Can you tell me more? Is it FOSS? Is it electron? Is it a UI for a folder of markdown files? Is there a native android app? What is “native” syncing? Do I have to pay for some kind of cloud?

In case anyone is interested, AppImage won’t launch in Q4OS 5.8 (debian based distro), errors are GCC_13.0.0 not found and GLIBC_2.38 not found (which is surprising, I thought appimages ship all required packages together.

Thanks, gotta try this!

Well, there’s Markor on android, so even without a dedicated android app, I can use Helix Notes + syncthing + Markor on the phone and ditch obsidian if it’s good.

Yeah it’s free, I just meant “foss”, I didn’t mean to say obsidian isn’t free.

Also I use syncthing, so I don’t care about built-in sync as long as it’s just a folder of files on my file system.

Do I get it right that this is like Obsidian, but free and open source?

How does it compare to Obsidian? Does it have note linking using square brackets?

Not to be rude or anything like that, where I’m going is not the “we already have obsidian, why you made this” but “currently obsidian is one of the few non-FOSS things I use in Linux, would be happy to replace obsidian with this if it’s a good substitute”.

I don’t use obsidian plugins, so I understand that HelixNotes doesn’t have this whole plugin ecosystem and can’t replace obsidian for people that rely on plugins, but for me it’s fine.

Is android app coming?

Flatpak:

Sucks

User:

Comes to linux community to complain

Maybe try submitting an issue to flatpak devs, contribute to it, or stop using it if it doesn’t work for you?

I never used flatpak and have no issues with drag and drop.

This is unfortunate but anyone who speaks Russian will tell you this app name is hilarious.

the idea of being a true second brain

It’s good that it’s built with this idea, but what is the actual implementation of this idea? What features make it «a true second brain» that other «second brain» apps (obsidian and hundred other note taking apps) don’t have?