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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

#91
I wish this app's creator had a Patreon so I could donate to it's development. Money is far more portable than development time especially since there is a sunk cost in starting up.

Please set one up and msg me and I'll gladly contribute. I'm a daily, heavy Evernote user and I would love some competition to this great app and the ability to have an open-source option.

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

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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…

Useful tip (that I didn't know until recently) is you can also access your notes via any modern browser at https://www.icloud.com/ I recently moved to a Windows machine as my day-to-day home machine and thought I'd have to abandon Apple Notes (which I use on my phone and my work Macbook) but the web interface is basically identical to the apps.

I wish Apple would work more on icloud.com as a fully featured extension of their ecosystem. But they seem to be removing small features that are really useful, and I don't get the impression it has any priority. It used to be a nice way to manage mobile photos. Mass deletion was quicker and easier than on the phone, for example.

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

#93
Interesting app. I'm currently using todo.txt [1] and am quite happy with it. It's not really a note taking app (although I could use it that way) but rather a todo app and it uses a pure text file and syncs with dropbox nicely. I use an Android app as well [2].

There's a bunch of plugins for it but I haven't used any of them yet.

[1]: http://todotxt.org/ [2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.mpcjanssen....

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

#94

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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)

FWIW, I like grid-paper, so I use "graph-ruled" composition books.

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

#95

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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)

I confirm this. They are very classy. I use one to write my best recipes (so old school :-)). However the little elastic is a little bit weak.

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

#96

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…

Hi, I wonder if it convenient to ask questions here, but I can not figure out how to sync with local filesystem, could you help?

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

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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?

They're stored in an sqlite file at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/NotesV7.storedata (version number might be different.)

The data stored all over the place in the DB.

For example, you can extract HTML body of a note with the following query: "select ZHTMLSTRING from ZNOTEBODY".

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

#98
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…

Google Keyboard has speech-to-text, that should work with any note-taking app.

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

#99

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…

Fastmail enables you to use their service to sync your Notes from OSX& iOS. i think with CalDAV.

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

#100
post #6

I've played with a bunch of note tools, but once you need collaborative and painless synchronisation across platforms, your options really shrink. (I ended up with Google Keep, but it's not ideal.) As soon as we get Keybase FS on Android, this kind of tool becomes extremely interesting.

I also use Keep and agree it's not ideal. Would be nice to easily export all the notes to file. Would be even nicer if could store and make changes to notes on local filesystem and have them sync to cloud, google drive style.

As a tip, Google Takeout lets you export the notes as HTML files. Not really useful for syncing or integration, but serves as backup, at least.
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