Joplin Is An Open Source Alternative To Evernote 

I don't know if I'd ever need this particular program, Derek. But your series of videos introducing FOSS apps is a real service to Linux users. Thanks!

Using it for more than a year now. A great open-source alternative to Evernote, I can add images to my notes etc...And on my Android phone, Macbook, Manjaro, Nextcloud: great!

how did i not know about this application? its 100% perfect for my needs! thanks for pointing this out!

For anyone wondering, you can connect it to your Synology NAS, Encrypted, and have nightly back ups. You can also have multiple instances in different folders on the same drive in case you prefer to have one Joplin app for work and one for personal.

BRO! Thank you a thousand times for this discovery ! A web-scraping dream come true ! Best Web-Clipper I ever used. It gets everything and even gives options how to save. Also, the notes, sync, and cli options solve problems I did not expect here ! Like, four things in one. Great channel, I like listening to you.

Joplin is a very much underrated, but very capable note taking app. If you need your notes to be accessible on more than just one device, then this is a good option.

I used to love Evernote but ha frustrations with there being no Linux version. I've switched to Joplin a year ago and haven't missed Evernote, I was able to export from Evernote and import to Joplin which worked great! I had over 1000 recipes and this has been fantastic!

Wow just awesome, this will be a perfect replacement for all my Google Keep notes. Thanks a bunch for showing us! Desktop, android and terminal with syncing, what more I can ask for.

Personally, I use Joplin to write many notes and assignment. It is indeed very useful especially to write markdown and preview it on the right side. That features to export markdown straight to PDF is a saving grace without using any word processing application

I've moved from Evernote to Joplin and the process was pretty straightforward. I also sync between multiple machines (a Mac and a Windows PC) using Joplin's sync service and it all works pretty seamlessly. Overall I'm pretty happy with the whole experience.

Now Joplin supports WYSISYG, in other words you no longer need to have two separate windows to write the text, you can write in the same window. Install the latest version, go to View > Layout Button... > WYSIWYG and then press CTRL L to toggle between spli view and the single view

I was just looking for that! I did change to Linux Mint from Windows 10 and I use a pen tablet a lot to write while studying. The problem is that I use One Note every day and it does not talk with Linux very well. Thanks man.

Thanks for the great video. Loved it. You can also check the boxes in the rendered view and they will be marked in the source text. When you search for notes, you can see under the title where these notes are actually located (in which folder) and you can click on that to expand the folder structure (in case it's in a nested/collapsed folder) and select the note. In the teminal you can type `:help config` and you will get all the information on what the keys mean. The sync stuff should not be shown in the terminal app. I fixed that a while back and is available in the latest cli package: `npm install -g joplin`. We do not provide an AUR package. The pkg maintainer obviously packaged the cli and desktop app in one package, which can be a problem, when the cli app is updated but the desktop app is not.

Recently I found out that OneNote saves all notes unencrypted by default (on Microsoft servers) because of "indexing and functionality". This freaked me out. Joplin might be a life-saver here

After using note taking apps alike I found out it works best to edit notes only on the web, that way you don't create conflicts even you are editing notes in multiple computers at the same time when you use a note taking app that synchronizes with the server and you edit the same note in 1 computer and than edit it again on the other, the server doesn't know which one is the latest version when you edit the note on the server itself that issue doesn't happen because the server knows exactly what order you changed things and no conflicts will happen this way

Perfect. Ditched Onenote & Microsoft Windows about a week ago. Thanks, just what I needed.

I'm currently trying to build this in a Flatpak, very nice application !

I made the switch from evernote to Joplin. This videa was a great help, especially in switching to the terminal application.

Thanks a lot for sharing info about this tool, Derek! Strangely, I didn't find it while googling that kind of software. After some testing, I found it suits me quite well, in particular with great Markdown support. Other similar products like Boostnote, Simplenote, even Evernote :) were unsatisfying.

two things I don't like, one of them is kinda deal breaker: 1. no nesting for TODO list. Still manageable by manually typing list of items then strike out whenever I'm done 2. No multiple user profiles. I need one profile for private usage and one for my work. For how good the rest of this app is, this particular issue seems to be one hell of an oversight. If different notebooks store in different folder, I can at least sync specific folders to specific computers (I'm using file system sync option, then use Syncthing as my syncing solution. Seems alright so far). It came so close to be what I need but alas...

