I self-host Notesnook and found it easy to set up. Been using it as my main note-taking app for years now and I’m really happy with it.

Triliumnext can do everything you want. Its pretty damn powerful

Notesnook. And if you like it, buy the pro ASAP since they’re raising the prices this week.

Others have mentioned Syncthing as a sync solution. I’d like to add a couple points:

Syncthing can work fine even for solutions that are intended to use their own sync, provided it’s a single-user setup. You’re not likely to make simultaneous changes on 2 devices, so collisions are unlikely.

Also for using Syncthing, I recommend Syncthing-Fork for Android - it moves sync conditions into the folder/job rather than global. Very useful when you have jobs you want always syncing, and jobs you want to only sync on wifi and power.

If using iOS there’s an ST client called Möbius Sync ($5), developed by a company the financially supports Syncthing.

For Windows, get SyncTrayzor - it makes running and managing ST easier.

Docmost?

I use Logseq with ToDoList plugin to handle task list. Logseq is similar to obsidian but open-source. And to syncronize notes among devices, I use syncthing. No need to selfhost.

I use Tasks.org with caldav (Radicale) on android and thunderbird on pc, would that work?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tasks

I see tasks.org supports etesync, which encrypts data. I have never used it though

What I want is being able to hand draw something quickly in my notes, what’s the app that has text and drawings?

Not sure of your specific needs, but I feel that self hosting (i.e. setting up a proper server) is unnecessary. Just pick a local first program and use it with syncthing.

The usual trio (which may be overkill) are Obsidian (admittedly not open source), Trillium, and logseq.

I spent several years looking for the perfect selfhosted solution to this, but ultimately I realized an offline solution was just going to be better. So I started using Obsidian which is as simple or complex as you want with no paywall.

Some of the self hosted solutions I’ve tried were:

• Memos
• Blinko

You might want to list the platform you want to use it on. I’m assuming that you’re wanting to access this on a smartphone of some sort?

Emacs and org-mode.

Have you considered Kanban apps? All of them should support A+C. I’ve used Wekan and Kanboard. Hope this helps your searching!

I use notesnook but I don’t self host, just the app locally. It has an option to insert a task list into the note, and that has drag and drop reordering. It also encrypts at rest, and has text search. Hope that helps your decision.

Every now and then this question comes up. It’s a timeless software engineering conundrum. Kind of like how med students might start to think they have all kinds of diseases and conditions because they’re learning all these symptoms.

Software engineers, especially new ones, tend to be heavily biased toward applying technical solutions to non-technical problems. Most never actually grow out of this.

I’ll advise what I advise every time someone approaches me or one of my peer groups with this very question:

Get yourself a notebook and a pen.

I’m dead serious, not trolling, and not some kind of technophobe zealot.

When it comes down to it, if you let go of what you think you need in a to-do list app, you’ll find that what you actually need is much simpler.

Notebooks are e2e encrypted. Self hosted. Offline. As ephemeral as you like. Indexable for search. Versatile. Take a picture of a page if you really want to. OCR it if you need to.

Pen and paper.