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Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use

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Post by MezzoDelCammin »

burnished wrote: post #25
Ringz wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since Joplin's developer decided to put all Markdown files into a database and thus give up all the advantages of a flat file system, I have uninstalled Joplin. In my view, the last discussion in Joplin's forum on this topic further discredited the developer.

That seems an odd take given the content of the discussion: https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/why-im-leaving-joplin-for-... Especially since it looks like a solution via plugin was identified? Thanks for bringing it up though, I went for spicy programmer drama but instead found a somewhat interesting and incredibly polite disagreement. I am curious about what happened that they have such a solid opinion about accepta…

Thanks for bringing this one up. It's almost strange to see a civilized discussion about something that clearly polarizes a lot of people in the thread. Makes me wonder exactly what kind of social dynamic results in a bunch of people actually talking through their differences, instead of the these days usual trench warfare...

Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use

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Post by atoav »

uxp8u61q wrote: post #27
atoav wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In which format are the notes stored? Many of us have been bitten by vendor lock in before, so we prefer our notes tobe in simple human readable formats that can also be read in 30 years when your app (more likely than not) doesn't exist anymore.

If you expect that your notes will still be valuable in 30 years, then you should probably migrate them to something other than a quick note taking app. If everything I wrote into onenote before eg last year disappeared right now, I wouldn't lose much sleep.

Why would I do that? I use only apps that use text files anyways. I am pretty confident I will be able to open them in 30 years.

Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

burnished wrote: post #25
Ringz wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since Joplin's developer decided to put all Markdown files into a database and thus give up all the advantages of a flat file system, I have uninstalled Joplin. In my view, the last discussion in Joplin's forum on this topic further discredited the developer.

That seems an odd take given the content of the discussion: https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/why-im-leaving-joplin-for-... Especially since it looks like a solution via plugin was identified? Thanks for bringing it up though, I went for spicy programmer drama but instead found a somewhat interesting and incredibly polite disagreement. I am curious about what happened that they have such a solid opinion about accepta…

>incredibly polite disagreement

Not sure I agree. Here's one comment by the developer (laurent):

"Ok, there's so much wrong in what you write about that it's hard to know where to start. I guess it would help if you had a clue about what you're talking about."

https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/why-im-leaving-joplin-for-...

Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use

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Post by poulpy123 »

anticrymactic wrote: post #26
DeathArrow wrote: post #22

Is there a free, cross platform note taking app (mobile, PC, Mac) that allows you to save on cloud and sync?

Obsidian + Syncthing

I found syncthing lost severals of my changes . I settled on the live sync plugin and for the moment it works nicely

Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use

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Post by rubymamis »

cjbprime wrote: post #7

FWIW I need a Kanban board view from a note-taking app, am using extensions which add one to Obsidian and vscode.

I’m working on a new block editor that will have Kanban board supprt within your note[1].

I already made a Kanban board for my previous note-taking app but it’s in a different view[2][3].

[1] https://www.get-plume.com/

[2] https://rubymamistvalove.com/notes/kanban.mp4

[3] https://www.get-notes.com/

Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use

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Post by bayindirh »

szszrk wrote: post #30
vunderba wrote: post #21

Nice going. I've gone through quite the list of note taking tools from a bunch of unorganized text files, to Microsoft OneNote, to Evernote before it became a total pile of molten garbage, Logseq, and finally settled on Obsidian. There's a healthy ecosystem of plug-ins, searching is highly performant, all of my files are just structured in folders as markdown files so there's zero vendor lock-in, has a very good mobi…

What you disliked about Logseq? Are you good at self-organizing (were you before)? While the initial experience is super confusing and I barely knew what that tool is supposed to do, later on it turned out to be the first tool that helped me keep some structure in my notes. I love note taking but I'm horrible at it, chaotic and inconsistent. Daily notes plus the way logseq easily links articles gave me some decent no…

Logseq is "Everything plus the kitchen sink" when compared to Obsidian out of the box.

For me, I already have a daily planning and project management tool, and it's called Pagico. What I needed is a note taking application. Simple, down to earth, knowledge base. A successor to Zim wiki, I may say.

That thing is Obsidian. I tried to resist to moving it for so long because it's closed source, but it creates value and extracts structure and knowledge from your Markdown files, locally and super-fast, without bogging you down.

Also, logseq's webpage is very ambiguous. Tons of promises, no screenshots, you enter the live demo, it looks like a simple web page.

In short, Logseq feels too big, feels too hard to start with, and demands too much at the first impression. If failed to get me, and I failed to get it.

Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use

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Post by Sakos »

atoav wrote: post #32
uxp8u61q wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you expect that your notes will still be valuable in 30 years, then you should probably migrate them to something other than a quick note taking app. If everything I wrote into onenote before eg last year disappeared right now, I wouldn't lose much sleep.

Why would I do that? I use only apps that use text files anyways. I am pretty confident I will be able to open them in 30 years.

I even have files from 20+ years ago that I can open just fine, including notes.

If you use something proprietary, then yeah, it might be difficult. But that doesn't stop us from asking whether something we're interested in using now uses data formats that would be easily readable in 20-30 years.

Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use

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Post by arbitrandomuser »

bayindirh wrote: post #37
szszrk wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you disliked about Logseq? Are you good at self-organizing (were you before)? While the initial experience is super confusing and I barely knew what that tool is supposed to do, later on it turned out to be the first tool that helped me keep some structure in my notes. I love note taking but I'm horrible at it, chaotic and inconsistent. Daily notes plus the way logseq easily links articles gave me some decent no…

Logseq is "Everything plus the kitchen sink" when compared to Obsidian out of the box. For me, I already have a daily planning and project management tool, and it's called Pagico. What I needed is a note taking application. Simple, down to earth, knowledge base. A successor to Zim wiki, I may say. That thing is Obsidian. I tried to resist to moving it for so long because it's closed source, but it creates value and e…

I hate it that all their explanations are videos and not articles I can read
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