People seem to be talking about this/these mainly for note taking, but I'm really only looking for the web clipping function. Evernote has been fine for my vast collection of chashu recipes, audio equipment schematics and philosophy enchiridia. I sure wouldn't want to lose that stuff. Joplin then? Obsidian? Something else? /rhetorical - I will keep reading the comments.
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
#122Shameless 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?
Thanks! You're right. It's in our bucket list.
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#123The only problem to me is that the "official" Joplin Server is proprietary: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/packages/server...
I think it is a reasonable decision https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/crowdfunding-joplin-server...
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#124People seem to be talking about this/these mainly for note taking, but I'm really only looking for the web clipping function. Evernote has been fine for my vast collection of chashu recipes, audio equipment schematics and philosophy enchiridia. I sure wouldn't want to lose that stuff. Joplin then? Obsidian? Something else? /rhetorical - I will keep reading the comments.
Joplin does have a Web Clipper
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#125The ideal “knowledge base” app I’ve been searching for is as follows: - Self-hosted - Attractive web client that loads very quickly and works well on mobile - Can point it at a nested directory of text/markdown and image/pdf files (no sql database) - Text files are editable in place (no “edit” button, etc.) - Markdown displays in a plain-text view (no hidden formatting characters, no “rich text” editor) Every app I’v…
Obsidian has everything but "Attractive web client", but it does have a native client. The "database" is just a bunch of directories you can sync with any tool you want.
Doesn't seem to have self-hosted syncing. Or am I missing something?
And even if it's in there, $8/month for syncing seems to defeat the point of "self-hosted".
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Does syncthing not support iphone? Because on android it works flawlessly.
my understanding is that syncthing doesn't work properly on iOS, because Apple doesn't allow background processes. So you have to manually sync all the time.
I'd imagine you'd get into some merge conflicts if you forget to manually sync and start editing notes.
That's why ios apps generally either use their own sync, or use iCloud. As someone that has a mix of devices (iOS, Linux desktop, macbook for work), this leave me with very few cross-platform options.
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#127How does it compare to obsidian?
Having started with Joplin, the three things that took me away were the (at the time) lacking mobile support, periodic syncing collisions, and probably most importantly, their non-standard file format. There was a tool that could extract files into standard markdown format, then repack them, but the overhead was tiring, and meant a few key environments lacked access, namely when I was accessing a server from the rack…
> Though I'm still eyeing open source options with Logseq, just waiting on their mobile app to pick up and properly support plugins. I'll be more than happy to port everything as soon as it supports that.
If you haven't already, I'd recommend voting on https://discuss.logseq.com/t/plugin-support-for-ios-android-... if you're waiting for mobile plugin support
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#128No discussion of note taking apps is complete without Zim Desktop Wiki [1], so let me be the one who sings its praise! It's less web or mobile oriented than Joplin but gives me everything I need. Plain text files, syncing, lots of plugins. And task management, oh boy. Task management is second to none, including orgmode. I'm a faithful user for years now and I am still happy I found it.
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#129I 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.
The funny thing about Joplin sync being too slow... years ago, I complained to the author that his markdown files weren't true markdown, and his rebuttal was that it was necessary to pollute those to get sync to perform well on Nextcloud/webdav. I pointed out how he might have just written a small NC plugin to achieve the same effect, at which point the thread was closed and I was no longer welcome to comment.
Maybe that's changed since though.
Re: Joplin – An open-source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation
#130Longtime joplin user here - been using s3 sync storage since it was available. As long as it is open and free, that will be my note app of choice. Yeah the mobile app definitely needs work, and there's always room for improvement overall. But it is free as in "free beer", as well as "free speech". Both are hard requirements for me, at least for my notes (and data, in general).
I have years of notes in joplin, spread across dozens of notebooks and several profiles. I'm impressed.
There are a zillion competitors out there, some with extremely beautiful interfaces - but it MUST be open for me to even look at it.