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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

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For 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/

Do you have any idea on how can I import Joplin md's into Logseq?

Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation

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I tried many note-taking apps and finally settled on Notable[0]. It's simple and you can point it to a folder with markdown files and attachments. Plus, you can just sync the folder using any syncing service, and use Noteless[1] on Android. The tagging support is superb, you can cross-link notes, render math using katex, and export to pdf. Because of the simple folder structure, you can also use vim+fzf to search/nav…

Notable looks cool. The mobile apps are not ready, though. OK, let's try it.

Noteless on Android works well with Notable

Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation

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For 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 looked at logseq as an alternative to joplin but there were too many little flags that suggested to me that privacy and being free might not be forever. I don't have a problem with paying for software, but I don't like getting embedded in it when I don't know what the cost will be. Privacy wise, statements like "The aim of Logseq is to establish a better environment for both learning and collaboration, enabling us…

> better separation of work/private notes (like different storage locations)

FYI, as of last year, Joplin supports profiles on both Desktop and Android that are exactly that. Though you do have to restart the app to toggle between the two.

Release notes: https://joplinapp.org/news/20220606-release-2-8/

Open issue for multiple instances ala Firefox: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/591

Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation

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Thanks for the feedback. We plan to update the mobile app so it's good to know what needs to be improved.

just jumping on this to say I'm a Joplin user and I love it, thank you for building an awesome app. I currently also use notion because of Joplin's lack of note sharing on mobile; if good note sharing came to the Joplin mobile app I wouldn't need anything else. The only other feature I'd want that I think is missing from Joplin is the ability to define different storage locations / encryption keys per notebook to all…

Glad you like the app and thanks for the kind words! For separation between work and personal notes, we know support multiple profiles, as described here, available on both mobile and desktop: https://joplinapp.org/news/20220606-release-2-8/#multiple-pr...

By note sharing on mobile, what do you mean? I believe you can share some text from any app to Joplin. And there's also a way to share from Joplin to any other app (from the context menu). Or is it not currently working?

Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation

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"Custom" would be the way Apple Notes or Evernote stores their data in opaque binary blobs. SQLite is standard and you can open it with plenty of third-party tools, but I see your point about plain text files being more convenient for certain tasks.

> SQLite is standard and you can open it with plenty of third-party tools Tends not to play well with things like Dropbox or Syncthing though. Although I guess you can use litestream or something for the replication instead.

I sync Joplin via Dropbox across phone and 2 laptops. In theory a prob? But in practice rare to never bc im only one user on one device at a time. And im making small changes at a time. There was 1 minor conflict once and Joplin saw it and i quickly resolved it.

Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation

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Shameless plug for my native (Qt C++ based) open-source, cross-platform note-taking app[1]. It's fast, beautiful, and just works. The next version will add an option to turn your Markdown tasks into a beautiful Kanban view[2] via QML. This feature will be paid but anyone will be able to compile the source with a simple CMake flag to get the PRO version for free. Currently, it uses a DB but we aim to port it to suppor…

Looks cool. Will try it. I assume it doesn't support images at the moment?

Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation

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Some pros of Joplin that go unnoticed vs other note taking apps:

1- Available on F-Droid (unofficially) 2- Available as a Flatpak (unofficially) 3- Supports syncing to file system (thus syncing via syncthing) 4- Supports encrypting the exported files 5- Open source 6- Can handle a lot of notes (I have around 5k, but some of those are large notes) 7- Dark Mode

These, among many other features make it my note editor of choice for the past 5 years.

Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation

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These are the types of applications that I really love. It stores the data in a cloud service that already has enough free capacity for say a notes app. It's like how we can store pass(1) passwords on a git repository (Sync it with Github) and use that as the destination of Android Password Store[1], and you have a easy password manager that syncs across devices.

[1] https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S...

Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation

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My phone recently died and had to move to a new device and resynchronize my Joplin "vault". I have tens of thousands of notes and the Android app just cannot complete the first sync. I left it running all night (sync gets slower and slower as it progresses) with "stay awake" enabled on Android (because Joplin stops synching as soon as the screen locks or the app is not in focus) and even after restarting multiple times, sync never completes (it claims it finished, but most recent notes are still nowhere to be found).

This is using the WebDAV backend as that's the only option I have (so long as there's no Google Drive backend).

I am looking for alternatives (with a web clipper extension and native apps on windows/linux/mac/android).

Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation

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For 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 looked at logseq as an alternative to joplin but there were too many little flags that suggested to me that privacy and being free might not be forever. I don't have a problem with paying for software, but I don't like getting embedded in it when I don't know what the cost will be. Privacy wise, statements like "The aim of Logseq is to establish a better environment for both learning and collaboration, enabling us…

Thank you for the info. Since, I use my own local data and don't store anything on their cloud, I didn't read their cloud storage plan. I hope how they will not be able to train LLMs or connect with other data sources if the data is not stored on their cloud. One lesson I learned os that if you use any cloud storage, they can always update the ToS and EULA at anytime to break through privacy
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