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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 gmfawcett »

rubenbe wrote: post #7
dawnbreez wrote: post #2

Why is this better than Orgmode? Orgmode is human readable, opens in any text editor, handles everything from bullet points to tables, and Github even has a Markdown-like renderer for Orgmode files.

The obvious advantage is that all platforms share the same code. As such it's easier to add new features. While for org mode emacs, orgzly, etc are separate projects that have to be kept in sync

Org is really just a text format, like Markdown, and the core format hasn't changed in ages. So I don't think there's a sync problem here with respect to the applications themselves.

The more likely pain-point is that on one device you have extra tools/configuration set up (e.g., org-latex), but these tools aren't available elsewhere (such as in orgzly). But I assume that this is a given for orgzly users: they probably don't expect they can do everything that org-mode enables in Emacs (like producing PDFs via LaTeX). They just want to do basic edits, and don't want to lose data when the document round-trips between Emacs and orgzly. (I don't use orgzly, but I assume that safe round-tripping is a feature...)

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

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Post by gh02t »

brute wrote: post #66
laurent123456 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 fo…

I think Zim uses a two level approach, storing text files but also keeping an index database for doing full text search.

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

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Post by mcrider »

I like the idea of an app with integrated notes and todos, and love that its open source, but this is really lacking in the todo department. No drag-and-drop reordering and no deadlines/grouping by date makes it pretty useless for anything approaching a decent workflow.

I've tried pretty much everything and still haven't found anything with the features/ease-of-use/good design of Wunderlist (which is still lacking in features, and has a fast approaching EOL). Considering todo apps are the modern version of hello world I would think we'd have a lot of good options (or does that reasoning actually mean there are a lot of half-baked options?)

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

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Post by SJetKaran »

omaranto wrote: post #62
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.

I use tasker to sync orgzly every one hour.

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

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Post by Radim »

Any tips or recommendations for a "note-taking and to-do" mobile app that would allow dictation, speech to text?

My use-case is recording quick notes and TODOs, which often come at the weirdest of moments (no computer, no paper).

I feel there's a market for something super simple: a speech recognition fast enough and good enough that I can later read and understand what I said.

Everything I've tried so far was either too cumbersome (I need it to start recording fast, just like taking a snap picture) or its transcriptions too crappy (no idea what was said, even conceptually).

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

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Post by skierscott »

johnsonjo wrote: post #68
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 too…

Where does Apple Notes store it’s files? What format are they in?

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

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Post by jherdman »

Radim wrote: post #77

Any tips or recommendations for a "note-taking and to-do" mobile app that would allow dictation, speech to text? My use-case is recording quick notes and TODOs, which often come at the weirdest of moments (no computer, no paper). I feel there's a market for something super simple: a speech recognition fast enough and good enough that I can later read and understand what I said. Everything I've tried so far was either…

> "no computer, no paper"

Sounds like you really just ought to make a habit of keeping pen and paper near you, or your mobile phone. Either of these fit your use case nicely at (probably) no extra cost.

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