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Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Post by fabiospampinato »

bhl wrote: post #2

If you search 'Markdown' on HackerNews, it'd seem like the 'market' for markdown editors is fragmented: there isn't a single dominant editor yet. I think every week there's a new editor posted (Joplin is an exception given that it's been here for a while). Why is that the case?

The reason is that existing solutions are inadequate/not-powerful-enough, so the moment a developer is limited by what the app has to offer there's a chance a new note-taking app gets developed to solve that specific need.

Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Post by fabiospampinato »

awill wrote: post #50
fabiospampinato wrote: post #44

Disclosure: I work at a competitor note-taking app called Notable [0], so I'm somewhat biased. I've made a comparison table [1] comparing Joplin and other popular note-taking apps, you may find it useful. Joplin could have been my go-to note-taking app, but IMO they made a few bad design decisions and there are few things I really don't like about it, maybe listing some of them from my point of view could be useful e…

I see notable used to be open source, but now isn't. Why?

There's been some discussion about this here [0], the TL;DR is that as developing it has become my full-time job, and I'm trying to make it sustainable/profitable, releasing everything as open-source comes with some risks that may go against that objective.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Notable/comments/dcqan6/notable_is_...

Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Post by 384028345 »

One great aspect is that joplin supports iOS 8+. My Ex needed to write a big dissertation that she just couldn't make progress on (unsurprisingly). Her work laptop is too bulky to carry around every day unfortunately.

So at some point I figured she could use my old ipad mini 1 with a size-fitted logitech "ultrathin keyboard" (that magnetically holds onto the ipad, making it one piece for storage) that I impulse bought and never used. So hardware was there, but looking for a markdown editor that supported sync and that old device + her windows laptop was not fruitful. Except well, short story: joplin is awesome for that.

She could use the ipad to write a few minutes here and there during transit and was able to complete it. The markdown file is then converted to latex/pdf using pandoc + pandoc-citeproc (for citations using a bibtex-file).

Support for antiquated iOS versions is rare (making the ipad mini 1 useless in many cases although it still appears to be a capable device) even though many apps don't seem to have a need for higher versions. I suspect that most apps use frameworks that have a version cutoff to reduce complexity if that even makes sense.

Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Post by maxai »

threatofrain wrote: post #22

What do people who also want Latex use? So far I haven’t found anything better than VSC.

Joplin supports Latex-like equations. And Typora and Mark Text have inline Latex support, but they're only on desktop. So there's not really any mobile & desktop solution that has Latex and Markdown as a priority feature.

Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Post by tanin »

nico_h wrote: post #8

I’m looking for a multi-platform (linux-mac-ios) markdown editor that saves at regular interval and keeps history and sync via git. Is there anything like that? How hard would it be to extend joplin to write a service driver to sync via Git(-hub / -lab / your own server)?

I'm building a golang app that syncs notes through git automatically.

Basically, you have your notes in a git repo, and this app keeps committing the changes to your remote repo.

If you feel adventurous, you can try it here: https://github.com/tanin47/git-notes (still in early alpha)

Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Post by ddsea »

ddsea wrote: post #36

I felt that Evernote was becoming increasingly constraining and slow/flaky, so after trying a few alternatives (text files/dirs, SimpleNote, Apple Notes, BoostNotes, Zim, etc), I've made a leap of faith to Joplin. My requirements: multi-platform, multi-device, auto-sync (more than 2 devices in free ver.), tags, webclip-ability, preferably markdown format with code rendering. Text diagramming such as PlantUML is a big…

More on color schemes: in addition to Joplin including a few built-in themes, the appearance of rendered pages can be adjusted via CSS. Playing with it felt more liberating for me than I care to admit.
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