I have this exact setup myself now!! Joplin with Nextcloud has been FANTASTIC. I even exported all my YEARS of evernote notes and was able to easily import them in to joplin.
Your videos are awesome! You actually show the software in reasonable depth - while keeping focused on the actual piece in front. Many others tend to either being too shallow, or they talk way to much about unrelated stuff. Nice job - subscribed!
4:20 the whole application remains in the appimage. It's like a Docker container with a GUI. BUT, you don't have to leave it in your ~/Downloads folder. The standard is to create a ~/Applications folder. Thanks for the great review. You're the first person to clarify that Next Cloud syncing had been added.
Yes! I love this tool! I love that it supports encrypting the storage with a password. I use it in combination with Syncthing to have the notes on my desktop, laptop (both Linux) and Android phone, and backed up (with Syncthings versioning) on my server.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Me too. I only wished the editor had some more features like search and replace. I find myself sometimes copy/pasting everything in gedit to perform some basic changes and then pasting it back.
Open source is Awesome ... No doubt. But you are even more awesome. I am amazed at the effort you make to makes these videos for us. Appreciate your effort. Thank you.
Joplin got some interesting new features lately. One of them is the ability to configure multiple profiles (and thus multiple synchronization destinations) 😍
looks good.... I have a question, though.... Suppose you are on your desktop and you update or add new notes, then jump on the plane and start your laptop without internet access. Will the item you changed be in the laptop app? Or should you have started the app before you got on the plane and just close the app until you can start up the laptop again to see the notes?
For syncing to happen, you need the application to be able to pull the notes from your server. So, your laptop needs enough time for the note to be synced to the server, then for it to be pulled down. If you make a change from desktop, with the laptop in a disconnected state (off, hibernate, sleep, etc), then get on a plane with no internet, you'll not get the note you entered previously until the laptop reconnects.
Loved your review of Joplin. I'm new to that app. I'm a Windows person, but I'm planning on moving to Linux. I use OneNote day-in & day-out. Does Joplin allow screenshots being dropped into it? I use OneNote to keep track of my recipes, and as I improve the recipes, I make notes and pictures. Also, I screenshot recipes online that I want to try. Can you do screenshots easily in Linux and then put that into Joplin with something like a cut & paste? Also, maybe, make a video on that topic too, because not many people have Joplin videos. Thanks.
I just took a screenshot of your question using Flameshot (here's a linkto my video on that application as well ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--7afT2-TQQ4.html), selected copy from flameshot, and pasted it in. All worked just fine.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Okay, let me go look at it now. Just I live off of OneNote and use it non-stop. Your video even got a link & screenshot in my Linux Notebook.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Okay, I went to watch your video. Very impressive tutorial. Here are my comments from that page ... Wonderful video. I am surprised that it is better than my Windows tool, which is PicPac. So, you've just made my fear of moving to Linux a little bit less. Thank you for this video.
@@AwesomeOpenSource Do you have to first put the picture in a dir, then add it to Joplin -- like by File-Add? Or, can you just do a cntrl-paste right into Joplin after screenshot?
Let's say I have no resources for Self-Hosting NextCloud & don't want to use Dropbox & other proprietary cloud services Can we use SyncThing to Sync between devices without the need of Cloud services ???
I'm not sure where Joplin saves the notes, whether it's in a file / folder, or SQLite...so not sure if you could just use Syncthing to sync the file / folder directly like that. They may can help you on their forums though.
That would get pretty messy, ending up with a lot of duplicate notes. One thing you have to be careful of is that you allow the notes to sync up before you attempt to edit the same note on another device. A master database always ready to sync up your data is a must. If you worried about privacy you could run and link back to your own database at home. I really couldn't do my job without such an app. Old fashioned notebooks get lost, are not easily searchable and there's no provision in them to keep pictures like you can in Joplin.
If you are interested in pure note-taking, have you (sorry if you already have) tried Workflowy? I see Joplin as more than a note-taking app, and Workflowy is easier for me for pure note-taking. FYC
@@AwesomeOpenSource Workflowy has online mode AND installable apps for the OS's and devices that are popular, incl. Linux. Text notes only, no images, but links are OK. Syncing doesn't need any 3rd party (no need for Dropbox, Nextcloud, etc) Simple, and so pretty quick. FYI / FYC :)
@Major Gear When I look at the Joplin options, I see no sync option for using Git. Still haven't had a chance to get to workflowy yet, but intending to do it as well as Standard Notes.
@Major Gear yes that’s what I am using for my notes as well. I just set up Nextcloud last week. It even has its own Markdown editor in it when you edit a note in a Nextcloud folder. And I use Obsidian to view those same notes with the mind graph and more efficient bi directional links to see how my notes are connected.
Interesting. Thanks. I watched it at 1.25x speed. Qn. What is 'markdown'? HTML is HyperText Markup Language, but 'markdown'? Is this a USA thing like 'lucked out' meaning you were lucky, or 'check' meaning to tick, or 'I could care less' meaning you couldn't? On the content, ever since the first examples of Sidekick appeared, I've thought that real-world uses of programs better portrayed their value rather than a demonstration of a set of items from a list. "Suppose I had to....".
Markdown is just a different way to express how you want Rich text to be formatted. Lots of links out there on it. I like it, it's pretty simple once you get used to it.
@@AwesomeOpenSource - yes, I expect there are lots of links out there. I just thought you might be able to be quick & succinct - in explaining the apparent contradiction in mark-up versus mark-down. I won't be able to thank you this time.
@@ardwych4881 No worries, the best way I can summarize is HTML uses tags so for bold , where as markdown uses symbology, again for bold **your info**, where “your info” would be bold. One more example would give you header text level 2 in HTML, but in markdown you would do ## your text, where again “your text” would display in level 2 header text.
@@AwesomeOpenSource yes. Is that possible? Also, on a different topic ... It's possible on a docker 'machine' to have the containers starting on a certain order (after a reboot)? maybe another video idea :-).
It looks like it can. Here's a forum post about it where they will link you to more info. discourse.joplinapp.org/t/can-i-sync-my-files-with-syncthing-instead-of-dropbox-or-joplin-cloud/31102
@@AwesomeOpenSource I think I saw it before but Thanks man. You're awesome. But I have some problem, please help me. How can I select the directory of my Joplin notes folder in android? I think I need that to set up syncthing and to start syncing between my PC and android mobile. (Btw I have a potato PC)... The Joplin directory is hidden for non rooted devices. And I'm also confused about how I can set it up..
Undisclosed Music happy to take a look. Just to make sure I’m following, are you referring to Sandstorm productivity suite on Github? There are a lot of hits when I search Sandstorm.
You could but there is still a delay in syncing. I have mine set to every 5 minutes, but depending on how much changes it takes longer or shorter. Would say there is probably a better "live" collaboration platform out there for ntoes - I'll see what I can find.
No authentication around it, that I'm aware of, but anyone can see the information that you share the webdav url with. They just need to set it up on their Joplin.
Simple note is good. I never saw them create a desktop app though for offline use with built in sync capability when it reconnected, and it's not open source on the server side as far as I know.
