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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 Icathian »

vwadhwani wrote: post #166
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…

Vim keybindings are possible* with the exception of hitting :q to exit*. For that, you still need to type :exit. * https://www.reddit.com/r/joplinapp/comments/ww4crz/vim_mode_... ** https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/236

Ah this is really helpful. Thanks!

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

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Post by awill »

Tomte wrote: post #136
awill wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 leav…

It works well enough. I've never had a problem. This background process issue may prevent optimal operation, but I've never seen a file not being synced quickly in practice. Just get Möbius Sync ( https://www.mobiussync.com/ ) and don't overthink it.

Ok. You've convinced me. I'll give it a try :)

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

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Post by tlavoie »

banku_brougham wrote: post #188
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.

I think this is working fine now. I do have one current irritation, but understand that it is resolved by getting all the clients updated. (Just waiting on NixOS to update its version).

Basically, I enabled encryption, synced devices one at a time. I think my iOS client is a newer version than desktop, so I have a warning about the couple new entries that can't be decrypted (yet) on desktop.

I know I could go and figure out the update for my local install, but can wait a bit for the moment.

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

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Post by jjnoakes »

duckmysick wrote: post #120
jjnoakes wrote: post #111

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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).

The install method itself is not unsafe when compared to most other install methods. It gets a bad rap for no reason.

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

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Post by dizhn »

rubymamis wrote: post #146
dizhn wrote: post #142

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> Currently, it uses a DB Nice little program. This is the reason I had skipped it after testing since I wanted it to use it on multiple platforms with syncing handled by me. Btw, you're adding Kanban support?

I can understand. Supporting plaintext/.md files in folders will be our main focus for the release after the next one. And yes, this will be released soon for Notes v2.2.0. Work in progress video: https://i.imgur.com/VCt0Zvg.mp4

I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks.

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

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Post by bobbylarrybobby »

maroonblazer wrote: post #133
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…

> If anyone has questions about how I use it or my workflow I'm happy to shill this app more, lol. I've recently begun using Joplin and am still futzing my way around. Would love to hear about anyone else's workflow. One question, not specific to Joplin, I always have with note-taking apps is what's the best way to organize content? Or do you not worry about that and simply use tags to create structure/relationships?

As a Logseq user I'd say that your last sentence/question is correct. The graph that emerges from your page references forms the primary form of structure. If you want to be able to find X by searching for Y, either mention Y in X or tag X with Y. In addition, though, when you have a page foo/bar/baz, foo and foo/bar also become their own pages (not folders per se, although they'll show baz as a child) which does let you get a folder hierarchy if you need it (and every folder comes with an index.md, because it's a bona fide page). Especially useful for nested tags like #movie/comedy.

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Post by crossroadsguy »

laurent123456 wrote: post #52
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…

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

Joplin as a FOSS app is really a good initiative and I keep trying it from time to time. However having used smartphones for more than a decade now (and being a mobile developer) I have realised that, whatever would be the reason for an Electron app (there might be valid ones like resource, time, target audience etc), an electron app just doesn't cut it. So I doubt I can use an electron app on mobile. Problem is it shows :(

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Post by grepfru_it »

princevegeta89 wrote: post #159
jl6 wrote: post #145

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I use Joplin extensively on multiple devices and I find that the only way to completely avoid sync conflicts is to make sure you hit sync after entering data on one device, and then hit sync on the other device before using it.

Interesting, thanks for confirming.. not sure yet if I want to jump back to Joplin yet.

Joplin and nextcloud/WebDAV was horrible. Horrible. I can’t go back, trilium is way more extendable

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Post by grepfru_it »

ycombinete wrote: post #83
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…

What app do you use instead of Joplin for notes?

Trilium

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

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Post by grepfru_it »

anta40 wrote: post #69
Tomte wrote: post #66

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You're changing some note on device A and the same note differently on device B. Both sync. You now have a conflict. With text files, you at least have obvious merge strategies. With SQLite it isn't quite as easy. I still don't mind SQLite in Joplin. It has advantages, as well.

Ah the multiple devices issue. I see...

How about doing everything server side so you are just using a thin client (read: web browser) instead?

See trilium: https://github.com/zadam/trilium

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