> If anyone has questions about how I use it or my workflow I'm happy to shill this app more, lol.

I've recently begun using Joplin and am still futzing my way around. Would love to hear about anyone else's workflow.

One question, not specific to Joplin, I always have with note-taking apps is what's the best way to organize content? Or do you not worry about that and simply use tags to create structure/relationships?

I use notebooks and nested notebooks heavily. I've found that a directory-style structure works well for me, especially because the integrated search is also good if I forget where I put something. I have never personally had success with tagging for organization, but maybe that's just me.

In no particular order, I recommend:

* WebDAV to sync your files, I just use some of my fastmail storage and draft off the $5 a month I already pay them

* Pasting screenshots from your clipboard into your markdown works automagically on desktop, drops the file with a generated name into the Joplin file structure. It elevates the tool quite a bit imo

* It is worth getting comfortable with some of the basic markdown annotations. Just knowing to use asterisks and underscores and whatever speeds you up a lot from having to go click the "bold" button or whatever.

* I really like editing with the preview pane open. It closes the loop for me, and is the best of both worlds where I get to just type the annotations at my normal typing speed, but also see the formatted output so I can make changes as I go.

As a Logseq user I'd say that your last sentence/question is correct. The graph that emerges from your page references forms the primary form of structure. If you want to be able to find X by searching for Y, either mention Y in X or tag X with Y. In addition, though, when you have a page foo/bar/baz, foo and foo/bar also become their own pages (not folders per se, although they'll show baz as a child) which does let you get a folder hierarchy if you need it (and every folder comes with an index.md, because it's a bona fide page). Especially useful for nested tags like #movie/comedy.

Vim keybindings are possible* with the exception of hitting :q to exit*. For that, you still need to type :exit.

* https://www.reddit.com/r/joplinapp/comments/ww4crz/vim_mode_...

** https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/236

Ah this is really helpful. Thanks!

> can't imagine using a closed source app for something as personal and important as my notes.

given that it's Markdown and local whatever you open it with at the end of the day doesn't matter much. That's the benefit of relying on a lightweight markup language, you're not locked in.

Joplin is great. But there is a huge gotcha if you start using it from iOS instrad of laptop client first -- you can never connect access phone notes from other device.

This was true last year, hopefully was fixed.

I think this is working fine now. I do have one current irritation, but understand that it is resolved by getting all the clients updated. (Just waiting on NixOS to update its version).

Basically, I enabled encryption, synced devices one at a time. I think my iOS client is a newer version than desktop, so I have a warning about the couple new entries that can't be decrypted (yet) on desktop.

I know I could go and figure out the update for my local install, but can wait a bit for the moment.