Some Things I'd Like to See

I have done a quick search of some topics and see that some of my idea suggestions are requested separately. I am going to pool them together and hopefully remember everything I have come up with in the last two days.

I want to start out with saying it has been a while since I used the app because I lost some notes in the beginning. In other words they just seemed to disappear (no I did not delete them).

I had an acquaintance on a social platform tell me about obsidian. I was hesitant to use it due to my past experience of lost notes. Joplin was not the only note app I had this issue with.

Anyway I realized I still had it on my laptop and after using obsidian since the 8th of last month I wanted to see how they stood up in comparison to each other.

First I notice I could not find the notes anywhere on my hard drive. I did some searching and discovered they are stored in a database file in obsidian. I wonder about the purpose of this. Why can't they just be a normal .txt/.md file?

I then went in search of whether it had plug ins available. Good news. It does. This had me stoked, but then I when I tried to go back to the work space I only had edit and quite options which meant I had to close the application and re-open it. Can this be fixed?

I am also wondering how to access plugins I have installed. The only one I see is the calendar app. I actually installed two different ones to test them out but only see one. Are they conflicting with each other? And how do I access the other plugins? I do not see them in the menu.

Two more things I want to mention before I forget is I would LOVE to see Joplin have the ability to publish to a personal website instead of straight to github. Is this what the share notebook feature will be at some future time? I have also been trying to use emoji's and they do not seem to work. Is there more than one way to do them in markdown?

What about allowing for a custom installation location? Until I can get a backup drive or a server set up I would prefer to be to have it on a usb drive I can port from one machine to another.

I may have more suggestions but I think for now this is enough.

Welcome to the forum!

You can easily export all of your notes in Markdown format. Letting SQLite manage your notes has its pros and cons, but that doesn't hamper full Markdown portability.

There's a portable version you can put on a thumbdrive.