Ooh, I lost track of that one. I remember seeing the trailer but it was at least a year ago and completely forgot about it. I’ll definitely check it out!

Micro Mages is so good!

I have. it’s a solid resource. Was mostly hoping to some specific homebrew games to try before buying.

I’ve heard good things. I will admit I don’t like hiding features that I would consider to be essential behind a paywall. But I may have to give it another try.

Damn, that’s a great price. Who is your VPS provider so I can keep an eye out for similar deals?

I’d love to try it out but only self-hosted. And so far I can’t get it spun up. To be clear, I’m sure that’s a me problem. That said, the instructions are pretty spartan and a few commands to run and “that’s it. you can now create an account and login!” but that doesn’t work for me.

I currently have Immich running and it’s good. But I’ve had two updates break my install, requiring hours of work to get it back to working reliably. They have a disclaimer that this can happen and isn’t ready for production yet, so I don’t fault them for that. I’m just on the hunt for something more reliable. Ente seems like it’s been around a good while. I just need to figure out what I’m doing wrong. The S3 backend is a pretty great feature, imo.

Where do you like to find them? I looked at the Megathread, but couldn’t really find a retro-centric source.

I love Vimm’s Lair and have used it a bunch. Only reason I didn’t start there this time is I want a new build for a Pi 5 and boy, Vimm’s is slooooooow. Great project and service offered though.

I was mostly worried about coming across some junk roms that won’t play, etc. But that’s probably not so common.

Good point. I think you’re right. I suppose that way I can cut out some of the junk roms I’ll never play. Good call.

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!

Good to know. I’m really only using it for shopping lists and non-scheduled to do/tasks… Which is how I used Google Keep.

Tasks that have a deadline or I need an alert/reminder goes into Tasks, everything else goes into Obsidian.

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

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

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.

It is very close. But it has more of a day view/outline focused approach which clashes with the way my brain wants to work. And seemingly, you can’t change that in the settings or with plugins.

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.

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.

I’ve tried to like Logseq but with it’s outline focused approach, it didn’t jive with what I use a pkm for.

Obsidian is great, and I agree the sync is too much. It does work flawlessly but Im going to try Syncthing again after my one year is up.

Another newcomer that is promising is Acreom. Doesnt require an account on PC. Currently does on mobile though. But like Obsidian, it is a pile of markdown files. No weird database silliness like Joplin does.