I’ve been on the hunt for a Google Keep replacement and the most obvious choice is Quillpad. However it can only sync with Nextcloud and that functionality is somewhat broken. For example, if I create a To Do list in Quillpad, I can of course check the boxes as items are completed. I can do the same in the Nextcloud instance under Tasks. But if I create a To Do list in Nextcloud, you cannot interact with them in Quillpad after it syncs. They’re displayed, but you can’t do anything with them.
All that said, the other choices were Zoho Notebooks (don’t trust them) and Carnet (weirdly slow on my phone) as far as similar apps. Quillpad still seems to be the best. Is there a way to get an app that only syncs with Nextcloud to sync with something else? DavX, Webdav, Caldav, etc? The reason I ask is because I wanted to like Nextcloud, but my admittedly older server (HP Microserver G8) struggles even with the optimized builds and it just has way more features than I need. I have a feeling the answer is no, but thought I’d ask anyway before I continue my hunt.
I’ve put a Xeon E3-1265v2, which was already quite the upgrade over the dual core Xeon it came with. And then added another 8GB of RAM for total of 16GB. I have 2x1TB SSDs as my cache drive pool and 3x14TB HDD as my array (1 parity). Running Unraid as the OS. I installed the official Nextcloud docker first and had the app files on the SSD as recommended by you as well as the template itself. I also attempted the official AIO docker which includes everything including “High performance backend for Nextcloud, Talk and TURN-server”. I opted out of Office, Talk, and ClamAV on the AIO install as well as disabling apps within NC that I won’t use like their garbage photos app and Deck, for example. There are a few others I just won’t use. And it still runs poorly. Perhaps we have different opinions regarding acceptable wait times for certain tasks. But I can say even just testing it with very few items synchronized, there have been several conflicts within Tasks and Notes. I’m talking a half dozen notes and tasks colliding with one another when syncing and throwing errors.
Please understand I mean no one any ill will nor am I trying to disparage Nextcloud as a solution (other than the photos app, lol). And I thought I made it clear that I understood it to be a limitation of my hardware, not the app itself. That said I’ve noticed people get weirdly defensive of Nextcloud anytime someone has any complaints about it. Not just here, but on any forum I’ve searched for solutions or options to help with performance. As if they’re personally invested in the company or something. If it works for those folks, more power to you and I wish you many happy years of service with the app and many 1s and 0s flying back and forth with speed and accuracy. It’s just way more app than I need to run.
No problem at all! I was reluctant to comment as it seemed that you weren’t interested in pursuing Nextcloud any further, but went ahead with my comment because I initially had very poor performance when using the basic container running with SQLITE.
I will admit that I had sync issues with a notes program when putting the file on Nextcloud. Some apps just aren’t compatible with that storage paradigm it would seem.
Thanks for the thoughtful replies and good luck on your search!
