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Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Post by seized »

ibic wrote: post #122
henrysarabia wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds like what you're looking for is Notion. It checks most of your boxes, I believe.

I just switched from Notion (and Evernote, Google Keep) to Joplin, and currently I'm quite satisfied with its offering. Some cons I felt while using Notion: - Mandatory to log in using a Google account is a _very_ big pushback for me - I need it to work all the time offline. - E2EE encryption? I don't think it's there. It's something I strongly desire for privacy reason. - It's a freemium subscription modal, I have n…

Take a look at Standard Notes. It can be self hosted and has E2EE. It's not quite a replacement for some features but there is a web clipping add-on in development.

Note that it is paid, the company has a longevity statement around that.

Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Post by arbie »

ab_io wrote: post #111

Since none of the top comments seem to directly discuss Joplin itself, let me just say that I’ve been using it for years, and it’s great.

If it (or Notion.so) supported Inking, I would switch completely from my combination of GDocs, GKeep and GoodNotes5.

Will see if I can contribute to this project.

Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Post by Meph504 »

leppr wrote: post #124
Meph504 wrote: post #57

This application makes use of ip-api.com by default, this site is free for non-commercial use only. this should probably be reconsidered, or least made clear to everyone.

I don't see any commercial offering here, seems to be based entirely on donations.

This doesnt just apply to if the application was sold, but if it is used in a commercial environment, I.E. If you plan on using it at work, this would likely be considered commercial use.

Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Post by arbie »

mastercheif wrote: post #29
crazypython wrote: post #17

I use DevonThink. It's great-- excellent capture-from-web features. It has See Also, and folders.

I’m 20 days into my trial of DevonThink and I’m getting close to pulling the trigger. I’m using it as a hybrid read-later pocket replacement + personal knowledge database. The combination of “See Also” auto suggestions for inbox sorting and deep search capabilities is everything I had been wanting in a PKM suite. I wish they had extended the auto-sorting/suggestions to the tags feature, it’s my favorite feature of Po…

Is there a Windows or Web client for DevonThink?

Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Post by mattlockyer »

Would you consider data privacy and features that enhance protections for end users becoming popular? Bear Notes just added a "vault" style feature. With all the leaks, hacks, and mis-use of personal data, surely there's something brewing in the market?

Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Post by laurent123456 »

oefrha wrote: post #49

Off topic, but anyone else annoyed by these walls of contributor avatars in READMEs popular in the JS ecosystem? Occasionally they only include a handful of project members, with roles, so it could be mildly useful, but more often than not it’s a pointless list of just avatar and handle of everyone who ever fixed a typo, and if I want to see the list I’d better click on “contributors” which is built into every GitHub…

The avatar list I guess is a way to thank the contributors, and it's at the bottom of the readme so shouldn't be a big annoyance for most readers. There's a screenshot of the desktop app at the top of the readme.

Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Post by laurent123456 »

fabiospampinato wrote: post #44

Disclosure: I work at a competitor note-taking app called Notable [0], so I'm somewhat biased. I've made a comparison table [1] comparing Joplin and other popular note-taking apps, you may find it useful. Joplin could have been my go-to note-taking app, but IMO they made a few bad design decisions and there are few things I really don't like about it, maybe listing some of them from my point of view could be useful e…

If your opinion is biased, as you said, why do you even share it? Just be honest that you want to advertise your (commercial) product.

Your "comparison" is just a long list of what you think if bad about Joplin, as if there could not be a single good thing about it - there's nothing neutral or fair about any of it. You're just denigrating competition and advertising your own stuff.

I guess it's to be expected from someone whose tagline is "the app that doesn't suck", yet heavily copying features from all these other apps, which presumably, suck.

Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Post by brakus127 »

I've been using Joplin for a few months now. So far it seems to fit my requirements better than any other note taking app I've tried - and I've tried plenty - including my own Jupyter based solution. - future proof (it's open source) - standard/open format for notes (uses mark down which is easy to write and easy enough to parse if needed in the future) - sync support and conflict detection - Kudos to their implementation here, it's very versatile. I use Syncthing and it's worked very well for me. - support for multiple clients (I use Linux, Android, OS X and Windows) - stable (no issues so far)

The major issue I have is it doesn't support stylus based notes like Onenote. A partial solution would be to extend Joplin to support additional file types so I can keep all my notes together when they are different types. For now, I keep my written notes separate.

If stylus support isn't a requirement for you, I strongly recommend Joplin. I've tried a number of closed and open source note taking tools - Joplin hits the sweet spot for me. For a long time I used Jupyter for taking notes with custom scripts for Search. It's been pretty good however it had two major shortcomings: no android client and the Jupyter client had poor conflict detection when using a a file based sync tool like Syncthing.

Re: Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities

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Post by ddsea »

YeahSureWhyNot wrote: post #121
ddsea wrote: post #36

I felt that Evernote was becoming increasingly constraining and slow/flaky, so after trying a few alternatives (text files/dirs, SimpleNote, Apple Notes, BoostNotes, Zim, etc), I've made a leap of faith to Joplin. My requirements: multi-platform, multi-device, auto-sync (more than 2 devices in free ver.), tags, webclip-ability, preferably markdown format with code rendering. Text diagramming such as PlantUML is a big…

did you test Google Keep?

I use it all the time - it's great but mostly for lists such as TODO, etc. - it is very convenient for syncing across devices where I login with my G. account. My notes are usually longer articles, often with images, tables, diagrams, code snippets, etc.
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