Notetaking app that looks too good to be true? - Siyuan

Recently stumbled upon this note-taking app called SiYuan, but it honestly looks a bit too good to be true(?). Has anyone here used it or got any experience with it? Trying to replace Obsidian is a difficult task, and I’ve been through almost all note-taking apps there are out there, however this one looks fairly similar.

Link to Repo;

github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan

Link to project;

b3log.org/siyuan/en/

clmbmb,

It really looks too good to be true, but I think I’ll give it a try these days.

lightnsfw,

Looks like you can host the syncing yourself. That would put it above Obsidian for me assuming it supports templates and images as well.

Sunny,

Yeah just seen that too, even has an Unraid template too.

notabot,

You can sync Obsidian yourself too, it’s just a bunch of files, so anything that’ll handle them works.

lightnsfw,

I have it syncing with nextcloud but I get permissions issues that prevent me from actually using it on android. I can only view my documents on my mobile devices. Wasn’t able to find a good solution to that.

notabot,

I’m using syncthing, but I think I recall the sort of issue you mention. Android locks down cross-app access quite hard, but if you move the files to your SD card (or tge emulated one if you don’t have one) it acts as shared storage and your sync program and obsidian can both read and write to it. On my device, the path is /storage/emulated/0/Documents/<whatever>

lightnsfw,

DUDE. I had it on the SD card but in the other /storage/0000-0000/android/media path. Just changed it to the one you suggested and it’s working now. Thank you so much. I’ve been looking for an answer to that on and off for like 2 months

thegreekgeek,
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Yeah I saw this yesterday when I was installing Heliboard. It looks interesting but I think I’m going to run with silverbullet next.

dnu,

How come?

thegreekgeek,
@thegreekgeek@midwest.social avatar

Honestly I’ve been thinking about this and I think I might try to mix the two. I really like silverbullet’s built in query feature and being able to bake the results into the note with a command. That seems better than how dataview does it and might work well for automating my day-to-day file handling.

Sunny,

also looks like a good option

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