How does this compare with NoteNook? (Open-source, local-first)
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Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
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Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#42I have tried to switch to Joplin from Evernote twice. But each time I have ended up being frustrated with the synchronisation. It is just too slow in my opinion. Perhaps I have too many notes, but I will be looking for another alternative to Evernote that can work on my phone and Ubuntu.
Which backend did you use for sync?
You usually get better sync performance by either self-hosting or using Joplin Cloud. I don't know of any good WebDAV provider, let alone a free one, and even the paid ones have limitations that make them unusable for sync.
OneDrive and Dropbox have a free tier and work with Joplin, but they throttle the connection. But I guess it depends on how many notes you have and how you use Joplin - a lot of people use OneDrive or Dropbox and it works good enough for them.
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#43For those that want to crosslink anything and everything I suggest Logseq[1]. Its journal and graph view are fantastic. And it has many useful plugins. I use it along with git-sync [2] and syncthing [3] now I can sync the notes across my work, personal desktops and my mobile. [1] http://logseq.com/ [2] https://github.com/simonthum/git-sync [3] https://syncthing.net/
I jumped from Joplin to Logseq too. Before it was Boostnote. Probably the reason was both Boostnote and Joplin seems to have stopped developing the application and shifted focus to monetization. Also I personally prefer the (much) more technical way that Logseq work. It is not a markdown editor, but a knowledge base that stores its data as plaintext files in a markdown-like format. One question: do you have pointers…
I have a private git repo in Github which is the folder that Logseq uses. I have a cron job to runs script for git-sync on all machines on reboot. I also have syncthing running on my personal desktop that shares this git repo with my android phone. It runs smooth as long as you don't do simultaneous edits from multiple machines.This will break the git-sync and you will have to do merge conflicts of that happens.
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#44I am pretty happy with Obsidian.
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#45For those that want to crosslink anything and everything I suggest Logseq[1]. Its journal and graph view are fantastic. And it has many useful plugins. I use it along with git-sync [2] and syncthing [3] now I can sync the notes across my work, personal desktops and my mobile. [1] http://logseq.com/ [2] https://github.com/simonthum/git-sync [3] https://syncthing.net/
I jumped from Joplin to Logseq too. Before it was Boostnote. Probably the reason was both Boostnote and Joplin seems to have stopped developing the application and shifted focus to monetization. Also I personally prefer the (much) more technical way that Logseq work. It is not a markdown editor, but a knowledge base that stores its data as plaintext files in a markdown-like format. One question: do you have pointers…
I don't know about Boostnote but Joplin is still actively developed. Just check the changelogs, and all that is open source:
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#46I switched from unstructured Trello / OneNote / Notepad notes to Joplin 4 years ago.
I sync it through cloud between mobile, desktop and laptop.
It is simply awesome. One of the most important tools I use everyday.
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#47I am pretty happy with Obsidian.
Obisidian with icloud Drive sync is pretty sweet.
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#48I really want to like Joplin, and I've tried to switch a number of times. But the mobile experience just isn't there for me. The iOS app is simple and reliable, which is good, but it's missing some of the touches that make mobile computing feel like it's made for mobile.
Specifically, things like swipes for navigation and for selecting or deleting notes. Also, many of the buttons are just too damn small for my sausage fingers. It's dumb, I know. Still, I find myself attempting to swipe to open the side bar then realizing my mistake after the second try and fumbling to reach the too small hamburger in the very top left of the screen.
Notes are something I reference at my desktop but generally write while on the go, so having a easy to use mobile app is a requirement for me. It's a shame though cause the desktop experience is so good.
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#49I have tried to switch to Joplin from Evernote twice. But each time I have ended up being frustrated with the synchronisation. It is just too slow in my opinion. Perhaps I have too many notes, but I will be looking for another alternative to Evernote that can work on my phone and Ubuntu.
I got a large performance bump by increasing the number of allowed open connections from the default 5 to 20 in all clients. I’m syncing to a self hosted Nextcloud via WebDAV.
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#50I use and like Joplin a lot but the mobile app is pretty poor. I find it a frustrating experience
Contrary to popular belief, the mobile app is not forgotten - I count about 40 releases in total for the past 12 months.
We probably spend as much time working on it than on the desktop one, but unfortunately it is much harder to develop for mobile, especially when you have to make sure it works on the many different Android devices and iOS versions, plus the extra work to comply with the ever changing requirements from the Google and Apple stores. Many of these changes are not visible to the user, but without this boring never ending maintenance work the app simply wouldn't exist.
We do plan to update the UI/UX of the mobile app though, as we're aware it could be made more intuitive. I'm very keen on improving this and hopefully it will happen this year.