Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

github.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

181–190 of 220 posts

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

#181

Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

theshrike79 wrote: post #157
NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

Like I said, the "database" is just a directory of files. You can use anything you want to keep it synced. I've used OneDrive, Dropbox and iCloud to sync mine.

I'd much prefer "syncing" to be something I set up once, and then forget about it.

If it is "anything I want to do to keep it synced", then I'll be half-assing it forever, losing notes and so forth. Already doing that, and the 500 pages of notes from 3 years ago on Google drive, to the "attach it in Gmail to a draft so I can look it over at home", hell even a few somewhere on iCloud. For some things others might be interested in, I've even got a few github gists.

This, for me, is a problem that is central to notes software. It might be the one problem that makes or breaks them. At least with the pricey subscription garbage apps, they know enough to know that I don't want to have to think about syncing.

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

#182

Post by laurent123456 »

sbkg0002 wrote: post #174

I like Joplin, but the fact that they refused to create an arm64 Darwin build, made me look for alternatives.

Not sure why "refused". We want to support it but it's not trivial and it doesn't help that we don't have the hardware to test this. It will be done eventually

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

#183

Post by Barrin92 »

Icathian wrote: post #88

Joplin is a gem of open source, and I use it daily on all of my machines. I'm so grateful to have a good FOSS notes app that syncs cross platform. I've been a patron for years and recommended it to lots of people. If anyone has questions about how I use it or my workflow I'm happy to shill this app more, lol. I know Obsidian is the cool kid right now but I just absolutely can't imagine using a closed source app for s…

> can't imagine using a closed source app for something as personal and important as my notes.

given that it's Markdown and local whatever you open it with at the end of the day doesn't matter much. That's the benefit of relying on a lightweight markup language, you're not locked in.

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

#184

Post by wouldbecouldbe »

I'm different from a lot of people it sounds like here. I mainly use one big ass note and I want my note app to start as fast as possible to get the idea I have on paper asap so I can forget about it.

Nothing is able to beat the Apple notes experience, even if my main phone is an Android. I still prefer it.

The main thing is, Apple is instant, you open it and type. Joplin takes 3-10 seconds on my phone and doesn't remember what note I was on if not on standby mode.

Also syncing. Often goes wrong. I like one big notes for my main planning & things to remember. Most apps manage multiple fine, but one big one often goes wrong. Had issues trying Google keep and evernote. Havent tried it with joplin yet, will give it a go.

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

#185

Post by dantheta »

Propelloni wrote: post #128

No 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. [1] https://zim-wiki.org/

Also an extremely happy Zim user for desktop notes, projects & work journal.

Recently I was looking for a self-hosted equivalent to Google Keep (which I use mainly for lists, quick notes and web snippets), and tried out Joplin. It looked pretty good, but I wanted a web app frontend, which Joplin doesn't seem to have. I'm now trying out Memos [1] now, and it's pretty good so far (though I would love to see postgres support in Memos as well as the current sqlite DB).

[1] https://usememos.com/

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

#186

Post by gessha »

pseufaux wrote: post #90
ycombinete wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What app do you use instead of Joplin for notes?

Obsidian. It's not perfect but I like a lot of what it brings. Particularly, I like that the notes remain in an accessible format (though as long as the format is not proprietary I'd be fine) and the mass of third party plugins supports basically any workflow. The main issue for me is the fact that the main app is not open source (not for any particular reason other than that I like supporting open source initiatives…

Obsidian user as well.

Self-hosted LiveSync extension works wonders after you tune it a bit.

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

#188

Post by banku_brougham »

Icathian wrote: post #88

Joplin is a gem of open source, and I use it daily on all of my machines. I'm so grateful to have a good FOSS notes app that syncs cross platform. I've been a patron for years and recommended it to lots of people. If anyone has questions about how I use it or my workflow I'm happy to shill this app more, lol. I know Obsidian is the cool kid right now but I just absolutely can't imagine using a closed source app for s…

Joplin is great. But there is a huge gotcha if you start using it from iOS instrad of laptop client first -- you can never connect access phone notes from other device.

This was true last year, hopefully was fixed.

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

#189

Post by theshrike79 »

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #181
theshrike79 wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like I said, the "database" is just a directory of files. You can use anything you want to keep it synced. I've used OneDrive, Dropbox and iCloud to sync mine.

I'd much prefer "syncing" to be something I set up once, and then forget about it. If it is "anything I want to do to keep it synced", then I'll be half-assing it forever, losing notes and so forth. Already doing that, and the 500 pages of notes from 3 years ago on Google drive, to the "attach it in Gmail to a draft so I can look it over at home", hell even a few somewhere on iCloud. For some things others might be i…

I pointed my Obsidian vaults to iCloud and haven't had to think about it ever since.

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

#190

Post by agadius »

Love Joplin! I love it so much, my lazy ass actually donated. I spent quite some time searching for open source alternatives that don’t have an ulterior motive. Currently using nextcloud sync and it works. Sometimes the iOS app and the Linux desktop app are out of sync, but a sync fixes that. Would love to see mTLS implemented at some point!
Post reply on HN