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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 jdnenej »

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…

I use Zim for work use. I find I don't actually need a mobile app since I don't really need to take anything more than temporary notes on my phone.

The nice thing is it uses 17mb ram so I can leave it running all the time which is a helpful thing since all the other electron apps keep my laptop at 18gb memory usage

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

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Post by godelmachine »

Relevant but not directly related -

I use iOS.

I have been looking for a note taking app that will directly save my notes to my Google Drive as soon as I take it.

For past 4 years I have been using the default Apple Notes. Back then, I noticed I can configure Notes to be synced with my Google account, and a new label called Notes is created in Gmail. But what I missed is that a separate Google account folder is created Notes and I need to save all my notes there in order for it to be uploaded to my Gmail in real time, and this I noticed only last week. So, for the past 4 years, I have been saving all my notes on my iPhone, in the default folder. And now there’s no other way except to manually upload all notes , one by one, which I have collected over the past 4 years, which goes in thousands, to Gmail.

Last week I downloaded Google Keep. There’s one big difference I noted between Apple Notes and Google Keep. In Apple Notes, the Notes which you have recently created / edited / modified / updated, automatically comes to the top, whereas that’s not the case with Google Keep. I love this feature of Apple Notes so much that I decided to stick to Apple Notes despite the disappointment I faced earlier of missing out on the separate Google folder in Apple Notes

Does anyone know of a way to upload all of my Apple Notes, which I have accumulated over the past 4 years, to Gmail directly in one go? Any workflows available to make this happen?

Any suggestion from anyone would be reciprocated with disproportionate gratitude _/\_

Memento Mori

PS - I am looking for a free software.

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

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Post by wdr1 »

fandaa wrote: post #20

I would recommend https://standardnotes.org/ after trying all other (OneNote, Boostnote, QOwnNotes, etc.) note taking SWs. Encrypted linked storage (S3, Dropbox, ...) for files, encrypted notes, multiplatform, multiple editors (code, 2FA, markdown, spreadsheets, your own!, ...) & can be self hosted. Easy (also encrypted) backups. I only miss the diagrams tool (like draw.io) or handwriting (touch/pen) support.

Does it support Google Drive?

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

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Post by smartbit »

omarhaneef wrote: post #7
smartbit wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I gave Joplin a try and syncing with Dropbox wasn’t flawless. Still searching for a markdown editor that runs on both iOS & Linux and does auto save & auto sync.

Isn’t any text editor compatible with Dropbox? I mean Dropbox does the syncing and your editor just saves the file there, right? You don’t even need the same editor. You can use one on Linux, one on iOS and another on Windows.

I miss worded: Looking for a note taking app with markdown to replace Apple notes. Autosync & auto save should work with self hosted service.

In the discussion above saw many good suggestions, none that fitted the requirements.

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

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Post by schuke »

nrp wrote: post #40
schuke wrote: post #10

After years of searching I’ve pretty much settled on one note-taking app: Apple Notes. Quite unexpected to me as well because I started off just to sort of “cache” random notes in it before sorting them out in OneNote. Then I found myself almost stopped using OneNote. It’s just ubiquitous enough when you have a few extra PC devices, (unlike say, Bear) and versatile enough so it’s not limited to texts like Notational…

Apple Notes is wonderful until you decide to replace your MacBook with anything else and attempt to get by with the painfully slow iCloud web version of Notes. The same goes for Apple Reminders.

That's true. But here in China Android is much much more aggressively spied and surveilled by both manufacturers and government I'm more than happy to stay with Apple.

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

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Post by _28jh »

godelmachine wrote: post #72

Relevant but not directly related - I use iOS. I have been looking for a note taking app that will directly save my notes to my Google Drive as soon as I take it. For past 4 years I have been using the default Apple Notes. Back then, I noticed I can configure Notes to be synced with my Google account, and a new label called Notes is created in Gmail. But what I missed is that a separate Google account folder is creat…

A really weird way to end a comment.

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

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Post by erikschoster »

schuke wrote: post #10

After years of searching I’ve pretty much settled on one note-taking app: Apple Notes. Quite unexpected to me as well because I started off just to sort of “cache” random notes in it before sorting them out in OneNote. Then I found myself almost stopped using OneNote. It’s just ubiquitous enough when you have a few extra PC devices, (unlike say, Bear) and versatile enough so it’s not limited to texts like Notational…

I make a folder called "notes" on any given machine and make a new text document inside of it when I have a note I want to make. I know this isn't clever and "it doesn't scale!!!" but I have multiple computers and it's easy to merge the notes into a single backup, and I always know where to go for the notes I take.

If I need to share a note, I use a github gist but it's also just a linear text storage so I'll prolly replace it with something else at some point...

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

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Post by sorenjan »

When it comes to todo lists I really prefer nested checkboxes, like Dynalist[0] has. That enables me to make a list of projects, where each project has their own todo items, and maybe they have sub items, and so on. I like being able to divide stuff into smaller and smaller chunks, and then checking them off as I go.

[0] https://dynalist.io/

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

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Post by freewizard »

gumby wrote: post #37
schuke wrote: post #10

After years of searching I’ve pretty much settled on one note-taking app: Apple Notes. Quite unexpected to me as well because I started off just to sort of “cache” random notes in it before sorting them out in OneNote. Then I found myself almost stopped using OneNote. It’s just ubiquitous enough when you have a few extra PC devices, (unlike say, Bear) and versatile enough so it’s not limited to texts like Notational…

The only thing that makes me keep looking for an alternative to Apple Notes is search . 1. You can't restrict search to just one folder. 2. You can't use tags (would be better than folders) and search by them. I have a partial work around (I just type #tag and search for that) but it does't work that well -- the search correctly filters for "#foo" but shows "foo" highlighted in the sidebar...and doesn't scroll to the…

Search by folder should be possible on Mac w some scripting, which means you can add it to Alfred or Quicksilver too.

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

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Post by brazzledazzle »

revscat wrote: post #63
gumby wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only thing that makes me keep looking for an alternative to Apple Notes is search . 1. You can't restrict search to just one folder. 2. You can't use tags (would be better than folders) and search by them. I have a partial work around (I just type #tag and search for that) but it does't work that well -- the search correctly filters for "#foo" but shows "foo" highlighted in the sidebar...and doesn't scroll to the…

Quiver.

I have nothing but good things to say about Quiver except on the rare occasion and even then I would describe it as performing ok in that regard. It just gets it done and it’s full of features but not too fancy.

Probably the only thing that’s so-so is search but worst case I have to check a couple of notes to find the right one.

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