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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 paultopia »

Numberwang wrote: post #139
johnsonjo wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What bugs? I've been using pandoc for years (admittedly mostly for markdown --> pdf/html/docx, sometimes with bibtex and interesting latex tweaks) and never run into a bug.

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

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Post by kitsunesoba »

fny wrote: post #97
skierscott wrote: post #78

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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".

Yep. They probably use Core Data (which is a layer on top of SQLite) internally instead of straight SQLite, but either way it ends up on disk as an SQLite file. A lot of standard Apple apps do this.

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

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Post by jessaustin »

Numberwang wrote: post #139
johnsonjo wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

...unusable for anything complicated.

I thought we were talking about taking notes and then displaying them? How could that be complicated?

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

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Post by reacharavindh »

reaperducer wrote: post #126
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…

> Apple has my data, and I need to trust them. You don't need to let Apple have your data to use Notes. Notes syncs through a standard IMAP account. If you have your own domain, you can just create a notes@example.com e-mail account and Apple Notes will happily sync all of its data through that. That's what I do.

Huh, that's a cool tip. I'll try it out.

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

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Post by fowkswe »

gameofthrowaway wrote: post #90

Side question: why did you name the application Joplin? (My hometown is Joplin, MO and I'm curious if you're also from or living there.) My other two guesses for its etymology are Janis Joplin and Scott Joplin.

Me too! WHOAREYOU :)

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

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Post by auxbuss »

Numberwang wrote: post #139
johnsonjo wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Disproof: The recent release of Scrivener use Pandoc for their 847-page manual[0]. It's a complicated something.

[0] https://www.literatureandlatte.com/learn-and-support/user-gu...

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

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Post by nathancahill »

dingdingdang wrote: post #84

OK, once: "Coming features All: End to end encryption" is implemented then I'm up for giving this a try. The plain text format and markdown support is good features.

Check out Standard Notes: standardnotes.org

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

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Post by kohanz »

jubes wrote: post #133
MikusR wrote: post #123

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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 poten…

But you are given the option. I bet the app also stores timestamps along with the posts - should that be off by default as well because some are uncomfortable with divulging when they created their note?

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

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Post by bovermyer »

elnurmen wrote: post #146

Please change the name))) "Jopa" means ass in Russian... And, well...Joplin sounds like a resident of "Ass"-town

Janis Joplin was an icon of American music culture. I wouldn't be surprised if this program was named after her.

Not to be insensitive to other cultures, but "this name sounds vaguely like this vulgar thing in another language" is not a strong reason to rename a project of this kind.

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