Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal

Currently I am very happy with my note taking setup, it consists of 3 modules:<p>1. Black Moleskine notebook where I write down ideas, and explain myself some complicated code for example. I use it more as a &quot;mind-organiser&quot; if I may say so...<p>2. Emacs&#x27; org-mode, where I write down my dev. progress on weekly level, lay down monthly plans and goals and write down some of the random stuff that I like to order into lists. And I use it more since I found out really good iOS app for org mode called &quot;beorg&quot;. It is really awesome, I sync it with Dropbox and it works really, really well.<p>3. Apple Notes as my scribble kind of thing since synchronization works instantaneously between my iPhone and Macs. I use it mostly as my iPhone on-the-go noting system, and later on if I find something important I pass it to the org file or write it down into the black notebook.

Just installed (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;laurent22&#x2F;joplin&#x2F;releases&#x2F;download&#x2F;v0.10.28&#x2F;Joplin-Setup-0.10.28.exe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;laurent22&#x2F;joplin&#x2F;releases&#x2F;download&#x2F;v0.10....</a>) on Windows 7. Went straight into Options to see what&#x27;s what...noted that geo-location of notes is on by default and wasn&#x27;t able to switch this off. I know generally where I am when I take notes...I don&#x27;t need this on by default. Uninstalled.

I wish this app&#x27;s creator had a Patreon so I could donate to it&#x27;s development. Money is far more portable than development time especially since there is a sunk cost in starting up.<p>Please set one up and msg me and I&#x27;ll gladly contribute. I&#x27;m a daily, heavy Evernote user and I would love some competition to this great app and the ability to have an open-source option.

This looks great. I hope you might prioritize adding a web clipper. For me, the Evernote Web Clipper plugin&#x2F;extension is the killer app. The rest of Evernote isn&#x27;t great, but their web clipper is incredibly useful to me.

I&#x27;ve been using Typora to make my todo lists recently. It&#x27;s a markdown editor too. Super simple to type, and you can really got some professional looking layout, with headings and titles quickly too. Recently they built in a file browser. Open one file in a directory, and it will show you all the files in side panel. Which in my case are just todo lists for day of the week. But it could be any type of notes. Highly recommend it. For Example typing ###Title would give a large title typing - [ ] will give you a checkbox, and so on

Still waiting for a nice rich text note taking tool that can compete with the likes of DevonThink and EverNote. I don&#x27;t get the underlying fascination with using markdown.

This is very close to ideal for me. I&#x27;ve been moving away from Google Keep (and google in general recently, using Fastmail, microg fork of LineageOS on Fairphone 2, orgzly, vim org-mode Nextcloud etc etc) and the one thing that I missed was easily been able to dump photos and images into notes.<p>I&#x27;ve had a play with this briefly and I will be using it full time. As soon as it offers nextcloud sync it really ticks all of my boxes. The terminal client is a really nice touch.

Since I can&#x27;t test it right now: Does this use some kind of database to store the notes? The readme talks about syncing, including to the file system.<p>Why are the notes not simply stored as files in the first place? Would this not be much easier than constant exporting&#x2F;importing to various providers?

Why is this better than Orgmode? Orgmode is human readable, opens in any text editor, handles everything from bullet points to tables, and Github even has a Markdown-like renderer for Orgmode files.

Interesting app. I&#x27;m currently using todo.txt [1] and am quite happy with it. It&#x27;s not really a note taking app (although I could use it that way) but rather a todo app and it uses a pure text file and syncs with dropbox nicely. I use an Android app as well [2].<p>There&#x27;s a bunch of plugins for it but I haven&#x27;t used any of them yet.<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;todotxt.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;todotxt.org&#x2F;</a> [2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=nl.mpcjanssen.todotxtholo&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=nl.mpcjanssen....</a>

Question for the people here ... are there any good SOCIAL apps like this?<p>I mean, for example, being able to assign tasks to others (like in Redmine &#x2F; JIRA) and be notified of progress&#x2F;completion.<p>Or collaboration on notes and permissions etc. Straight from your phone instead of some google doc.<p>And maybe turning those notes into tasks later.<p>What would you use?

I recently went farther down the note-taking rabbit hole than I care to admit. I wanted the app to be cross platform (macOS&#x2F;win10&#x2F;Arch (Gnome)). What I found was that by separating my two use cases -- web clipping and Markdown&#x2F;Gist-like notes -- I was able to find a sweet spot (for now).<p>the abbreviated version of my setup is this:<p>AmazonBasics dotted notebook as my primary note taking device. I use a system similar to a bullet journal.<p>Microsoft OneNote for web clipping. The web client is good enough if I need to read notes on linux. I use Boostnote for programming notes &#x2F; Markdown. Then, at the end of the day, I type my notes from my physical notebook in to OneNote for searchability.<p>I know that my setup is not earth shattering. But that&#x27;s kind of my point. I spent a lot of time searching high and low for a fully digital solution. I assumed that I would find several excellent cross-platform note taking applications to choose from. I was wrong. They were either not very good at taking notes, or the few that are good, are not cross platform. Honorable mention to Simplenote and Quiver. Quiver is solid if you&#x27;re only on a Mac.

I honestly just think that org-mode should receive more widespread adoption and attention, especially within the developer community. It does everything. All those new products are sort of reinventing the wheels, and in a 100 times less feature-rich manner.<p>The only gripe I have with org-mode is its awkward mobile support. But Orgzly does a decent job on Android and I rarely type on mobile, which is hugely ineffective anyways.

May I suggest QOwnNotes as an alternative to this? It&#x27;s also cross-platform (not sure about mobile) and it&#x27;s not another shitty electron app.

