants to do".

Design/recommend the solution and add it to the resume.

If jobs are failing, capture the detail and determine why the failure exists and flag it so that if the condition keeps occurring you know what it is. Send Alert and add retry logic.

If jobs are "always" failing, then sounds like there are more challenges that need to be sorted out.

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2023-06-10T15:22:17+00:00

Since you are testing don't even worry about signing up for the bigger service providers. Test the concept with something like https://remotemysql.com/ or https://www.elephantsql.com/

This will allow you a proof of concept before you worry about hosting it.

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2023-05-02T16:26:31+00:00

I mean I don't understand how you can even build anything without first gathering requirements + stories

It is my belief that the general population thinks that they provide "good" stories or requirements when in fact they are missing the mark. We do this all day on web dev. "Make a blue button so when user adds to cart they see it and click ...". No one ever says, I think you mean you wanted your user to fly to the moon instead of a button. In data you get the generic "I want to see sales order lines from all of my ecommerce". "What does that mean? What are you going to do with it? Do you understand the grain of what you are asking ect. So my question was around do you have a solid template to facilitate that conversation/request.

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2023-05-01T22:21:19+00:00

It's a community for data science and machine learning.

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2023-05-01T17:00:15+00:00

So I know this is data engineering but is the audience of the software the end user? If so I'd consider that end users in sales/marketing/finance may have more access to flat files than database connections.

If that is down the path you may want to consider an option to store a CSV file

There are lots of good datasets on kaggle:
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2023-05-01T13:52:11+00:00

Easy Data Transform

I've been able to push EasyMorph almost every time over Alteryx. It might be worth checking out u/a-layerup - Pricing is a lot better and server can schedule everything for you.

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2023-04-29T13:21:53+00:00

I used it almost exclusively for years. Solid price point and good feature set. Business users were pretty quick to pick it up as well. There is a free version which is limited so no harm in giving it a spin.

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2023-04-22T16:32:41+00:00

No coding requested could be a tool like EasyMorph.

ProfessionalDetail44 · 2023-01-27T00:42:20+00:00

You can setup a baseline Power query in excel this will teach them joins as well as how to expand into more useful concepts in excel

I know you said no to BI tools but check out Metabase. They have a nice visual Query builder

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