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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 bhl »

angleofrepose wrote: post #16
bhl wrote: post #2

If you search 'Markdown' on HackerNews, it'd seem like the 'market' for markdown editors is fragmented: there isn't a single dominant editor yet. I think every week there's a new editor posted (Joplin is an exception given that it's been here for a while). Why is that the case?

I think it is because each comes with its own opinionated workflow, and missing features. Each has a way of writing markdown/connecting notes that is novel, which means each other option is missing that feature. A take away from this scenario might be that this design space is wanting for a meta-editor. Some tool which allows feature creation in the same context as these markdown/note tools. An analogy might be that…

I've been looking at the ProseMirror as a way of building this meta-editor that could have plug-and-play components. The issue is, although the library is open-source, there hasn't been many open-sourced components that people have built. Ideally, we could go one step forward and abstract away the npm library; then everybody could build their custom editor by mixing components. One editor that sort of does this is StandardNotes but I haven't tried building something for it yet.

[1] https://prosemirror.net/ [2] https://standardnotes.org/extensions

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

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Post by detaro »

bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #13
hollander wrote: post #5

I'm looking for an Evernote alternative since long. Evernote is one of my favourite applications, but I fear the moment when Amazon or Google or Microsoft buys it like Fitbit or Nest. It is going to happen, and I put more and more info into that app. I'm definitely going to try this and I truly hope it is good enough for me.

Notion.so is a good one

I'm not sure the best response to "I'm worried the cloud service I use might get bought and changed" is recommending another VC funded cloud service. But I've heard good things about Notion as a product too.

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

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Post by jasonl99 »

nico_h wrote: post #8

I’m looking for a multi-platform (linux-mac-ios) markdown editor that saves at regular interval and keeps history and sync via git. Is there anything like that? How hard would it be to extend joplin to write a service driver to sync via Git(-hub / -lab / your own server)?

I started using (and subscribed to) Inkdrop[1] after recommendations here and have been very happy with it. Yes, it's $5 a month, but it automatically syncs (encrypted locally first), and has a way of doing full local directory backup that you could sync with github. The the editor is really nicely done (full github-flavor syntax highlighting too).

I'm using clients for Mac, Android and linux (manjaro) and all work well. There are also clients for the other major platforms.

One of the things I really like about it is I can do a screenshot on both Mac & linux, saving to the clipboard rather than a file, and paste it directly into an editor and inkdrop handles everything, including creating a file and corresponding markup. And that all syncs too.

[1] https://inkdrop.app/

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

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Post by EricE »

schuke wrote: post #10

After years of searching I’ve pretty much settled on one note-taking app: Apple Notes. Quite unexpected to me as well because I started off just to sort of “cache” random notes in it before sorting them out in OneNote. Then I found myself almost stopped using OneNote. It’s just ubiquitous enough when you have a few extra PC devices, (unlike say, Bear) and versatile enough so it’s not limited to texts like Notational…

If you have any amount of Apple devices in your daily orbit, it's pretty amazing how useful Apple Notes is.

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

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Post by evil-olive »

fandaa wrote: post #20

I would recommend https://standardnotes.org/ after trying all other (OneNote, Boostnote, QOwnNotes, etc.) note taking SWs. Encrypted linked storage (S3, Dropbox, ...) for files, encrypted notes, multiplatform, multiple editors (code, 2FA, markdown, spreadsheets, your own!, ...) & can be self hosted. Easy (also encrypted) backups. I only miss the diagrams tool (like draw.io) or handwriting (touch/pen) support.

I was a Standard Notes user, including a premium plan, but recently switched to Joplin and I've been very happy with it.

I like Standard Notes' no-nonsense business model, with the downside that the free version is heavily feature-crippled (not even a Markdown editor, just plain text).

The Standard Notes server is self-hostable, but it requires a dedicated backend server [0] which was more hassle than I wanted to deal with. Joplin integrates much more nicely with Syncthing for self-hosted but still peer-to-peer replication.

0: https://standardnotes.org/help/47/can-i-self-host-standard-n...

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

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Post by hirundo »

> Recognition data - Evernote images, in particular scanned (or photographed) documents have recognition data associated with them. It is the text that Evernote has been able to recognise in the document. This data is not preserved when the note are imported into Joplin. However, should it become supported in the search tool or other parts of Joplin, it should be possible to regenerate this recognition data since the actual image would still be available.

This is the feature that has me locked in to Evernote and no one else seems to have. I'll be watching this repo and jump over as soon as it becomes supported.

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

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Post by mastercheif »

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 Pocket.

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

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Post by PowerfulWizard »

EricE wrote: post #25
schuke wrote: post #10

After years of searching I’ve pretty much settled on one note-taking app: Apple Notes. Quite unexpected to me as well because I started off just to sort of “cache” random notes in it before sorting them out in OneNote. Then I found myself almost stopped using OneNote. It’s just ubiquitous enough when you have a few extra PC devices, (unlike say, Bear) and versatile enough so it’s not limited to texts like Notational…

If you have any amount of Apple devices in your daily orbit, it's pretty amazing how useful Apple Notes is.

I like it too and I think due to connecting the mail app to my gmail all my notes end up on gmail under a "Notes" tag which is very convenient.
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