Nice! I’m going to check this out. Evernote was one thing I was worried about in migrating to Linux. I have a lot of stuff in there, but I don’t use most of the Evernote features, so this sounds perfect.

wow man, the way you've configured your system, it's amazing, I'm already a month into Linux/GNU, thanks to you. Now whenever i use mint(i have both windows and linux mint), I don't want to go back to windows. I have to use windows sometimes because of my school work

The sync output is a bug because some debug commands were left in accidentally. It got discussed on their forum and a commit was published to comment those out. It's available on github and in the npm package. But since they don't maintain the aur package themselves it is currently not there. Which is why I flagged the package as out of date

Best thing about these is code lines and ability to write code. I love these.

Wanted to give it a go a few days ago on my buster setup however I believe it required an additional framework to run the binary and I couldn’t be bothered. I ended up using nixnote which is a wrapper to Evernote. Works fine for my needs.

I am extremely thankful for the service that you are providing us with, all for free.

Oh, nice. I just started using joplin like a week ago

looks good, but sadly its an electron-app. these apps are slow ressource-hogs. electron runs a whole outdated chromium browser instance to run one app.

man every app you mention is top notch keep these hidden gems coming

Looks great and promising. It's a good replacement for SimpleNote, Google Keep and others, that's for sure, but still, it's far from beating OneNote. I really wish we had an Open Source and powerful app like OneNote on every platform. Using OneNote is like opening a physical notebook and start taking any kind of note you want/need. Type something with your keyboard, draw with your pen (stylus), use math with your pen. Add a spreadsheet, a To-do list in your notes. Want a video there? No problem, you can put the link in the note, or simply put the video itself inside the note. The only one I know it works well almost like OneNote is Evernote, but still not an official Linux version, not Open Source and it is expensive.

I've been an Evernote premium user for years and am recently using Linux more. I tried Nix Note, which is... Ok but not perfect. I'm frustrated that after all these years Evernote still hasn't released a Linux native app. Joplin looks very promising. I'm definitely going to give it a shot. The Evernote import is essential for me, I have 10 years of notes!

Hi!! There is a new Linux native GTK open-source note-taking app called TECHNENOTES (which I am actively developing). Although there are multiple amazing note-taking apps out there, I do think that TechneNotes has some strong points: the database-like interface (with pagination, ordering, filtering, all combined with a treeview structure), the safety of local data storage with optional cloud sync (users choose if and how to sync data over the cloud), multi-tabs support with full-width note view, integration of text/files/images/videos/code, interconnected notes, standard markdown syntax (for cross-compatibility), and - most of all - its native (Gtk) and open source nature (thus ensuring that your notes will be fully accessible in the future, with no risk of vendor lock-in)

Thanks I couldn't figure out why it was not syncing, your video gave me the solution.

I was just searching for a good app and came across this video. Thanks for the recommendation. Seems pretty solid.

Very informative, thx, didnt know about the terminal app

Similar to Vimwiki with markdown and pandoc but in one package. Looks nice.

I use it to take notes on my data analysis. It does all I want.

DT showing a GUI application, woah a rare site

Zim is WYSIWYG and can structure notes as a tree. Unlimited nesting. Evernote and Joplin are only few levels. I find tree structure a killer feature. Edit: Apparently, Joplin can do trees ("nested notebooks") as well now. I didn't know that.

I like Joplin. Make sure to check out "Notebooks," especially if you are an iOS/Mac user. It has WebDAV/NextCloud sync as well, but it's not FOSS.

I don't any other alternative of a notebook program running in the terminal, but to me this is brilliant! Instead of opening vim, finding the right directory etc, I just do joplin now! Thanks! Also, reworking the keymap.json reeally makes the difference to me! Vim moveset eeverywhere :))

Greate Video DT! Not sure I would use the CLI but I certainly would use the GUI for my version of Ubuntu. I am using the web version of Microsoft OneNote since Microsoft doesn't make a native app for Linux at the moment but I just recently ran into a file size attachment limitation while uploading a document into a notebook which really turned me off; especially since I love OneNote and depend on it for all my Notebooks, Journals and documents. Is there a file size attachment limitation in Joplin? I'd be interested in giving this a try if I have more control over what I can upload into the notebooks.