Side question: why did you name the application Joplin? (My hometown is Joplin, MO and I&#x27;m curious if you&#x27;re also from or living there.) My other two guesses for its etymology are Janis Joplin and Scott Joplin.

OK, once: &quot;Coming features All: End to end encryption&quot; is implemented then I&#x27;m up for giving this a try. The plain text format and markdown support is good features.

I take notes like this:<p><pre><code> vim ~&#x2F;documents&#x2F;notes</code></pre>

Every time I see a post like this on HAN I think of this guy... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;hawkexpress&#x2F;sets&#x2F;72157594200490122&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flickr.com&#x2F;photos&#x2F;hawkexpress&#x2F;sets&#x2F;7215759420049...</a>

I&#x27;ve played with a bunch of note tools, but once you need collaborative and painless synchronisation across platforms, your options really shrink. (I ended up with Google Keep, but it&#x27;s not ideal.)<p>As soon as we get Keybase FS on Android, this kind of tool becomes extremely interesting.

This looks very nice, well done. I&#x27;m surprised that nobody mentioned Workflowy in here, it&#x27;s what I mainly use and found it fits my frame of mind the best. It&#x27;s just infinitely recursive lists that let you zoom in on a particular subset. Next up on my list is learning Emacs + org mode to see how I like that.

This is great! I&#x27;m happy that more apps are converging on what I&#x27;ve started doing already anyway (keep plain markdown files on my disk). I got burned a few times too many trying to export&#x2F;migrate my notes from some service&#x27;s proprietary format.

I like the idea of an app with integrated notes and todos, and love that its open source, but this is really lacking in the todo department. No drag-and-drop reordering and no deadlines&#x2F;grouping by date makes it pretty useless for anything approaching a decent workflow.<p>I&#x27;ve tried pretty much everything and still haven&#x27;t found anything with the features&#x2F;ease-of-use&#x2F;good design of Wunderlist (which is still lacking in features, and has a fast approaching EOL). Considering todo apps are the modern version of hello world I would think we&#x27;d have a lot of good options (or does that reasoning actually mean there are a lot of half-baked options?)

Does it support inline images?<p>I&#x27;m using Quiver for Mac, but really a cross platform solution would be more appropriate.<p>I tend to take notes&#x2F;drawings on paper then take pictures of the useful stuff and put it into Quiver so I can see it in context

Any tips or recommendations for a &quot;note-taking and to-do&quot; mobile app that would allow dictation, speech to text?<p>My use-case is recording quick notes and TODOs, which often come at the weirdest of moments (no computer, no paper).<p>I feel there&#x27;s a market for something super simple: a speech recognition fast enough and good enough that I can later read <i>and understand</i> what I said.<p>Everything I&#x27;ve tried so far was either too cumbersome (I need it to start recording fast, just like taking a snap picture) or its transcriptions too crappy (no idea what was said, even conceptually).

Interesting to see AppImage actually in use. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;appimage.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;appimage.org&#x2F;</a>

Good God - it&#x27;s a note taking app that installs sqlite, sharp, and more than 300 other things... well into the millions of lines of code.

Good job. A bit too clunky on Windows for me (e.g., setting an alarm for a task), but I like the concept and the multi-environmental access aspect.<p>I&#x27;ve recently started using TickTick (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ticktick.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ticktick.com</a>) and been pretty happy with it, thought not accessible from a terminal.

Not supported on my chromebook. Please allow me to install the chromebook app on android.

This is something I have been wanting for a while a note taking app with a terminal app and syncing... unfortunately installing all these tools from an unknown source makes me a bit leery.

While we are at it. Has anyone tried Dropbox Paper for note taking?

the only thing I want to ask is weather these apps will last about 30 years+. When the support for a note taking app dies it causes a lot of head aches. Remember google notebook?

Just downloaded it and was checking it out. What is the difference between a todo and a note? Am I missing something? I am just using the UI not the terminal at this time.

Bit of a left-field question here: how hard would it be to integrate with Google Home where you could dictate your notes, listen to them or mark todos as completed?

If you&#x27;re working in a terminal, all you need to take notes is vi or emacs. No need to complicate things.

The one thing missing: web. Esp. in places with restricted installs, having a web front end would be nice.

Windows issue: The installer assumes you want it on your c drive. grumble grumble.

Neat app...but where is the sqlite database located on a windows installation?

Is it possible to export a note? Are notes sharable?

I&#x27;ve used www.simplenote.com in the past.

I want to try notion.so, some friends use it at work with great success. But would prefer something like it but with a business model other than freemium SaaS.

Please change the name))) &quot;Jopa&quot; means ass in Russian... And, well...Joplin sounds like a resident of &quot;Ass&quot;-town

thank you. this is something i&#x27;ve wanted to make for a long time.<p>will look forward to helping contribute.

What about recurring to-dos?

why does android app have to access user location at time of installation.

Nice work

Good job, @laurent22!

Electron, no thnx.

I&#x27;m currently using Apple Notes on my Mac and iPhone. It works just great!<p><pre><code> It synchronises perfectly I can drag and drop images to it, no problem. Cmd + C, Cmd + V, Cmd + B, Cmd + I all work as expected. I can even add to-do lists and cross out &quot;Done&quot; I think it even supports tables, But I don&#x27;t use them. Export as PDF, html, airdrop, email whatever, works easily </code></pre> What doesn&#x27;t work:<p><pre><code> If I ever get out of Apple ecosystem, it won&#x27;t work. Apple has my data, and I need to trust them. </code></pre> Give me something with the same ease of use, and make it self-hostable without pain. I&#x27;d be happy to pay. I don&#x27;t need Markdown or anything else. Text + Drag &amp; Drop images support are a must for me.

I refuse to install any more Electron apps on my desktop.