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Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

61 mentions on Hacker News by 48 people: 7 stories, 54 comments · first 2017-11-30 · latest 2025-04-30

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  1. You likely ran into this issue, which is a bug with onedrive itself: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/11489#issuecommen... there will be a failsafe implemented for that issue in version 3.3 personally, I recommend using the s3…
    comment by bwat49 · 2025-04-30 · in Taking Notes with Joplin
  2. Have you tried setting up a Joplin Server? https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/tree/dev/packages/server
    comment by m-p-3 · 2025-04-22 · in Taking Notes with Joplin
  3. …This is the best help you'll get, pray it's adequately technical to expedite you to your purpose: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/readme/dev/spec... As I began with, I struggle to imagine anything that generates anywhere near…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-01-18 · in Why I Like Obsidian
  4. Joplin is a good open source option too, feels more like the original Evernote in terms of UI/UX https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/
  5. Joplin - https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/ I use it with end to end encryption enabled and Dropbox as the storage backend.
    comment by BA4gDY-cqjsEPWn · 2023-08-09 · in Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?
  6. From recent threads, the top contenders for self-hosted are: - https://github.com/laurent22/joplin - https://github.com/logseq/logseq - https://github.com/zadam/trilium There is also https://github.com/foambubble/foam mentioned, which I…
  7. Evernote > Export ENEX file. Joplin > Import ENEX file. https://github.com/laurent22/joplin
  8. …you still need to type :exit. * https://www.reddit.com/r/joplinapp/comments/ww4crz/vim_mode_... ** https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/236
  9. The only problem to me is that the "official" Joplin Server is proprietary: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/packages/server...
  10. …https://joplinapp.org/news/20220606-release-2-8/ Open issue for multiple instances ala Firefox: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/591
  11. …3. Affine: https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE 4. Joplin: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin 5. Dendron: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron (requires VSCode) As a programmer I liked Dendron the most but if you wan
  12. Try https://github.com/laurent22/joplin + cloud drive of your choice (I use One Drive). See my reply to your parent commenter.
  13. That's why I use https://github.com/laurent22/joplin It's markdown, open-source, free. With desktop and mobile support. Syncs notes to any cloud of your choice for free. (I use One Drive) Optionaly you can pay them to sync your data on…
  14. …in markdown. It doesn’t have version control but there was a request to add this some time ago https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/753
  15. https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/packages/server...
  16. Actually, there's an app that does that : Joplin from https://github.com/laurent22/joplin you can publicise the markdown text that you're writing in markdown. here's an example with my joplin server and with the desktop app running on…
    comment by mehdi_guiraud · 2022-11-11 · in We should have Markdown-rendered websites
  17. > Encryption: data isn't encrypted at rest. The author seems to be quite dismissive of the idea: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/289 Skimming the thread, the author does have a good point: this is something that should be…
    comment by TeMPOraL · 2022-11-09 · in Writing down what I do in Obsidian
  18. …Encryption: data isn't encrypted at rest. The author seems to be quite dismissive of the idea: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/289 But then it's advertised as "end-to-end encryption" but that only refers to data being encrypted…
    comment by rroot · 2022-11-09 · in Writing down what I do in Obsidian
  19. …why they chose not to go FOSS are pretty weak[2] imo, so I'm looking at using Joplin instead. [0] https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/ [1] https://syncthing.net/ [2] https://obsidian.rocks/why-isnt-obsidian-open-source/
    comment by laputan_machine · 2022-11-09 · in Writing down what I do in Obsidian
  20. That issue seems to have been fixed 4 years ago: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/commit/b07fe5cc348ab8c3d...
  21. another fun fact... https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/readme/spec/e2e...
  22. …and only found one [1] semi related issue from 2018. Is this the one you were referring to? [1] : https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/288
  23. Joplin has a web clipper addon at least https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/readme/clipper.... There's also an offline OCR plugin based on Tesseract https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-offline-ocr-extract...
