I posted a thread a while back, Future of Joplin and a lot of great conversation happened there. Rather than posting more to that thread, I believe this deserves another. I wanted to start a conversation on how Joplin compares to other softwares. Not in the "this is better than that" sense, but mor…

[image] thwaller: I wonder what others here think? I am looking for a universal Markdown software to do all, in addition to the specialty ones, like Joplin. I think the thrust of your query doesn't line up with the thread title, "Joplin vs others". Joplin is a note taking app that uses a mar…

[image] jb261: I think the thrust of your query doesn't line up with the thread title. My question is more hypothetical. I am looking to see how people view Joplin and the alternative softwares, and how they can be used. I stated that poorly.

[image] thwaller: My question is more hypothetical. I am looking to see how people view Joplin and the alternative softwares, and how they can be used. I stated that poorly. You seem to think the alternatives to Joplin are a bunch of markdown editors. That's the confusing part. Joplin is not …

[image] thwaller: That said, I still use other Markdown softwares. On my system I have Typora, Mark Text, Ghostwriter, VNote, Obsidian, PanWriter, and of course Atom and VSCode. Any reason why you don't use the built-in editors? Personally I use the rich text editor and that's good enough for…

And I agree that the title is not great, sounds a bit adversarial, even though that's not what your post is about.

[image] laurent: Any reason why you don't use the built-in editors? Question wasn't directed to me, but I'll share my thoughts. For just quick notes, I'll use the markdown editor. For longer notes where I'll be writing more than a few sentences, I use Typora as the external editor. Why? Writi…

[image] jb261: I can't imagine there are many users who are using Joplin just to create markdown files that they could equally have created in Typora, Atom, etc. Last time I checked neither of these had mobile apps. For me this is the most important feature of Joplin. (Less so now that I'm st…

I amended the last statement to be more clear. My intent is to look at Joplin compared to others, which is better at what, etc.

I added a statistic, most users do use Joplin's default editor [image] What editor do you typically use when using Joplin? Lounge poll

I think Joplin could definitely use more functional theme support like some others, and it would be great if the support goes on the built-in rich text editor.

Joplin vs others

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rxliuli 1 March 2021 10:42 16

You can take a look at this vscode plugin:

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