One important feature missing from Joplin is the ability to share a note with someone else, or more generally to allow multiple users to collaborate on a set of notes or notebooks. Enabling this is quite complicated because currently Joplin is only a set of clients (for mobile, desktop and CLI) and …

I don’t have a concrete proposal. I had an occasion in which a friend and I wanted to collaborate on a set of notes for a particular task. We tried using a Google Docs Sheet (spreadsheet) on my Google Drive, and that worked really well. No installation necessary, and the functionality we needed w…

@leobard , adding support for multiple profiles would definitely handle certain use cases, for example you could have personal notes on one profile and work notes, shared with colleagues, on another profile. Since it’s indeed easier to support this than developing a new server, it’s relatively high p…

Alas, with regard to collaborative editing, I think it is possible to reuse existing tools, such as Live Share. Collaborative editing is a very complicated matter. I don't recommend Joplin to touch this. As for sharing, I think that as long as there is a static site generator, and then deploy some …

Hi @laurent Sharing a note: the user story you describe - “organize a day trip, share it”. It does not need the recipient to always have the latest version. The sender can send the update. The straightforward approach would be to pack the note into a HTML or PDF and send it over. The HTML embedding…

If I had 2 Joplin app (the blue one and a green one for instance) it will fit my needs. Ok maybe it’s not very efficient but it will allow me to share some notes with my family and keep others for me.

[image] cyr06: the blue one and a green one DevOps, eh? :wink:

My thoughts are like this: There’s a desktop client There’s an android/iOS client There’s a CLI client They all operate via SYNC functionality. So in order for collaboration to happen, or to have something like Evernote, all that’s missing is a web server which operates on the same SYNC function…

Does anyone here know https://convergence.io/ ? they even list some competing products [image] Choosing a realtime collaboration library There are a number of open source and commercial software libraries, frameworks and APIs out there to help you add realtime collaboration to your app.…

After reading all the comments I can see there are many options with their pros and cons and we just need to find the option which is suitable for most of the users, easy to develop and don’t restrict the further development of Joplin. We have the option to use NextCloud, Google Drive, or any such…

My two cents: Existing platforms like dropbox, nexcloud, … already offer lots of sharing-related features that users probably expect nowadays. Examples are sharing data publicly (easiest) sharing with password-protection sharing with selected users (who have credentials) time-limited sharing (this…

Any suggestions on what web technology could be used to add support for sharing notes?

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asoundmove 6 December 2021 12:23 45

I believe the easiest way to share notes would be to enable multiple profiles:

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Sharing notes or notebooks Features	67	24457	12 January 2023
Share notebooks and collaborate on them using Joplin Server 2.0 News	37	17768	29 March 2025
Joplin Web API for Nextcloud Apps	95	21008	17 January 2021
Collaboration Support Features	8	5186	20 January 2026
Joplin Server pre-release is now available Development	230	66207	4 September 2021

Any suggestions on what web technology could be used to add support for sharing notes?

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