"Notes"-app needs account and login? Alternative that works locally and offline?

Using /e/OS Applications
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Hello,
I just got my Fairphone 5 with eOS from Murena. I tried the notes app but it wants me to log in with a Murena ID. Is there a way to use the app just without login locally on the phone? Or is there an alternative app that would just take notes without any extras?

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Hello,
if you just want local notes on your phone: There are several open source notes apps without any trackers, I am using “privacyfriendlynotes” from F-Droid Store which works for me.
Tom

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Welcome here!
Once I try this one: https://github.com/maltaisn/another-notes-app

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Thank you for your reply! I will have a look and try it out :+1:

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Thanks!
I will give that a try!

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There is a gitlab issue (raised 4 years ago but still not fixed) about this.

What you want to do - use Notes without a cloud account - was implemented in the NextCloud Notes app (from which the /e/ app is forked), so you could just use that. I believe that when you first run the NextCloud app, you will be prompted to create an account, and you can choose to create a local (i.e. on-device only) acount instead of a cloud account

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