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

Re:Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desk... by Jedd on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:29AM (#15815206)

I'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's not ideal.)

As soon as we get Keybase FS on Android, this kind of tool becomes extremely interesting.

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Re:Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desk... by splike on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:35AM (#15815238)

I'm using Dynalist, which is definitely an improvement over Google Keep, but I'm starting to find it quite restricting that everything has to be in bullet point lists. What I really want is something thats between Dynalist with its Zooming mechanism, and Typora with its super nice markdown editor.

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Re:Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desk... by Jedd on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:55AM (#15815340)

I haven't heard of any of those! Forcing dot points for everything would be tiring. Clearly list-focused rather than note-focused, and that's okay. For tasks I use trello, and occasionally the separation between notes and tasks is a bit blurry. Ultimately long-term storage of knowledge is stored in my personal wiki, so the whole suite is not entirely seamless yet.

Typora looks like a lovely interface, but appears to be non-free, no support on mobile, not collaborative.

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Re:Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desk... by splike on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:59AM (#15815372)

I just wanted to point out Typora as a nice interface for a markdown editor, it's not really a note taking app.

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Re:Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desk... by idlewan on Thursday November 30, 2017 @03:36PM (#15819279)

How is a markdown editor not a note taking app? Sometimes leaving search and sync to the system/other programs (grep, dropbox, syncthing) is a valid approach.

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Re:Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desk... by strawcomb on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:49AM (#15815310)

I also use Keep and agree it's not ideal. Would be nice to easily export all the notes to file. Would be even nicer if could store and make changes to notes on local filesystem and have them sync to cloud, google drive style.

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Re:Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desk... by icebraining on Thursday November 30, 2017 @10:24AM (#15816408)

As a tip, Google Takeout lets you export the notes as HTML files. Not really useful for syncing or integration, but serves as backup, at least.

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Re:Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desk... by strawcomb on Friday December 01, 2017 @04:21AM (#15822833)

That is useful, thanks!

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Re:Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desk... by fxn on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:02AM (#15815383)

I have tried a bunch. Notion is super cool, but doesn't do tables at this moment (though they seem to be working on it). Some apps have one level of nesting only, which is not enough structure for my use case. By now I have settled on Dropbox Paper.

Also, having a WYSIWYG editor is cool, in raw Markdown links and images just do not look good for my taste (and tables, and more, compared to Dropbox Paper or Notion). The number of files for which they support syntax highlighting is small though. In particular Elixir is not in the list as of this writing.

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Re:Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desk... by smichel17 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:40AM (#15815585)

Imo, raw markdown links look a lot better when you use [this style]. It's marginally more effort to write, but reads better and is easier to edit.

[this style]: https://example.com

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