Am I crazy for thinking markdown files in vim with grep and a file drawer is good enough? I guess since my notes are all text and links that makes a difference. edit: Joplin doesn't do inline images any better than vim+markdown previewer I think. Its only features that I don't have immediate simple analogies in vim for are setting an alarm for todos and showing tags in the sidebar along with notebooks. Still it has good notetaking functionality all in one place with no setup, which is nice.

YA electron app. One day we will all cry a river.

Finally, a FOSS replacement for OneNote. The last remaining dependency I have with 0365.

I just dropped Evernot after many years. I tried to sync the win/android/web but nope! Only two on the free tier. DOH! So what are the alternatives? I'm having a coffee break after getting Joplin up and running. Looks gooooood! 😎 Now this video makes Joplin look even better

I havn't heard a voice as warm and soothing since Casey Miller read the south park news. You need to apply for a news reading position on CNN.

Thanx for information. This will replace my Evernote and even Bearapp. Sync works nicely with DropBox (Tested already with Windows, Mac and iPhone) . And even export to .PDF works with GitHub md files. Then I can print those md-files and all code is really on the paper. No more printing with lines with dropped line endings etc. RESPECT!

I don't even remember how many note-taking apps I have used trying to replace OneNote. Joplin in the best. Better that OneNote, better than Evernote. Plus it is open-source.

This was very helpful as I was looking for an Open Source alternative to One Note. Also since you mentioned your "android phone" , what do you use on your phone? Do you also try to only run Open Source software on your phone? Thank you :)

Cool I might give it a shot but I love cherrytree.

I've been a happy Zim user for a long time (since back when it was written in Perl). Joplin is very cool, but for my use case (desktop wiki), Zim just happens to be a better fit. I never managed to get Org mode to work the way I wanted it, but then again, I'm not smart enough to use Emacs, I'm just a simple vi user (used to be Elvis, now Vim).

Love Joplin, been using it 2 weeks now! Biggest complaint though is the lack of spell-checker.

It has both GUI and terminal interface? Oh my god.

Joplin with typora as it's external text editor is just perfect

Always wondering. We're living in the year 2020. Still, a common notebook with pen and paper (combined with a mobile phone) can't be beaten by any software if it comes to efficiency. Can't wait for AI to kick in.

Trilium Notes. From the github repo: -Notes can be arranged into arbitrarily deep tree. Single note can be placed into multiple places in the tree (see cloning) -Rich WYSIWYG note editing including e.g. tables and images with markdown autoformat -Support for editing notes with source code, including syntax highlighting -Fast and easy navigation between notes, full text search and note hoisting -Seamless note versioning -Note attributes can be used for note organization, querying and advanced scripting -Synchronization with self-hosted sync server -Strong note encryption with per-note granularity -Relation maps and link maps for visualizing notes and their relations -Scripting - see Advanced showcases -Scales well in both usability and performance upwards of 100 000 notes -Touch optimized mobile frontend for smartphones and tablets -Night theme -Evernote and Markdown import & export -Web Clipper for easy saving of web content

Great stuff! Thanks for this, I'm going to start using this.

Syncing with MEGA works as well.

I like how you say "Man page"

Straightforward and to the points as usual, thanks mate.

Hey DT...great vid. I really like this app...gonna try it out. Thanks for the Heads-Up about Joplin

Hey dt I was wondering if you still use joplin. I've just stumbled across it and think it's amazing. I will be using it for note taking in my homelab, Thanks for your review on it Keep up the great work 👍

Gonna have to give it a try, though I am not too happy about using a third party service for syncing. What would make this app perfect would be the ability to sync when all devices are on the same WiFi network.

Man page? Explain please. I discovered I could nest notebooks inside of notebooks so I'm staying with this. Being open source is awesome. 😁😁

I'd want to switch to Joplin, but Evernote's webclipper is superior and Joplin doesn't have OCR, which I', relying on a lot (receipts, bills, etc). Also, Evernote has Scannable, which is highly convenient as I can scan and save to Evernote straight away and it will also be OCR'd... So yeah, for my purposes, I still have to stick with EN :-(

Excellent! This looks just the thing.

