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…

As a past Evernote "junkie" I can understand where this request from OP is coming from. In fact, I first switched to Joplin, then went back to Evernote once more (manually migrating the notes I had taken in Joplin during those weeks...). Only a few weeks later again did I decide that Evernote (10...…

That's a pretty rough way to answer, isn't it? What @sprague , MrObvious and @mamaat mean is pretty easy to understand if you take off your programmer glasses for a moment. They want a folder based solution. The advantage would be that you have a simple folder based structure of files that you can…

[image] rafo: Good examples are iA Writer or even Lightroom from Adobe I suppose Laurent chose what was easier to implement at the time. Not sure about iA Writer but Lightroom probably has dozens if not hundreds of people working on it full time so it's not fair to compare it with Joplin.

It is not easier. In fact, it's most likely the opposite. But Kudos to @laurent for everything else. Joplin is a great peace of software.

I don't know about these programs, but images in general can store any kind of metadata so it means it's easy to index them and map them to some extra metadata in a database Your solution with plain text files means you would have to store metadata in the file or at least an ID, which looks ugly an…

MultiMarkdown does all (minus revisions) of that. Hybrid means you could store things like revisions in a database linked to an ID in the metadata. It’s not ugly since you can hide all that if the user doesn’t want to juggle with it (you do something like this in your md files!) nor is it fragile. A…

How the metadata is stored in the file is not too important, but having an editable ID in the file and build the whole software around this is a receipt for disaster. You might say "well users shouldn't change it, their fault if they do" but often users don't know why something's not working, they j…

But the notes in Nextcloud are presented as files. What happens to them on Joplins end when you rename them in Nextcloud? You lose all tags? Both parties are right though. It's a trade off. Metadata in a database is fast. Metadata in note files is portable. I think where both parties might be misun…

Indeed in BoostNote they store the notes as JSON files with an ID as name, so not more editable than if it was in a database. That's a note: {"_id":"note:0Rxbbhzib","title":"dfqdsfqdsfds","content":"one line\ntwo line","tags":[],"folderPathname":"/aaaaaaaaa","data":{},"createdAt":"2021-05-07T12:12:…

Why I'm leaving Joplin (for now)

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See the first test data for Joplin: a bunch of folders with Markdown files inside. Been there done that

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Why I'm leaving Joplin (for now)

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