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HelixNotes is completely free, open source, with no bloat. Your notes should be yours.

So we made sure they are. https://helixnotes.com/

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[–] Bad_company_daps@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Genuinely curious what bloat does Obsidian come with? But yeah my first thought too was FOSS Obsidian

[–] ArkHost@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Electron = bloat. That's why HelixNotes is Tauri.

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

Electron runtime in general. It seems all of the popular cross platform note taking / knowledge garden apps are electron.

I long so much for a native version that I started learning QTQuick to do just this.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 1 points 22 hours ago

Personally I have only a hundred notes or so and really only the basic plugins and it still takes up to 10 seconds to load and become usable on my phone.

It is definitely not fast loading up but it is very fast in most other use cases I have seen. At work I use it with getting more towards 1000 notes and it works fine there usually, though there is some windows+ electron weirdness