Concept

QOwnNotes

  • QOwnNotes stores notes to your note folder as markdown files
  • It can talk to your Nextcloud / ownCloud server to publicly share notes with other people
  • You can also access your note history and trash on your Nextcloud / ownCloud server via the QOwnNotesApi Nextcloud app
  • Todo lists on your Nextcloud / ownCloud server can be accessed from within QOwnNotes
  • QOwnNotes does not sync your notes and media / attachment files!

Markdown note files

  • You own all your notes and media / attachment files!
  • Your notes are stored as plain-text Markdown files on your desktop computer
  • You can use any text editor you like beside QOwnNotes to view or edit your note files
  • Sync your notes with other devices (desktop & mobile) with your Nextcloud or ownCloud sync client to your server

QOwnNotes browser extension

You can manage your browser bookmarks with QOwnNotes or use it as a web clipper.

Tips

The browser extensions works offline, no internet connection needed. Please visit QOwnNotes Web Companion browser extension for more information.

QOwnNotes command-line snippet manager

You can manage your command snippets with QOwnNotes and execute them on the command-line.

Tips

Please visit QOwnNotes command-line snippet manager for more information.

Nextcloud desktop sync client

Sync your notes with other devices (desktop & mobile) with your Nextcloud or ownCloud sync client to your server.

Tips

Of course other solutions, like Dropbox, Syncthing, Seafile or BitTorrent Sync can be used too to sync your notes and other files.

You can also use git to sync with tools like gitomatic.

Nextcloud server

To work with your notes online you can use servers like Nextcloud or ownCloud.

You can host your own server or use hosted solutions.

There is a community-maintained list of Nextcloud providers, as well as a list of devices with Nextcloud.

Portknox has reported they have QOwnNotesAPI installed.

Tips

Of course other solutions, like Dropbox, Syncthing, Seafile or BitTorrent Sync can be used too to host your notes and other files.

QOwnNotesAPI Nextcloud app

QOwnNotesAPI lets you access your server-side trashed notes and note versions.

Tips

Please visit QOwnNotesAPI Nextcloud App for more information.

Nextcloud Notes server app

Use Nextcloud Notes to edit your notes in the web.

Warning

Keep in mind that Nextcloud Notes currently only supports up to one level of subfolders.

Nextcloud Deck server app

You can use QOwnNotes to quickly create cards in Nextcloud Deck.

Nextcloud Notes mobile app

To access your Nextcloud / ownCloud notes from your mobile device you can use different apps.

Android

Tips

You could also use any sync-tool like Synchronize Ultimate or FolderSync to sync your note files and use software like neutriNotes or Markor to edit your notes.

iOS

Tips

You can also use Notebooks and sync your notes via WebDAV, there is a good tutorial at Taking Notes with Nextcloud, QOwnNotes, and Notebooks

api.qownnotes.org

This is an online service provided by QOwnNotes to check if there is a new release of the application available.

It is talking to GitHub and checks for the latest release, gets a suited download url and compiles the changes from the changelog compared to the version of QOwnNotes you are currently using as html to show in the update dialog.

In addition, it also provides the Release RSS Feed and an implementation of the legacy update checking api for older versions of QOwnNotes.

Tips

You can access the source code for api.qownnotes.org on GitHub.

QOwnNotes Web App

You can insert photos from your mobile phone into the current note in QOwnNotes on your desktop via the web application on app.qownnotes.org.

Tips

Please visit QOwnNotes Web App for more information.