Joplin is an open source note-taking app
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Joplin is an open source note-taking app
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Re: Joplin is an open source note-taking app
#2Past thread (2021): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27520906
Re: Joplin is an open source note-taking app
#3I'm an Evernote refugee struggling with Joplin and Obsidian this morning. I've got thousands of PDF notes going back decades, and the ability to search on their OCR has kept me on Evernote for years. But the latest Joplin includes OCR out of the box, and Obsidian has the Omnisearch/Text Extractor plugins to add it.
Both of those use Tesseract to do OCR locally. I've got it working on Joplin fairly well. But it hardly works at all on Obsidian. That's unfortunate because Obsidian seems to be a much more user friendly and responsive app over all. Since I need the OCR search capability so badly though, I'm about to settle for Joplin. That's not a terrible fate, but the grass seems greener on the Obsidian side.
I wish I could replace Tesseract with some industrial strength OCR though.
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#4I have worked on note-taking app but sadly I am not smart enough to get table editing support under iOS/macOS with NSText
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#5I use Microsoft's OneDrive free account to keep Joplin synced between devices.
Works like a charm. Currently using 0.7GB out of 5GB.
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#6My problem with Joplin is that on my M1 Macbook pro it really shows how much of an Electron app it really is, in the worst ways. Extreme memory use and UI lag for an application which displays text. That said, aside from performance it's quite satisfying to use. It's very simple and does its job well.
I recently migrated to Obsidian and although the learning curve is steeper, I'm quite happy with the results.
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#7I'm an Evernote refugee struggling with Joplin and Obsidian this morning. I've got thousands of PDF notes going back decades, and the ability to search on their OCR has kept me on Evernote for years. But the latest Joplin includes OCR out of the box, and Obsidian has the Omnisearch/Text Extractor plugins to add it. Both of those use Tesseract to do OCR locally. I've got it working on Joplin fairly well. But it hardly…
That's not really what these tools are made for. Look into zotero or devontjink and use the note taking app for notes.
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#8I like Joplin’s sync server, which can be self hosted.
I just wish it didn't require having the app loaded to use. I actually use it with another editor on Linux. (It works surprisingly well with VS Code for example.)
But it's the best we have for Android, sadly.
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#9Joplin works well for what it does and is good enough for regular note-taking. Has most features like live view, webclipper, sync & plugins for that extra missing functionality.
What you don't get is a "polished" UI with a WYSIWYG editor.
The storage format is markdown, but it has its own way of organizing files[1]. If your notetaking process includes multiple editors(other than joplin apps) then joplin may not be the best choice.
[1]. https://joplinapp.org/help/faq/#is-it-possible-to-use-real-f...
Re: Joplin is an open source note-taking app
#10I'm an Evernote refugee struggling with Joplin and Obsidian this morning. I've got thousands of PDF notes going back decades, and the ability to search on their OCR has kept me on Evernote for years. But the latest Joplin includes OCR out of the box, and Obsidian has the Omnisearch/Text Extractor plugins to add it. Both of those use Tesseract to do OCR locally. I've got it working on Joplin fairly well. But it hardly…
That's not really what these tools are made for. Look into zotero or devontjink and use the note taking app for notes.
Thanks for the leads, but I need it on Linux and Android. You appear to be right about this use case being a stretch for Joplin/Obsidian.