I made a serious effort starting late last year to switch to Joplin, but after much frustration I’m returning to, ugh, Evernote. Despite the wonderful advantages of Joplin, notably its enthusiastic developers and regular updates, I concluded that the Joplin isn’t quite where it needs to be to comple…

[image] sprague: I would prefer a YAML header for markdown This is not markdown standard. Others would call something like this "locking one in". [image] sprague: My markdown reader can handle YAML, and it’s easy to strip either way. This is rather subjective, isn't it? Most people wa…

I agree the way notes are stored now is hardly open and I find it inexcusable. It is a missed opportunity. Storage could be completely file system based with a single root folder and a human readable structure. This could be easy, with each note being one folder with resources, named after the note'…

I'm sorry, I think you mix up storage with something else. The way how data is stored has nothing to do with how it is exported. The storage of the data could be binary or whatever. As a user you are not supposed to use the data with anything other than the app. Or are you using a database engine a…

I would add that the way data is stored in Joplin is actually quite open since it's using SQLite. You can open this with any SQLite editor, run queries, easily extract data any way you want. There's no vendor locking. You probably can't say that about Evernote and other commercial note taking apps,…

You are missing the point. We are talking openness and independence. I would rather not depend on what Joplin has to offer in terms of portability, I would rather have my data be open by nature so I can back it up using my backup tool of choice and other software can easily import it for whatever pu…

If you want to backup an SQLite database it's trivial - I backup several every night, together with 2 MariaDB databases. As for a database needlessly complicating things - occasionally, yes, but not in this case. It's a very efficient way of storing, manipulating and indexing small files. It's also…

For me Joplin is the best taking notes app. I have used Evernote for years, but sometime is overcomplicated. On top of that, it doesn't have encryption, so there is no doubt. The only problem of joplin is that it doesn't support linux-32bit machines, so I had to move to Turtle. That was a sad decisi…

I understand the original authors dilemma: I too wish that tags would be embedded inside the markdown file. Perhaps an easier way to achieve it is to make a plugin for it that parses these kind of entries e.g. in the way Obsidian does it: tags: #supertag #tag #anothertag # Here is the first heade…

while it's not a parser (it will not process all your notes retroactively, yet), for future notes the "inline tags" plugin does exactly that. adopting the style you proposed above will add the corresponding Joplin tags to the note, while preserving them as plain text. [image] Plugi…

Why I'm leaving Joplin (for now)

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laurent 29 April 2021 19:10 10

Ok, there's so much wrong in what you write about that it's hard to know where to start. I guess it would help if you had a clue about what you're talking about.

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Why I'm leaving Joplin (for now)

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