When comparing Draft vs Tomboy, the Slant community recommends Tomboy for most people. In the question“What is the best cross-platform note-taking app?” Tomboy is ranked 14th while Draft is ranked 32nd. The most important reason people chose Tomboy is:
All the components are free, opensource, and allows self-hosting the sync server.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Markdown to-dos
Draft supports Github style Markdown Todos.
Pro Hemingway Mode
Draft will turn off the ability to delete anything in the document. It will be possible to only write at the end of what's already written. It won't allow going back; only forward.
"Write drunk; edit sober" -Ernest Hemingway.
Pro Cloud sync
Documents can be imported from cloud services like Dropbox, Evernote, Box, Google Drive.
Pro Version control
With documents shared with Draft, any changes collaborator made by collaborators are on their own copy of the document, and the user gets to accept or ignore each individual change made.
Pro Free and open source
All the components are free, opensource, and allows self-hosting the sync server.
Pro Can be extended with add-ins
If Tomboy doesn't have the features you want out of the box, you may be able to find them here as a plug in.