mysterious_hat

Came here for this comment. Thought the exact same thing as soon as I saw this.

“Secret” hiring process by the sound of it

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-get-hired-by-google-b1...

I've been using Joplin for the last 5 months. My primary use cases are:

1. Simple journaling with some preamble (e.g. location, mood, weather, etc) from iOS Shortcuts app followed by free text I enter into Joplin direct

2. Archiving website content using the Joplin Web Clipper (body copy and images) for offline reading

3. Tagging all of the above to help easily locate the information I need

For Item 1, it works pretty well. The only challenge I have faced is in relation to Item 2, that being Electron-based, the iOS app doesn't have good library support for "Open in" type share sheet actions. As a result, I have just resorted to making a to-do list with the URL and I process them manually when I have some time on my computer (with the full-blown Web Clipper tool).

Overall, the killer feature for me is the ability to sync between devices with E2E encryption and effectively self-host this (I'm using WebDAV on Fastmail with no obvious issues). Like anything there are gaps, but considering it's open source and a passion project for the devs (from what I gather), it far eclipses something like org-mode (which was initially my first choice), albeit for my specific needs.

They are also involved with the Google Summer of Code which should prove interesting. Hoping we get some good new features out of it.

I have also thought about trying Notion but haven't gotten around to it quite yet but it does pop up quite a bit in discussions around personal knowledge bases.