[eviks]

What a coincidence, was just looking for a replacement of Simplenote!

With hundreds of note taking apps coming and going, is there any single performant cross-platform non-Electron app with great conflict resolution for simple notes? Just to be more useful than an overpowered code editor + a file cloud?

Checked just 2 of these conditions here (native Windows and macOS and some iOS startup benchmarks) and there is literally not a single app!!! (to be fair, not every app is likely tested, but even without those it's 6 apps)

https://noteapps.info/features?group=performance

[bryanhogan]

Obsidian is great and highly performant, even though it's using Electron. Electron is a huge advantage, faster development and the option to customise it easily with plugins.

[eviks]

It's not highly performant, its startup time is a multiple of that of native apps. Nothing is easy about plugins, APIs you expose/maintain define that, not Electron, and those can be good/bad in any system. Electron gives easier access to UI styling, but then again, real "easily" comes from the structure/stability of your UI, otherwise your plugins would break all the time. Also, same as with APIs - e.g, Joplin is Electron, but you can only style on a desktop. Then, of course, there are plenty of Electron apps that you can't style at all and that don't support plugins.

I'm happy for devs' "faster development", but as a user I care about "faster use", which Electron blocks outright

[jauntywundrkind]

Obsidian just launched Obsidian CLI too, if that helps. And sync.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197267

[aitchnyu]

I use Ticktick for my Markdown notes and todos. I can add tasks from my lockscreen. I have a single view of notes and tasks. Costs me 5 biriyanis per year, yes its localized pricing.

Been meaning to switch to an open source app out of principle, one which can handle rich notes too.

[coldtrait]

I should measure my expenses in biriyanis more.

[tln]

I don't think even Simplenote was native on Windows (despite what noteapps.info says), there is no simplenote-windows repo and all signs point to simplenote-electron

[eviks]

yeah, unfortunately it was yet another Electron wrapper on Windows, though mobile/Mac (where it's more important) was native.

The website's idea is great, but unfortunately it's not comprehensive/reliable, otherwise finding an alternative would be much easier.

[clickety_clack]

You could probably vibe code the perfect one for yourself at this point.