Is there any app that combines most organizing features? Should work on web or linux/ios
When I was looking for something similar a couple of years ago, I stumbled upon Lunatask. It doesn’t have a web version, but the development is very active and a web version is a requested feature so maybe we’ll see it some time in the future. There is also a slack community for it where the developer seems to be doing a great job listening to user feedback.
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Notesnook covers notes, reminders, and tasks. You could supplement with Tuta for free encrypted calendar and contacts. You also might want to check out Super Productivity.
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I’ve been on this hunt for a long time and I’ve temporarily* settled on Journal It!, which supports E2EE for text entries (but not media files).
Downside is you have to use your Google/iCloud account to log in (and that’s where all the media content will be stored). Also it has a high learning curve, partly because the app tries to do a lot of things.
* “temporarily” because I’ve been waiting for the reminder feature and the recurring task feature of Anytype.
Is Notesnook reliable and reputable? Mobile apps as well? I keep hearing Joplin is worth considering. I’m currently using Standard Notes, but I wouldn’t mind transitioning to something better, especially if I could self-host it.
I feel like I wasn’t very clear on my help request, and I apologize for that. My current setup is using Proton Calendar for tasks added like events. The thing is, Proton doesn’t notify for events/reminders if you are offline. They added the reformulated app to the last 2025 roadmap, but on a Reddit AMA, they stated that it wouldn’t release until late 2026. What I really wanted was an offline reminder/calendar app for iOS that could export its data so that I could backup it safely. Adding notes together would be the best-case scenario.
What I have already tried:
Proton → Doesn’t notify or have offline access. I know that it requires an account, but it’s the only exception for my use-case.
Notesnook → Needs (paid) account for repeatable notifications or selfhosting
Apple Calendar/Reminders → Doesn’t export for backup without iCloud
Lunatask → Needs account
Joplin → Does not repeat reminders
I have even checked noteapps.io, a database that aggregates various notes apps by features, but it feels that this is almost impossible to achieve. Should I just wait for the reformulated Proton calendar app?
Not sure but maybe you could write some code and use ntfy to push a notification to yourself when an event is about to start? Hence doing your own notification system. 
Not sure if you have the knowledge for that, but this could be private and quite a good solution overall[1].
ask some help to LLMs for the coding part if needed ↩︎
I have to pay in order to self-host Notesnook?
I think that you can get better quallity by chosing the best tool for every task’s rather then trying to get something that does everything.
To one thing and do it well.
Devs need food too
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Obsidian is just a great piece of software overall.
It is powerful but not bloated.
And can be kept to a minimum. You don’t have a lot of those in our day and age.
Obsidian is closed source.
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Yes, everybody said it above already.
Doesn’t mean the software can’t be great.
You can open it on your machine while it’s running to inspect it.
So, not a full blackbox. I’m mostly talking about the feel/features, especially in comparison to something like the awful Notion.
From my point of view the combination of all these 3 things:
- handling sensitive data
- having network permission
- being closed source
Is reason enough to avoid the software.
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3 answers:
- handling sensitive data: don’t put any in there. A PKM can work great alongside a Password manager and Paperless. You decide on what you put there. I don’t put anything too personal/sensitive.
- having network permission: you can handle the sync yourself[1] and disable/block the network access after the initial download. Yet still benefit from all the nice plugins locally. It doesn’t need permanent connectivity in itself.
- being closed source: yes, nothing to disagree with here.
I tend to agree. Yet, there is nothing as good nowadays with the same features that is also FOSS. Depends on what you need and if something FOSS but simpler can just be enough for you.
Also, you can’t just FOSS your entire life, you will always have a few apps that need to have their BS app, like a bank or government ID kind of thing.
Eh, my washing machine is not FOSS.
I don’t have the time to DIY and self-FOSS all my software all the time.
Hence, I do make the concession here. Personal choice that you can opt out from, I do have no stock at Obsidian HQ. 
quite a few community plugins exist for that ↩︎
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No. I may have phrased it in a weird way, but the repeatable notification thing is either available while selfhosting or on a paid plan.
That’s really why I gave up on an all-in-one app that I feel doesn’t exist actually. My current approach is just to have an offline calendar app that just notifies tasks/events.
Obsidian could be great overall, but the network permission can’t be disabled on the mobile iOS app and it doesn’t support reminder notifications 
That would be great, but it sure would lack the integration to calendar feel. Wouldn’t be the best use case for me because I don’t really know how to code :')
A note app, if used excesevly will store many private notes.
Do you mean copying the files around or is there real sync solution for this?
All apps published by the government or because the government contracted a company to do so, should be fully FOSS / Public domain (attach licenses for both to have full clearance).
Lukely, my government is open sourcing all their software and even publishing it on F-Droid.
This is indeed an issue.
The government should either utilizes something like GNU Taler or the people should switch to cryptocurrency.
Nobody should be forced to use closed source software for doing essential things liek banking.
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For the time being I’ve settled with Proton Calendar because I can export .ics files from the webapp and it notifies me about events when I’m connected to the internet.