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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 charliedevolve »

blunte wrote: post #44

This looks great. I hope you might prioritize adding a web clipper. For me, the Evernote Web Clipper plugin/extension is the killer app. The rest of Evernote isn't great, but their web clipper is incredibly useful to me.

The web clipper is the killer app for me as well. I've been looking for a replacement for a long time and thus far have found nothing comparable that is open, self-hostable, cross-platform & syncable, and saves web media or pdf natively. I will also kick in to a Patreon if a web clipper is promised.

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

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Post by baldfat »

dhimes wrote: post #94
KenanSulayman wrote: post #70

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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.

Moleskin also make grid-paper and non-ruled notebooks.

Personally I have seen the light and find that Moleskin paper is not the best. I switched to using Japanese paper. I'm left handed and Japan needs fast drying pens and paper.

Here is a quick link to some of the brands I like with graph paper. https://www.jetpens.com/Pocket-Notebooks/ct/1668?&f=9e1b4fde...

I just got a few of these and I am really happy with the quality of these. https://www.jetpens.com/blog/leuchtturm1917-notebook-guide/p...

Also the Whitelines app with this notebook is really a great idea. You basically take a picture and the grey background is removed and you have just your writing or drawing.

https://www.jetpens.com/Leuchtturm1917-Whitelines/ct/4346

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

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Post by jubes »

MikusR wrote: post #123
jubes wrote: post #114

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Thanks for response. I assumed it was a bug and i'm sure there are quite a few start outs which find themselves on here via the power of copy pasta. That said it was the idea of having geolocation on by default which irked me. Is there a reason for this?

Is there a reason it shouldn't be? When i take notes i would like to capture as much metadata as possible. So when i reference them later i get full picture.

Yes. I like transparency and I would like to live in a world where the products I consume don't assume and give me the choice of what data is sent on the back of my actions. In this case because the option was binary it was assumed I wanted geo-location data being sent. Let's consider the scenario where the data store containing these notes and their associated metadata was breached and owned. You then have the potential for learning additional facts about people which wasn't their intended choice. If you chose to allow for certain data to be sent then ultimately the onus is on the you. Because you want as much metadata attached to notes doesn't mean everyone does and therefore we should be given the option.

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

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Post by gt_ »

blunte wrote: post #44

This looks great. I hope you might prioritize adding a web clipper. For me, the Evernote Web Clipper plugin/extension is the killer app. The rest of Evernote isn't great, but their web clipper is incredibly useful to me.

Yes, Evernote is pretty clunky but I’ve got a good 8 years of junk in in and that web clipper is a beast.

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

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Post by laurent123456 »

exitplanetary wrote: post #96
laurent123456 wrote: post #33

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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?

Hi, from the CLI app, you would need to set the sync target to the file system with:

    :config sync.target 2
Then you can specify the directory where the files should go with:

    :config sync.2.path /path/to/synced/dir/
Currently there's no config screen to do this in the desktop app, but it's possible to enable by changing the settings directly in the SQLite database (in the "settings" table).

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

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Post by EGreg »

Question for the people here ... are there any good SOCIAL apps like this?

I mean, for example, being able to assign tasks to others (like in Redmine / JIRA) and be notified of progress/completion.

Or collaboration on notes and permissions etc. Straight from your phone instead of some google doc.

And maybe turning those notes into tasks later.

What would you use?

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

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Post by Numberwang »

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…

Pandoc is crap software. All the bugs makes it unusable for anything complicated.

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

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Post by stormthebeach »

nucleartacos wrote: post #134

If you're working in a terminal, all you need to take notes is vi or emacs. No need to complicate things.

How do you organize your notes? I find that after a while I end up with way too many .md files with long names to easily comb through and end up spending way too much time searching for old notes.
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