bonus: most of these (and some of the other suggestions on this thread, like SearXNG) protect your privacy better than Google does

another thing: I think most people answering here aren’t thinking about how it would feel to have the statistic they’re choosing over their own heads.

None. Someday, some company will build and sell a tool that actually does that, and it will be hella privacy invasive. Actually, it’ll probably just be another invasive feature added to the Ray Ban perv glasses.

I generally take everything they say with a giant grain of salt, but that was somewhat true even before 2022. Most of the AI-reliant people I know were never that great at evaluating sources of information. It’s just that the problem is far more pronounced now.

When you talk to people IRL outside of work, some of them are pretty cool and helpful for no other reason than because they want to be.

I’m not going to use that one (the website makes a big deal about using AI to automatically tag things, and I’m trying to reduce LLMs in my digital life), but thanks for sharing! It otherwise looks like a cool app.

Thanks for sharing these!

Oh, OK! I probably won’t do any of those because I’m trying to reduce my dependence on big tech companies and dislike Dropbox, but thank you so much for explaining.

Ok, OK. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain all of this! Sounds like you really do need to have multiple tools working together. I might try Raindrop/Recoll/SingleFile for something.

Thank you so much! This is really helpful. Logseq in particular sounds pretty interesting.

Thank you so much for taking the time to put all of this together! You’re awesome.

I think for my purposes, Obsidian is probably private enough (I don’t share my PC with anyone), but I am interested in exploring more FOSS stuff. I don’t really mind a lack of features/plugins or a dated interface at the moment. My bigger concern is that CherryTree and a lot of other indie FOSS stuff seem geared toward people who are more tech-savvy than I am (the website and download pages seem figure-out-able for me with a little work, but don’t exactly have great UX for non-techies). I’m not a developer or IT person, just a regular office worker type who has become very frustrated with “AI” and big tech companies, but I’m trying to learn more about how things work anyway. I might end up trying both Obsidian and CherryTree.

Thank you! I keep seeing Obsidian mentioned in different places online. If you don’t mind, I have a few more questions:

-Can you add personal notes that are longer than hashtags to your links/articles in Obsidian? -Can you do the above on Cherrytree? -Are there any disadvantages of Cherrytree over Obsidian? -What makes Obsidian not very private?

Thank you so much! Sounds like a pretty cool system.

Awesome, thank you so much!

Oh, OK. Thank you so much!!

Oh, OK. Do you know if you can add notes about links/articles that are more in-depth than just short tags?

Man, I don’t think I want to print out EVERYTHING, but that would definitely be a privacy-preserving option! Nobody can hack into your notes on articles or guess what you’ve been thinking about from your files if they aren’t even on a computer

Zotero looks nice. It looks like you can choose to sync data across devices. Do you know if you choose to sync some things but not everything, or is just an on/off thing where you either sync everything or nothing? Thanks!

Anytype looks interesting. I like that it doesn’t need wifi for access and appears to be privacy/security focused (although I really need to learn more about how things like no server/peer-to-peer sync work). Do you find that you need a paid plan for personal use or is the free version enough?

Joplin looks neat! How does self-hosting in the cloud work? (I thought the choice was usually self-host vs. cloud host, but I know almost nothing about hosting.)