Ah, I see, I’m holding it wrong.
I have my notes app open permanently. I can’t work without my various how-tos. I use spaces to compartmentalise my work. Different tasks, with different how-tos in different spaces. I simply open note in new window and spread them around the different spaces. With
Joplin I can only quickly access my how-tos in one space, so for one task.
The tabs plug-in doesn’t help at all — it’s just bookmarks for jumping between single notes in a single window a little easier.
An external editor does give different windows, but I can’t cmd-tab to the notes because each window is a separate instance of the editor so my task switcher is full of identical copies of the same app — picking one is simply pot-luck, pick the wrong one, and you jump spaces! You can’t even distinguish them by window title because the file names the external editor sees are some kind of hex uuid that are obviously meant for computers rather than humans.
All the focus in this conversation seems to be on writing notes, not using them. I write maybe one or two notes a week, but I read my notes all the time, copying and pasting terminal commands to get my work done.
I’ve paid Evernote for years as they made their app worse and worse and worse. I am happy to pay for an open source product instead — in fact, I have, I bought a year of Joplin Cloud (and not the cheap version). The problem is, I can’t get my work done efficiently anymore. It seems I need to pay more to get a worse experience, and I should apparently be happy about that.
My experience switching to Joplin has been terrible. If the community want to make a great app you should want to understand how your app has driven a frustrated Evernote user right back to Evernote against his will. This should be a learning opportunity.
Instead, the response is a defensive insistence than my use case is nuts, and I must be somehow stupid for not doing things just like you do.
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