Share notes between Joplin CLI and GUI

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Hi,

I’m discovering Joplin and like the way it’s done. I think I’m going to adopt it for some of my daily routines.

I have a small question about sharing notes between CLI and GUI. I would like to use both of them on the same notes. I also plan to automate some notes creations using bash scripting.

I understand that these apps do not work on the same physical notes. They must sync on a common folder and duplicate them, so I end up with 3 copies of my notes on my HD. Am I right ? Is it possible to avoid that and configure them to share the same files ?

If it’s not possible, there is another thing that could be helpful : with this setup, I need to wait the sync, or force it manually, to get the changes made on one side to another. Is there a way to perform the sync more frequently ? (currently the faster is every 5 mins).

Thanks a lot by advance for your hints, and congrats again for your good piece of software.

Gilles.

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Hi
Just provide the profile path of the joplin-deskop version when you want to use the cli version

joplin --profile ~/.config/joplin-deskop

for example.

Avoid to launch the two in same time to not corrupt notes when syncing.

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I’d suggest documenting this useful option/usage/attention in the terminal documentation

BTW, is it possible to write a new terminal client that simply use the newly-released api of joplin, hence avoid the risk of concurrent operations on the sqlite? @ “Hacktoberfest”

Perhaps we could name the new client as joplin-cmd-client or joplin-cc to avoid name clashing with joplin-terminal.

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I foresee that in some (near?) future there will be a small, fast, standalone Joplin server and both cli and gui clients will communicate with it. When cli or gui autostarts the server, the difference between a standalone client and a server communicating client disappears.

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I think a Joplin server/client scenario would actually be great if it ever does happen. If Evernote were holding my data on their servers in the clouds somewhere, I guess it should be possible for me to have that data on the machine in my basement and my various devices just syncing with it.

I am no technical person so don’t have a clue how easy or difficult it would be or whether this suggestion should even be in this chat at all and not somewhere else.

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you can just use curl to add/remove/edit/get note like

curl -X GET http://127.0.0.1:41184/notes
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Basically that's the idea. The server-client mode could adapt to a wider range of complex environments. But there's one kink here. People usually have various requirements on the software - some enjoy the light-weighted while others prefer the not-so-lighted-weighted. So I'm wondering if one set of server layer could satisfy multiple sets of requirements.

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That's useful, but many people I know in my neighborhood are already struggling with the common shell commands, not to mention these complex api-commands in detail. The out-of-the-box style could have people suffer less, unless we have other intentions.