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Anyone know of self-hostable alternatives for this sort of service? I have never used Evernote or OneNote but always been intruguied.

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I use org-mode with Syncthing. It's imperfect, but it's still pretty great — and I own all of my data, which is important.

I can't recomend Syncthing enough, most "cloud apps" can be replaced pretty effictively by vim, Syncthing, and some obscure unix tool. I will also agree that it isn't perfect but I haven't seen anything better yet.

Started to use org-mode recently after seeing its features. Do you have guides you'd recommend for someone learning emacs and org-mode?

The built-in emacs tutorial is good, as I recall, but I went through it 15 years or so ago.

For org-mode, the documentation on their site is good, but I also found myself referencing this [0] site a lot. The author happened to do a lot of things in ways I liked, or near enough that I could borrow their config and tune it to my own preferences. Borrowed piecemeal, not wholesale. I recommend starting with stock org-mode and emacs and only adding pieces as you understand them. Otherwise you end up with a non-stock configuration and other people may not be able to help you out as readily because you can't identify whether erroneous behavior is emacs or your specific configuration.

[0] http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html

It's not really a guide, but I strongly recommend newcomers take a look at emacs prelude (https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude), which is a really good starter kit. I recommend turning guru-mode off (AFAICT its only use is to holler at you to use C-n instead of down-arrow), and turning helm on everywhere.

I know a lot of folks really like spacemacs — I'm not a fan of the vi keybindings, or of its version of emacs-style keybindings, but regardless it's a really well-made emacs starter kit.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9206002

I've been using QOwnNotes [0] for a while now, and while it's not quite a drop-in replacement for Evernote yet (there's no web clipper and the mobile apps are a bit rubbish), the pace of development is really impressive.

[0] http://www.qownnotes.org/

I love Quiver - no mobile app yet but amazing UI and format.

If you have a Synology NAS, you can use Synology Note Station.

https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/6.0/packages/NoteStation

Maybe [Braindump][0]?

I'm too heavily invested in org-mode to switch to this, but it does seem like the best fit for this sort of service.

[0]O https://github.com/levlaz/braindump

I use Zim Wiki. It's not as feature complete (no web access, no mobile clients), but it's the best solution I could find (for Linux).

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