I'm currently using a self hosted instance of XWiki on my NAS to write down long term notes just for myself. But it runs very slow with the database and limited hardware ressources. And since I only access it from my Windows PC on my LAN I figured I'd just need an application that does the same job and save the files on my NAS.

So does anyboy know a good Open Source application for Windows that can be used like that? It needs features like these:

WYSIWYG editor
tables
font colors
font highlights
text code
headings
embed images
embed YouTube links
(un-)ordered lists
bold text
underlined text

Thanks in advance!

Edit: Added WYSIWYG editor to the list.

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[–] anaximander 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm a big fan of Obsidian. It's not open source, but it's free forever and has a rich theming and plugin ecosystem, and it works on just regular markdown files in folders so you're not locked in by proprietary file formats or anything, you can switch to basically anything that edits text and lose nothing. There's paid sync and publish features, but because it's just ordinary text files, you can replicate those for free with OneDrive and Jekyll, or your favourite tools of similar function.

[–] Vexz@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. I just checked it out but it's the same problem as with Joplin: Tables can only be inconveniently created with markdown code. I really don't like that. :(

[–] kalipike@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@Vexz yeah if you want other tables you'd need to use embeds to embed tables from an external source unfortunately.

@anaximander

[–] arandomthought@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use Obsidian for my "personal knowledge management" and I absolutely love it. Yes it's not open source, but as you said, there is no "vendor lock" you are manouvering yourself into because what you're creating is just a folder with text files. Obsidian is just the thing that makes it easier to traverse and work with.

Edit: Seeing that you need tables: Obsidian uses markdown tables but there are some convenience plugins to work with them more easily. There are even plug ins that let you use excel-style functions in markdown tables but this is the devil's work and I haven't used it so far. 😅

[–] kalipike@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@anaximander absolutely this! I use Obsidian for my notes/PKM and love it. While not FOSS, you're not locked in at all. I write technical documentation using it for work. Our chosen documentation system doesn't integrate with it (not without me building a custom API), but because it's essentially just Markdown files, and the platform supports editing Markdown, I can document as I please then upload it to our platform. It's a great piece of software with a good dev team and the software has generally good structure/ideology. I never hesitate to recommend it!

@Vexz

[–] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 1 points 1 year ago

There's also logseq, but I also use Obsidian, I'm not sure how those two compare.
For syncing the files I use syncthing, works really nice without going through any cloud provider.