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by grimlck 4544 days ago
Does anyone know of any note apps which support Linux, iOS, Windows, and OS X. Starts up fast. For example, vi starts up fast. Works offline and online. Always syncs without a manual step.

I don't care about pictures, or audio, or OCR, etc. I just want the basics to work and work perfectly.
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daGrevis 4544 days ago
Use Vim and GitHub Gists.

https://github.com/mattn/gist-vim

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SkyMarshal 4544 days ago
Tomboy [1] + webnotes [2] with the notes folder automatically synced to Dropbox/SpiderOak/etc. Or Vim + VimOrganizer/vim-orgmode.

[1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Tomboy

[2]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/webnotes-powered-by-ubuntu/i...

[3]: http://lifehacker.com/5839633/tomboy-is-a-free-lightweight-n...

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gvb 4544 days ago
Dropbox with plain text notes.

On Android (and, I presume, iOS) it caches recently used files for offline access. If you don't access a file on your phone before going off-line it will show up in the directory listing but not actually be accessible.

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klint 4544 days ago
Zim and nvPY are cross-platform and save everything as plain text, which you can open and edit on iOS with Dropbox or something similar.
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nXqd 4544 days ago
just use your favourite text editor and dropbox. It works for me
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