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Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal

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Re: Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal

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Post by KenanSulayman »

Philipp__ wrote: post #53

Currently I am very happy with my note taking setup, it consists of 3 modules: 1. Black Moleskine notebook where I write down ideas, and explain myself some complicated code for example. I use it more as a "mind-organiser" if I may say so... 2. Emacs' org-mode, where I write down my dev. progress on weekly level, lay down monthly plans and goals and write down some of the random stuff that I like to order into lists.…

I have black Moleskine notebooks with me all the time, they are a miracle; I tried all kinds of notebooks and their paper does best with gel pens (even though they have moved their production to China iirc?)

It seems to be less common these days, but when I write down an algorithm or visualize it on paper it's so much easier to grasp - I always wondered why I can work with "real paper" better than with ePaper (et al.) even when it's a scan of my handwriting. Is that a thing of routine?

Re: Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal

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Post by omaranto »

tomlong wrote: post #55

This is very close to ideal for me. I've been moving away from Google Keep (and google in general recently, using Fastmail, microg fork of LineageOS on Fairphone 2, orgzly, vim org-mode Nextcloud etc etc) and the one thing that I missed was easily been able to dump photos and images into notes. I've had a play with this briefly and I will be using it full time. As soon as it offers nextcloud sync it really ticks all…

How do you handle syncing in orgzly? My current approach is "remember to hit the sync button", but apparently I suck at that. :) At least it's easy to fix sync conflicts in Emacs using ediff.

Re: Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal

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Post by djhworld »

Does it support inline images?

I'm using Quiver for Mac, but really a cross platform solution would be more appropriate.

I tend to take notes/drawings on paper then take pictures of the useful stuff and put it into Quiver so I can see it in context

Re: Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal

#65

Post by juandazapata »

KenanSulayman wrote: post #61
Philipp__ wrote: post #53

Currently I am very happy with my note taking setup, it consists of 3 modules: 1. Black Moleskine notebook where I write down ideas, and explain myself some complicated code for example. I use it more as a "mind-organiser" if I may say so... 2. Emacs' org-mode, where I write down my dev. progress on weekly level, lay down monthly plans and goals and write down some of the random stuff that I like to order into lists.…

I have black Moleskine notebooks with me all the time, they are a miracle; I tried all kinds of notebooks and their paper does best with gel pens (even though they have moved their production to China iirc?) It seems to be less common these days, but when I write down an algorithm or visualize it on paper it's so much easier to grasp - I always wondered why I can work with "real paper" better than with ePaper (et al.…

Why a miracle?

Re: Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal

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Post by brute »

laurent123456 wrote: post #33
Grumbledour wrote: post #8

Since I can't test it right now: Does this use some kind of database to store the notes? The readme talks about syncing, including to the file system. Why are the notes not simply stored as files in the first place? Would this not be much easier than constant exporting/importing to various providers?

Hi, I'm the author of this app. The notes on each client are stored in an SQLite database for performance reason. If they were stored directly as text files it would be slow to query them, it would be very hard to make it work on mobile (and even slower), and you wouldn't be able to easily create relations between notes and tags, notes and notebooks, resource links, etc. It's when exporting them or syncing them that…

> If they were stored directly as text files it would be slow to query them, it would be very hard to make it work on mobile (and even slower), and you wouldn't be able to easily create relations between notes and tags, notes and notebooks, resource links, etc.

Zim uses plain text files and folders. You can have images, tags, link to other notes, links to the filesystem...

Maybe I am not using it with enough files for it to be a problem, but I cant say that it is slow.

Re: Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal

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Post by Grumbledour »

roryisok wrote: post #51
laurent123456 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's interesting, I've tried to use plain text files at the beginning too but it didn't quite work. Also if I'm not mistaken on mobile Dropbox sync is not built-in so you'll need to implement it on top of their API (including conflict handling) which is probably the most difficult part in any app like this. That's also why having a local SQLite is useful because you can more easily compare your local state to what…

You're right, when I build mobile I'll have to build my own sync to dropbox, but there are plenty of libraries for that. Hopefully one that already does conflict handling =( I do have a local database store, but the Windows Store app is written in JS so I'm using NeDB which is basically just a mongo style interface for a JSON file. At the moment I really only use it to track recently opened files. On other platforms…

On Android, I use Dropsync[1] to make certain Dropbox folders behave more like on desktop and synchronize in the background. Works great with my markdown note files and also ensures my notes are always available offline.

(1) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.dr...

Re: Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal

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Post by johnsonjo »

reacharavindh wrote: post #36

I'm currently using Apple Notes on my Mac and iPhone. It works just great! It synchronises perfectly I can drag and drop images to it, no problem. Cmd + C, Cmd + V, Cmd + B, Cmd + I all work as expected. I can even add to-do lists and cross out "Done" I think it even supports tables, But I don't use them. Export as PDF, html, airdrop, email whatever, works easily What doesn't work: If I ever get out of Apple ecosyste…

You can get a lot of the export features (pdf, html, ePub, LaTeX, docX) with markdown if you just use pandoc [1]. Pandoc’s description from their website is, “If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife... Pandoc is free software, released under the GPL.” It truly is an amazing program to me. I use it all the time for my school assignments. It’s a command line tool and for the most part you can write ‘pandoc -s -o ‘ and it will guess how to convert it based on extension. I do my markdown editing with visual studio code, because it has a previewer that also supports LaTeX math mode in the markdown (vs code does the LaTeX math mode through KaTeX.) Pandoc also supports latex math mode in markdown so I can export math related assignments to pdf and such quickly.

[1]: http://pandoc.org

Re: Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal

#69

Post by vodkaPong »

tomlong wrote: post #55

This is very close to ideal for me. I've been moving away from Google Keep (and google in general recently, using Fastmail, microg fork of LineageOS on Fairphone 2, orgzly, vim org-mode Nextcloud etc etc) and the one thing that I missed was easily been able to dump photos and images into notes. I've had a play with this briefly and I will be using it full time. As soon as it offers nextcloud sync it really ticks all…

How stable and usable is LineageOS on Fairphone 2? I also have one and am intrigued to try it.

Re: Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal

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Post by KenanSulayman »

juandazapata wrote: post #65
KenanSulayman wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have black Moleskine notebooks with me all the time, they are a miracle; I tried all kinds of notebooks and their paper does best with gel pens (even though they have moved their production to China iirc?) It seems to be less common these days, but when I write down an algorithm or visualize it on paper it's so much easier to grasp - I always wondered why I can work with "real paper" better than with ePaper (et al.…

Why a miracle?

They are light (at an A5 form factor), have a very good paper quality, and covers with textures that fit comfortably in the hand; they also fit comfortably in my pocket.

(there's also some with hardcover, but I find them too heavy)

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