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My major problem with Joplin is the lack of a native client for Apple Silicon, otherwise it's great. I know you can run it with Rosetta but it's performance and load time is terrible.
I really like Obsidian for how performant it feels for handling really long md files with outline.
But the best capturing experience is Logseq. I just record everything I do in the journal (daily) page and just tag them (tag can have hierarchy and spaces too) . I don't have to think about directory structure or which file the info should go into. Logseq sucks for handling long form md files tho, so I keep Obsidian for that.
Joplin I tried to use it until it started having sync conflicts, and the sync corruption error cannot be dismissed. Google solutions suggests exporting JEX and delete everything and re-import. I give up after that.
Apple Notes is really nice too but lack coding highlight.
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> Just give me an app that can handle nicely markdown files You know what does that well? The filesystem. I've tested pretty much all note-taking software out there. What ended up working for me is a bunch of markdown files inside folders, synced using Github. I have search, formatting and preview thanks to VSCode, and I can access my notes on any machine that syncs with Github.
If you want to leave all your notes unencrypted on github, then sure that’s an option.
Big no-no to Joplin for me is that it is using some custom data format (sqlite I think). Why bother? Just give me an app that can handle nicely markdown files, syncing I can do myself e.g. (Synology, rsync) or use some file syncing service (Dropbox, OneDrive, whatever). Zettlr does the trick for me without interfering with what I write.
Now, you can certainly bite the bullet and full-ass the implementation like Dokuwiki did, but that is really quite a lot of work and effort against simply `import sqlite` and writing a couple of tutorial-level queries. And it turns out that exporting all of your documents to plaintext, if you should so choose, is a one-line command away.
Joplin is great at being a place to put a lot of ... simple rich text documents in a random manner, and have access to them. Wordpad with sync, and it does its job.
I am pretty happy with Obsidian.
Same here. I only use note taking apps on my Mac, so syncing isn’t something I am interested in. For me the interface of Obsidian is really top notch. Typing headers and code block quotes doesn’t feel like it gets in your way. My only complaint is that embedded images are saved at the root level by default. Would be nice if I could hide those or move them to an /Images folder,
I'm not sure if I understand your complaint, which is something that can easily be changed.
Open Settings (cmd-,) > Files & Links, and look for Attachment folder path and change to whatever path you like.