Hi all, I need your expertise please :)

tldr: I’m looking for something to create and share lists with my wife, but that also allows her to edit them, preferably with a WYSIWYG editor, on both our Android devices and Windows and Linux computers. To complicate things, I help to run a small music festival, and some sort of collaboration tool would be helpful there too. Joplin looks great, but I can’t figure out the collaboration without using their server.

The longer version is, I’m taking my family to visit the in-laws, and was making a list of things we need to take. I have complicated medical needs, and my kid is autistic, so there are things that we cannot forget. I realised that a list that we can both work on would be better, and would be something that we could use in the future for things like medical appointments.

While I was looking for some software, I realised that it would also be helpful for the music festival committee.

I’m looking for something that we can edit on any device, and have the changes show up immediately on any other logged in device. I want anyone with permission to be able to edit the document too. Ideally it needs a WYSIWYG editor, and needs to be simple to use once it’s set up.

Joplin looks great, but it’s not clear whether collaboration is only available through Joplin Cloud, or whether it’s available with a self hosted server.

Etherpad and Padland look good, but Etherpad doesn’t currently have mobile support, and I can’t tell whether Padland is standalone or needs Etherpad to work.

I’m happy to self host something, but the simpler it is to run and use, the better :)

Thanks for reading through all of that :D

  • @[email protected]
    4•6 months ago

    This is tough.

    I use OneNote as my notebook currently. It updates very fast on phone and pc. It’s not ideal for your use-case, perhaps. But you can share notebooks easily. (Though no Linux client, you can edit notebooks in a browser if they’re on Onedrive).

    I also use a couple shopping list apps, my current go to is Anylist. I have a bunch of lists in there, and easily shareable, great for shopping with other people. But I also use it for packing lists, task lists, etc, and you can login via a browser, which works well. Sync is instant.

    I’ve tried a few other notebook type apps (Joplin, etc,) and they all have their pros/cons.

    Maybe hit the self-hosting community, there’s an ongoing discussion about notebooks.

    • TipponOPEnglish
      1•6 months ago

      Thanks for the reply :)

      I didn’t know that OneNote could share. That might be ok for at home. I’ll have a look at Anylist too. Ideally though, I want to try to go with open source software.

      I’ll have a look for the discussion now, thanks :)

      • @[email protected]
        2•6 months ago

        Oh yea, I get the push for open source. It’s why I’ve tried 3 or 4 open source apps already - I really want to get away from OneNote (I’ve been using it for about 15 years, it’s a cluttered mess). It’s a great piece of software, but it requires either OneDrive or a SharePoint server to sync to mobile devices. To sync between PCs, you just need a shared folder - the app is smart about updates all on it’s own (at least for a few people).

        Eventually I’ll settle on a replacement. And then do the work of transitioning all that data…Sigh.

    • bookworm
      1•6 months ago

      what instances of joplin are available,within fediverse?