Hi, does anybody know any notetaking app which supports sync with caldav server ? I am self-hosting a Radicale server which on android with DAVx5 client and jtx Board app works pretty well! I have searched on web but haven’t found any desktop alternative to jtxBoard yet which supports this protocol. Anybody using this setup ?
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It’s not CalDAV, but Joplin supports syncing with WebDAV and works great with Nextcloud (or any WebDAV server, really).
Nextcloud is a love it / hate it kind of thing. Since you’re not already running it, I assume you don’t want to (fwiw, it also does Cal- and CardDAV). Filerun used to be the go-to alternative, but it sold out and is all paid now. I’m not sure what took its place, but at the very least you should be able to setup a basic WebDAV server using just Apache.
The only thing I don’t like about Joplin is it doesn’t have a web app (at least, not as of the last time I checked).
There was another note-taking app I was thinking of and about to suggest, but it syncs over IMAP.
Don’t leave us hanging, what is this mystical notes app that syncs over imap?
I was thinking a desktop app. I’ve played with imapnotes3 and jtxboard.
Umm. Definitely it’s in my to-do list. But for now I just wish Joplin had some caldav features in it :(
Here’s a decent guide to setting up WebDAV with Apache if you’re interested: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-webdav-access-with-apache-on-ubuntu-20-04
You may need to do some tricks in your reverse proxy to get it to coexist with Radicale under the same domain, but it’s doable. Certainly a lot more lightweight than running Nextcloud just for a webdav service.
Thank you. Will check.
+1 for Joplin. Works really great and has some good plugins if you need to extend it.
Maybe it’s not what you want to hear, but I was looking these types of apps, too, some time ago.
Then I noticed that most of the apps are useless for me and found an interesting type of apps that implement a “second brain”. There are a few of them, but I chose Logseq.
Hmm Logseq ui is good.
The only problem is sync across devices. There are not many good options. Maybe it’ll get better with DB support later.
I’ve had a quick look at the FAQs. There it specifically says that the Logseq user is “the king of the data” and that Logseq “works directly with plain-text like Markdown and Org mode”.
If true, synchronisation with Syncthing should Just work™ on all platforms that Logseq is available for, except iOS.
Syncthing works very well for Logseq, I use it on 4 different devices and changes only take a couple seconds to be synchronized. The app even automatically refreshes the data when a change is made so you don’t have to worry about only having one instance open at a time.
KDE’s KOrganizer supports journal entries
But it’s not what I want. KOrganizer’s is a full fledged journal with a date, whereas I need a simple note taking app without a date.
Forgive me.
Its okay man
There seems to be a request to add this to the new Thunderbird CaldDAV features: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/support-vjournal-in-thunderbird/idi-p/46295
I hope they really do it. I’d love notes in Thunderbird.
Yes. I use thunderbird for all the other caldav features. So being able to use the app for notes will be the best thing.
I also used Thunderbird exclusively for a long time, but recently switched, because the rewrite brought a lot of UI problems for me and even some vanishing data with the CardDav contacts. At the moment I use Evolution, the standard Groupware suite of Gnome/Cinnamon/… , which I avoided for a long time because Thunderbird was better at the time. I noticed that it is quite stable now and doing the basic jobs very well and has a good desktop integration (no struggles with thunderbird tray icon!). And Evolution also has Caldav Integration for Notes.
Which OS?
Linux