  24. https://github.com/laurent22/joplin
  25. …| Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good (reproof.app) - https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345959 | the process of physically writing the notes, internalizing the informat
    comment by VMtest · 2022-05-01 · in I've used all the notebooks
  26. …This license was crowdfunded and anybody is free to reuse its text as a base template: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/packages/server... Also one thing you need to keep in mind, is that if you have such license you'll also…
  27. …is good to continue to see competition in this space - the innovation it drives is exciting. - [0] https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/ - [1] https://joplinapp.org/ - [2] https://obsidian.md/ - [3] https://logseq.com/ - [4]…
  28. This is a known issue which hopefully should be fixed soon: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/6074
  29. I can't see it. I also read the contributing file ( https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/CONTRIBUTING.md ) but I can't find it mentioned there either. You write that bug reports are "mostly worthless" to you so state that upfront?
    comment by bjourne · 2021-10-26 · in GitHub stale bot considered harmful
  30. …you then you should continue doing so. However , I noticed that in the read me for your project ( https://github.com/laurent22/joplin ) you are not explaining that this is how you handle bug reports. Perhaps as a courtesy to users you…
    comment by bjourne · 2021-10-26 · in GitHub stale bot considered harmful
  31. …the biggest app in this space to do it. Joplin did this a while back. BoostNote is working on it. https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/
  32. …are a react native expert, and can spare literally 30 min and wanna help feel free to take a look: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/pull/4506
  33. Joplin + Johnny Decimal https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/ https://johnnydecimal.com/ They go under 80-89: Inspiration & Notes > 81. Other Thinkers' Ideas Mentioned in Podcasts & Articles Title: {author or (podcast name & episode)} - {1…
  34. …to be kept up to date. However it's worth documenting at least the trickier parts of the app. [0] https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/tree/dev/readme/spec
    comment by laurent123456 · 2021-02-06 · in Architecture.md
  35. …test units at the moment, and learning how to best package and distribute a server using Docker. 0: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin
    comment by laurent123456 · 2021-01-14 · in Ask HN: What are you working on?
  36. …that the plug-in system will be powerful enough to add support for things like backlinks. [1]: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/3723
    comment by CalebJohn · 2020-09-17 · in Athens an open source Roam alternative
  37. Joplin, Evernote alternative is a good choice to contribute. https://github.com/laurent22/joplin
    comment by alexriabtsev · 2020-05-02 · in Ask HN: Any open-source projects need help?
  38. …and to get familiar with the code base. As of now there are 40 such issues, including 28 completed: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues?q=label%3A%22good...
  39. …repository, you could have your notes and be able to find them again in a nicely organized way. [0] https://github.com/laurent22/joplin
  40. …one. I'd expect whatever mistake was made to get to that point could be made in any other RDBMS. 0: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/805a5399b5288b4a282...
    comment by laurent123456 · 2019-12-01 · in Files Are Hard (2015)
  41. …close it, lose everything. Scrolling is a pain. Need to reach the end very fast? Forget it. https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/899
  42. …from the 1990s. The ones formatted with max 80-120 characters wide per line, black background, etc. https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/master/readme/clipp... I haven't tried this one yet. But the biggest problem with that approach is…
  43. …like the UI, also the iOS client was abandoned at that time * Standard Notes[7] * Inkdrop[8] 1 - https://github.com/laurent22/joplin 2 - http://happenapps.com/#quiver 3 - https://zim-wiki.org/ 4 - http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/r…
    comment by charlesdaniels · 2019-06-28 · in Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel
  44. …(I use it on iOS, I won't speak for the Android one), as well as a CLI (also haven't used it). 1 - https://github.com/laurent22/joplin
    comment by charlesdaniels · 2019-06-28 · in Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel
  45. …if so. Look at this open-source app to have an idea of what kind of project I am talking about : https://github.com/laurent22/joplin
  46. I've been using Joplin and been really happy with it for my purposes so far https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/
  47. …it as my daily driver, if not for these features. Really love your UI. I'm currently using Joplin < https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/>
  48. …notes locally. In no particular order, 1. QOwnNotes - https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes 2. Joplin - https://github.com/laurent22/joplin 3. Zim Desktop Wiki - https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-desktop-wiki Boostnote was pretty good as…
  49. …extension (for Firefox and Chrome) - It's FOSS, with a number of active contributors on GitHub ( https://github.com/laurent22/joplin ). A good bus factor and no more dependence on the whims of private organizations. - A command line…
  50. Evernote can export notes into ENEX XML document itself. I've used https://github.com/laurent22/joplin to import this ENEX file and access most of the features (formatting, images) but not other (i.e. password protected values)