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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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Post by jjnoakes »

theshrike79 wrote: post #93
laurent123456 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In which way can it be exploited?

If I serve you a 2000 line unformatted bash script from an URL and tell you to pipe it to bash, will you do it? Should you do it? Do you have the mental fortitude to format it and go through it line by line looking for possible exploits? It's 100% trivial to have it run rm or shred on all files you have access to while simultaneously printing correct looking install progress messages.

If you trust the author of tool you are installing and the installer is by the same author, then why wouldn't you trust the installer too?

> It's 100% trivial to have it run rm or shred on all files you have access to while simultaneously printing correct looking install progress messages.

The same is true of the tool itself, too.

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

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Post by jeffvogelsang »

stanislavb wrote: post #95
wanderingmind wrote: post #38

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/

A huge fan of Logseq here. I can’t imagine my workflow without it anymore. However, I still can’t have it on mobile because of sync. iCloud is awful, Syncthing doesn’t support mobile.

Have look at Möbius Sync. It is a third party app that wraps and makes SyncThing available on iOS & iPadOS. https://www.mobiussync.com/

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

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Post by EGG_CREAM »

pseufaux wrote: post #48

I 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 sausag…

Agreed. For me, the simplicity and forward compatibility of syncthing and a markdown editor are too great to give up for Joplin.

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

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Post by 369548684892826 »

bornon5 wrote: post #104
rakoo wrote: post #94

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Do you _really_ need a web client ? I use markor ( https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.gsantner.markor/ ) on android and it does everything I need. It's all a bunch of files, synchronized with syncthing, so I can use it on my desktop with any editor (maybe https://thiefmd.com/ , maybe another one). No need for a server, I can use it while offline, it's lightweight to install and maintain.

I want to be able to access the same content from my laptop, phone, and tablet. I used Obsidian for a while with a convoluted setup (a Git repo with an iOS shortcut that fetched when the Obsidian app was launched), but it proved too slow and error-prone to continue using. I want the whole stack to be open source, which is why I’m not using Obsidian Sync or an iOS Syncthing client. So while I don’t technically need we…

How about using iCloud for sync?

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

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Post by mwexler »

bartvk wrote: post #32
q-base wrote: post #31

I 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.

Is SimpleNote something for you? It only supports plain text notes (with Markdown rendering), but I've got years of notes in there, and it works on every platform. It's also owned and supported by Wordpress.

I keep looking for replacements but wind up every time coming back to Simplenote. Well worth considering as a baseline to compare other offerings against.

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

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Post by acidburnNSA »

_l7dh wrote: post #89
dunco wrote: post #65

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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…

Just try it out before interpreting their vision (which I totally ignored up until now). It is simply a nice system based on your local markdown files, allowing to easily cross-link notes. It is opinionated but I like that. It follows the bullet journaling approach and has a rudimentary integrated todo system. I have personally tried many alternatives (obsidian among them) but nothing comes close to what logseq offer…

Same. I've tried a dozen different notes options and logseq is the one that has stuck the longest. After screen sharing it at work a little there are now 10 more people using it daily for notes and talking about how it's what they've always been looking for.

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

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Post by bachmeier »

laurent123456 wrote: post #42
q-base wrote: post #31

I 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…

Fastmail comes with WebDAV. I used it with Joplin, but it pushes a very large number of files to the server. I have a paid OneDrive account. Found out that sync didn't work with OneDrive (random files just won't sync). Maybe they've fixed it, but I was not impressed.

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

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Post by duckmysick »

jjnoakes wrote: post #111
theshrike79 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I serve you a 2000 line unformatted bash script from an URL and tell you to pipe it to bash, will you do it? Should you do it? Do you have the mental fortitude to format it and go through it line by line looking for possible exploits? It's 100% trivial to have it run rm or shred on all files you have access to while simultaneously printing correct looking install progress messages.

If you trust the author of tool you are installing and the installer is by the same author, then why wouldn't you trust the installer too? > It's 100% trivial to have it run rm or shred on all files you have access to while simultaneously printing correct looking install progress messages. The same is true of the tool itself, too.

Yes, hence the trend of moving to sandboxed apps with limited access to your files (and other capabilities).
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