Since none of the top comments seem to directly discuss Joplin itself, let me just say that I’ve been using it for years, and it’s great.
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
#112I haven’t found something that does it all for me. I still use Evernote. Every time I get a real paper mail, an invoice or a receipt, I scan it with my phone and save to Evernote. For the PDF OCR search. Thats my only Evernote usecase. For notes I use Bear. Which is, IMO, the best UX for note taking on iOS. But. It doesn’t have a web GUI or a Linux app. So. I can’t really keep using it. I’ve tried them all. Joplin, S…
> One day I’ll have to go out to write something myself.
I resonate with that. I need to be able to add attachments to my notes - ideally with OCR capabilities. Evernote does that, but I've had a hard time finding something else for the Linux desktop.
It's 2019 (almost 2020) and a cross-platform note taking application that does notes + attachments + OCR it's still not available (I am not referring to "workarounds" or "tweaks", attachments as links, etc). If anyone knows one I would love to hear about it.
I am currently using a web app that I have built myself, it does notes and attachments but I am still working on implementing OCR via Tesseract (form images and PDF attachments).
@surfsvammel, if you decide to go that way and start building something, give me a shout - email in my profile.
Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities
#113After 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'm looking to move away from Notes because it has a serious bug (possibly only when using Exchange, I'm not sure) where notes longer than about 3 pages get truncated without warning. I found this out the hard way when my "big list of ideas to work on later" note turned out to be missing about a year's worth of data.
It's had this bug for several years across a number of versions. I now have a huge buffer of sacrificial text at the bottom of any important note, which I then split if part of that buffer goes missing.
Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities
#114Disclosure: 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…
Would be useful to also list disadvantages of notable. The most obvious is no app for android, which made it instantly usable for me.
Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities
#115Another alternative is Trilium Notes which ticks the boxes from the title (sync, note, todo) but goes in a bit different direction (unlimited hierarchy, WYSIWYG, scriptability) - https://github.com/zadam/trilium
Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like a strong candidate to replace Google Keep when they suddenly decide to shut it down.
And what happens when dynalist shuts down? That’s why I prefer self-hosted or plain old Apple Notes :-)
Of even SimpleNote, which everybody did buried when Automattic buy it, but still in development and working.
Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities
#117I 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.
I was a Standard Notes user, including a premium plan, but recently switched to Joplin and I've been very happy with it. I like Standard Notes' no-nonsense business model, with the downside that the free version is heavily feature-crippled (not even a Markdown editor, just plain text). The Standard Notes server is self-hostable, but it requires a dedicated backend server [0] which was more hassle than I wanted to dea…
The reason to use Standard Notes, IMO, is the zero-knowledge encryption. I’ll check out Joplin and the others I’m learning about in this thread but I’m happy with Standard Notes at the moment though.
Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities
#118When 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/
Looks amazing. I've been using some hacky vscode setup to do GTD but this seems like exactly what i want. Too bad it's not open source, i would still pay their instance but i would feel better knowing i have an escape hatch if they close.
Will try it anyway.
Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities
#119I tried a few note taking apps but in the end came to the realization that regular editors are actually better at the job.
My reasoning:
* _Sync_ should not be solved by the note app (applications that implement sync themselves are usually buggy, I prefer to outsource sync to nextcloud / dropbox / ...)
* I want the same _editing capabilities_ as usual (block edit etc., note apps are usually less power full editors)
* A _tree organization_ is important to me, which is trivially solved using editors and the file system
* There are _Markdown_ packages for pretty much every editor.
Note taking apps tend to ship these features but are not as mature as editors are.
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#120Why are new applications still adding dot folders/files to the home directory and not following freedesktop standards?