i usually don’t use a notes app on my phone. tbh, the first thing i do when i get an android phone is to uninstall all of the preinstalled apps using adb, and that includes google keep. but a notes app is handy, to take down lists, things to remember etc. these days, i try to carry a pen and paper with me, because i spend some time at the church, and i don’t wanna use a phone in there. but yeah, notes apps can come in handy.

over the years, i have tried a very few apps, including standard notes, joplin etc. i have tried termux & nvim, but it never really stuck.

then i went to using whatsapp and telegram, i mean, you know, the message yourself feature, or a private group in TG’s case. but sooner or later, paranoia took over.

till a few days back, i was using some app called notally i found in f-droid. but i had to search for another app again.

since i use obsidian on desktop, i have gotten pretty used to its “live” editing feature. i mean, a <h3> looks like a <h3> until you click on it and you can see the three octothorpes in front of the text. same with every other thing, including lists, images, callouts, mermaid diagrams, everything. and it grew on me. i dislike the two-pane setups where you type in one pane, and the preview shows up in the second one (like in ghostwriter).

so what i basically need is markdown support + live editing feature.

i kept on searching for such a note app for android, and i only found quillpad . quillpad is pretty good. actually, i’m typing this on quillpad right now. quillpad good. btw, it’s discontinued, but it’s pretty well built imo.

the only qualm i have with quillpad is, usually when you add a newline in midst of a list, it now becomes two lists, even in the rendered version. but quillpad renders it as one list. that was kind of a bummer for me, but i don’t mind now.