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Re:Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desk... by norswap on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:05AM (#15815395)
Simplicity, freedom to really migrate your data.

Sure, you theoretically can migrate your notes from, say OneNote to Evernote (and vice-versa), but doing so is a great experience in frankensteining. I'm not even very confident there isn't outright data loss in some places, and with a high volume of notes, it's not feasible to check manually. Even with no loss, lots of stuff look ugly and/or do not work anymore, even if there is an equivalent on the target platform.

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Re:Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desk... by beaconstudios on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:09AM (#15815411)
writing your notes in markdown is a bit ass-backwards though - it's great as a storage medium but having to manually reformat a markdown document because you're not live-editing the output is a needless pain. I'd much rather write using your usual rich text interface and have that export markdown for me.
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Re:Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desk... by wikibob on Thursday November 30, 2017 @09:15AM (#15815804)
There are some editors that live preview your markdown. It’s pretty nice.

Take a look at Bear on Mac & iOS, and DayOne (my favorite but lacking full markdown support). Also Dropbox paper is interesting and live previews markdown and has nice table support

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