Past related threads:<p><i>Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with sync</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22439485" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22439485</a> - Feb 2020 (36 comments)<p><i>Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21555238" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21555238</a> - Nov 2019 (150 comments)<p><i>Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15815040" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15815040</a> - Nov 2017 (204 comments)
Joplin is great, been using it for a little over a year now.<p>What's not the best is react native is... complex (rightfully so, many layers of abstraction) and it's hard to contribute unless you really grok every layer (JS/React/iOS Apps/XCode)<p>I tried to fix the spinner direction on mobile and trying to test was _challenging_. That said, If you are a react native expert, and can spare literally 30 min and wanna help feel free to take a look: <a href="https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/pull/4506" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/pull/4506</a>
I used it for quite some time, but a couple of things have made me stop using it as of late.<p>Firstly, its just not very nice to look at, especially compared to something like Notion. I want something thats a joy to work in.<p>Secondly, the mobile experience kinda sucks. I used to use it to maintain a list of when i've taken my medication. Upon opening the app, i first have to wait to make sure my notes are fully synced from anything I changed on my laptop. Then once ive updated the note, I have to wait for the notes to be synced before i close it. If you close the app before syncing completes, it wont work.<p>Also all sorts of UX issues in the app, primary one I can think of is the keyboard going over the top of the text you are trying to write.<p>In general, a lot of the time I dont really have the need to have a see both a markdown-rendered window, and the text window. I end up closing the markdown-render window so I have more screen area to see what im writing. But then it just doesn't look good?<p>Im not trying to hate on Joplin, I really want to enjoy it. I even wrote a plugin for it. Does anyone have any similar thoughts?
One missing feature that has been requested many times, and largely ignored, is linking between pages quickly like in Confluence or a wiki. The biggest value in taking notes for me, comes from the ability to link multiple notes together freely and quickly.
So many people here are going to be one of today's lucky 10,000 [1] to learn about the awesomeness that Joplin is.<p>It's been around for quite a long time, in active development, with a nice ecosystem and well-polished featureset and interface.<p>I've been loving it for the time I've been using it. It even has a web clipper.<p>[1]: <a href="https://xkcd.com/1053/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/1053/</a>
For me Obsidian is better but Joplin tramples it because it is open source<p>Pros:
- Open source
- Rich markdown with math notation, code highlighting and more
- Sincronizable
- Actively maintained<p>Cons:
- Not so polished, especially in mobile
- Less support for linking short notes than, say, Obsidian
- Difficult to contribute to codebase
I've transitioned to Joplin as my every day note taking app. Evernote did their dash with me when they limited to 2 devices (I was considering paying for it until that point, it showed that they're willing to change terms on a whim).<p>OneNote never resonated with me.<p>I was just syncing a directory of MD files for a while.<p>Joplin ended up working well for me, syncing to my own NextCloud server. The only thing I wish were different is that it wasn't an Electron app using heaps of memory (this is what stopped me adopting it earlier).
I wrote down some notes from previous discussions about note-taking apps, and one negative point I got for Joplin is that it uses an opaque & unstructured file naming: <UUID>.md<p>I guess this didn't change? While it seems arbitrary, I really would prefer to have some more readable names for when I access my notes with a plain text editor. Not being forced to use the same program everywhere in case I'm not on my computer or I'm in a hurry somehow and the software is not installed.
Just put markdown in a private git repo. There are good markdown editors (and git clients) for desktop and mobile. Much more portable and less reliant on some specific software.
I have been looking for note taking apps and shorted listed Joplin and Trilium [1].<p>I'm currently experimenting with Trilium since couple of days. While it looks complex at first, it seems to have a lot of extensibility which might make it "future proof" for extensive data.<p>So far it looks good.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/zadam/trilium" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zadam/trilium</a>
I could use the <i>opposite</i>:<p>A TODO-app which has <i>no</i> synchronization capabilities so I don't need to worry about leakage of private data.<p>Ideally it would use a very simple plaintext file format for its database so it is future proof, e.g. <a href="http://todotxt.org/" rel="nofollow">http://todotxt.org/</a><p>The TODO.txt format seems very nice but the Android apps listed on that site are either not fully developed or unmaintained, and one even looks like it's not open source.<p>Simpletask seems like the most advanced implementation, but it got kicked out of Google Play for the usual Google shenanigans, so the author says on a sticky GitHub issue that he has lost motivation: <a href="https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-android/issues/1110" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-android/issues/1110</a>
joplin is one of the initial open source note taking tools with cross platform and device support. they were an inspiration for me for making my own note taking tool.<p>shameless plug: if your looking for a modern dev focused note taking tool, would love to get feedback on what you think of <a href="https://wiki.dendron.so/" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.dendron.so/</a>
I am a heavy one note user with a group we all sync our notes to a network drive abs it works well.<p>Would this be equivalent but supports iOS and Linux?