This thread is ONLY to talk about Keyboards, Notes, Maps and Music Players. I add video Music Players because probably some people want to know about good FOSS alternatives.

Little context

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Why not build a megathread with the best and most reliable FOSS apps too help someone who want to join on the bright side of open source?

We (because this is not from me, this is from us) need to share thoughts, ideas and all things you want to say. Dont be shy. Upvote the comments you like and agree; disagree and tell why you disagree. This is will be different from others threads because this need a proper user opinion, and your opinions will be VERY important to build this. In short, your opinions and thoughts will be the fundamental source to build this.

I will read ALL comments to build this. Even if this has a million comments, I’m going to waste time reading it. Whatever it takes.

Your opinions about it are CRUCIAL and FUNDAMENTAL, because your opinions is the main-base to build the megathread.

Please, consider share your ideas and thoughts about apps on previous threads. Your opinions are really important to build final megathread. You can upvote or downvote posts so that comments gain strength and agreement between the community.

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Discussion about Contacts, SMS and Dialers app is here.

Discussion about Calculators, Cameras and Calendars apps is here.

Discussion about Manager files, Recorders, Galleries and Video editors apps is here.

  • sleep_walker@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago
    • Keyboard: OpenBoard (works great, support anonymous mode, my layout, emojis, paste, move cursor using finger over space button, longer deletes using finger over backspace)
    • Music Player: Odyssey (I don’t rely on ID3 tags but directory structure instead - there is too little of those players who use it)
    • Music Player: ViMusic (FOSS interface to Youtube Music)
    • Music Player: RadioDroid (for online radio stations)
  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    OINotepad lost the ability to export notes to a file.

    What is another notes app that is single press to start a new note, after app opening. Has no-nag auto-save if app is closed halfway through writing a note. Can auto title the note with the first line of the note. Can export all notes to a clear-readable file. Has search within a single note. And can sort by most recently modified.

    Prefer on fdroid, but open to any FLOSS solution(on obtanium etc.)

    OINotepad covered all this. Standard notes comes close but I can’t search within an individual note.

    Please help. (c:

    • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Notesnook?

      It has a premium tier with some features locked behind that, so try the freebie first to see if it’s what you want. But I think if covers all those bases. It’s other selling point is encryption, security, and privacy. So by default it’ll prompt for biometrics or password to open the app. You can turn off a bunch of that if it ends up being too much friction for the quick note taking you’re insinuating.

  • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    I’m extremely picky about Notes apps. I’ve tested so many Open source as well as closed source apps. I’ll be interested in what others are using, but the features I want are:

    • Cross platform (Android, Linux, and MacOS)
    • Universal format - markdown is a bonus
    • Good task handling with checklist support

    So what I’ve settled with is Obsidian (not open source) due to its simplicity of reading and writing to a folder hierarchy of plain text files. But since it sucks at task and checklists, I’ve been using Quillpad. It only syncs with Nextcloud at the moment, but there is promise of plain text file and bring-your-own-sync-solution on the roadmap.

    Notesnook is a nice app, but since it’s all E2EE, there is no plain text without exporting your notes manually. Shame too because it handles tasks and checklists very nicely.

    Honorable mention: Acreom it’s not open source yet, but that is on the roadmap. It is local first and plain text files on desktop OSes…but not on Android, meaning of you want to sync between your desktop and mobile you have to use their cloud. And I don’t want to do that.

    Joplin gets mentioned constantly. But it adds weird metadata to every text file and changes the titles of the files to some garbled hexadecimal string, which makes it impossible to know what you’re looking at at the file level. And the task management/checklists is awful. Android app is bad too. I’m sure I’ll get hate for hating on the FOSS golden child, but that’s ok. This is simply my opinion. Like I said I’m very picky.

    • jackpot@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      thoughts on markor? also, what do you mean acreom plans open source? what license?

      • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        I keep trying Markor. UI is rough though. And not a fan of the checklist and task management within the app. I do like that it’s just simple text files for sure. But not a very elegant solution.

        Not sure what license Acreom is going to open source if under. But it’s on their Roadmap

    • jcrabapple@fedia.io
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      6 months ago

      @Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml it is really hard to find the perfect Notes app. I’ve tried a bunch and settled on Quillpad, synced with Nextcloud.

      @dez@lemmy.ml

      • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        I do like Quillpad quite a bit. It’s the best Google Keep replacement out there at the moment. I would rather it not be tied to Nextcloud, and supposedly that is eventually coming. But for now I’m using it daily alongside Obsidian.

  • qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago
    • Openboard
    • Quillnote
    • Organic Maps
    • ViMusic - music streaming but after 1st listen songs are cached for offline play.

    Edit: Now that I think about it, I use session for taking notes and “syncing” them with my PC. I guess any messaging app with a desktop client would work.

    • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Quillnote has been abandoned. Quillpad is the fork that has a somewhat active development, if that matters to you.

      • sweetpotato@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        Why is it bad that it’s been abandoned? It works fine for me. Are there security concerns or something?

        • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml
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          6 months ago

          Im not certain in regards to security in this context. But any new features in Quillpad you’d miss. If that’s important to you. Otherwise, keep on using quillnote instead!

  • therebedragons@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    I’ve enjoyed anysoft and floris keyboards but I want something open source with gif support. Might go back to swiftkey just because of it.

    • Aaron@beehaw.org
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      6 months ago

      I’m physically addicted to SwiftKey and it’s still very good, but, it is owned by Microsoft now in case that influences anyone’s decisions here.

  • fievel@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    For notes I’m using Joplin with sync with desktop client through a nextcloud instance. Really a very nice app if you want sync with multiple devices anc user friendly interface.

    For maps OsmAnd, I even pay a subscription to support the project (and have hourly updated maps which is pretty cool when I fix wood paths in openstreetmap).

  • Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    ##Keyboards

    Florisboard is back!

    Openboard is sadly outdated, but there was some steady updated fork

    Simple keyboard (NOT the simple tools), but it doesn’t have many fucntions, but works just great and looks on a million $

    ##Notes

    Many good options, but i would like to see an gpg encrypted notes with local storage

    Honorable mentions: logseq, simple notes

    Maps

    Gmaps WV (donate to divest, plz), organic maps

    ##Music

    Everything that works with jellyfin, bauh was good, but not updated in a while

    • TheWoozy@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      According to fdroid, florisboard is in beta, but hasn’t been updated since june, 2022. Is it still active?

  • FuryMaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    What’s the best alternative to Gboard?

    I’ve gotten use to swiping to type, and the English (Australia) (PC) QWERTY layout with the number row at the top, and hold-press numbers are the equivalent QWERTY keyboard symbols.

    Am finding it hard to replace.

  • root@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’m using “Unexpected Keyboard” right now. I like that it’s different in that I dont have to long press a key in order to input punctuation. It’s a swipe from the center of a key to a corner and I think it’s that little bit faster. :)

    Also doesn’t have auto-correct like other FOSS keyboards.