Re:Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base ...
by foolinaround on Monday July 12, 2021 @07:19AM
(#27809143)
> Joplin doesn’t save plain Markdown, you can‘t just edit/view your files with alternative editors easily
It saves files to Markdown, and on right click, you can 'external edit' with your favorite text editor, which you have configured ahead of time in the settings.
Re:Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base ...
by andix on Monday July 12, 2021 @07:34AM
(#27809231)
It works. But it’s not easy to use.
After finishing the edit, you need to press another button inside Joplin, to import the changes you made. Doesn’t work automatically.
You can only edit single files like that. If the file contains links to other notes, they are not resolvable.
It is not possible to just create some Md files and let Joplin index them and watch them for updates.
There is a hotfolder plug-in, but it only imports those files and then deletes them.
Some reasons:
- Joplin doesn’t save plain Markdown, you can‘t just edit/view your files with alternative editors easily
- Creating and organizing notes feels less smooth for me
- navigating between notes is not so easy
- you can’t write #tags inside your text and it just works
- plug-ins and configuration is stored inside the vault, if you sync the vault, you have all the plugins everywhere
What I liked better in Joplin:
- 2 Levels (or panels) of organizing notes, instead of just one tree view in obsidian. Like every email client or file manager does it (one panel with folder tree, another panel with all elements inside)
- possibility to custom order inside notebooks (but I didn’t work well)