Joplin might be a very good option but still laks website funcionality so you can edit/view your notes anywhere without having to install any software, thats the only reason i ditched it. Btw, theres a work in progress in this regard.

Joplin seems awesome, unless you are in the posssion of quite a few MD documents in a pre existing folder hieracym with images and stuff - I really do not have the strength to import these. I wish I had known of Joplin a few years back.

Joplin is awesome! Elephant is another option.

Thanks very much for this video. This was exactly what i was looking for ;-)

I suggest also trying Cryptee and Standard Notes

Thank you for this content. Made my life easier.

This is really cool. Thank you, Derek.

I disliked Google Keep and switched to Standard Notes, but the dark theme was locked behind a paywall. Switched to Joplin, which is just a better Standard Notes, with free dark theme and more options. I don't really like the Markdown editor (especially since it doesn't let you change it), but after using it for 2 months I've come to enjoy it.

Nice. Been using a while. Found via an alternative to search. Question. Had any issues if change sync location? Eg Dropbox to NextCloud?

Great video, DT. But I've got to have version control for everything. Can you keep the notes in a git repository?

The only downside is that it doesn't support drawing with Apple Pencil (or any other stylus I believe). Sure, handwriting notes and have it convert to text is nice, but not when this feature doesn't support your language and it automatically converts words to English despite perfectly writing other words. That aside, the app seems pretty good!

Awesome, thanks a bunch! 👍

Can one use graphic tablets to write on it? In one note, handwritten notes can be made by using a graphic tablet ( Like XP Pen Deco Fun S or any Wacom graphic pad)

Joplin is awesome! Best alternative for evernote.

Have you ever used Confluence? I'm pretty sure it's not open source but it has a free tier for cloud and for hosting it's only like a one time payment of $10. Allows multiple tags, etc.

Opening a note in a GUI text editor from terminal doesn't make sense you say. emacs -nw (no window, thus terminal) Other than that, you can have (server-start) in your emacs config, and then set everything to open in emacsclient.

Please how to create a template in joplin with a unique automaticaly ID? Tks

This is terrific. A great review and great app. How can we sync so all our data on different devices are the same when we login.

Apparently named for Scott, not Janis. :)

Thank you. VERY helpful

True. And it's not bound to any platform.

It is packaged in the AUR, but it is unfortunately flagged as out of date. Something to keep in mind.

Nice video, and looks great for 70-80% of what I use Evernote for, but not really a replacement. I use a TON of attachments (all of my owner's manuals, lots of spreadsheets and PDFs of stuff I've generated), and unless I'm wrong I'm not seeing a way to include these natively (I get that I could add them to the NextCloud folder and drop an anchor tag, but that's web editing not note-taking). I also really like they fact that Evernote can not only search inside the attachments, but can read text in images I take, so if I snap a bottle of wine, or a name tag at a conference, I can search by the text in the image. So, I might fire up an instance of Joplin at some point, but I don't see it replacing Evernote for me.

So, basically, here is my idea for a drinking game: take a shot every time DT says "Joplin".

I tried joplin and several other note taking apps until i finally settled with trilium. Great video though.

Does it offer to encrypt some notes? The Mac note has that feature and I just installed Joplin today and could not find thhe feature to encrypt notes.

It would be nice if Joplin supported ARM processors.

Man this is so sick! I love it

Finally the perfect app! looks nice in my linux machine both CLI and GUI and the Android app is gorgeous. I'm being writing a lot and always wanted a nice app to use in all my devices! Open Source software made it again! Switching to Linux was my best decision.

Strikingly similar to "boostnote" on windows, how do they compare? Does Joplin have an extended markdown Syntax?

What about Org-mode?

Thought I'd give it a try, just ONE BIG problem. - Where is the handwriting/stylus support? Evernote has it. Notability has it. Even blasted Microsoft OneNote has it. This is just very odd that this alternative doesn't have it. It's the only reason why many people actually get note taking apps. I know this is free and open source and donatable, which is a godsend, but it's just really odd that there is no support for note taking via stylus handwriting.

It is fine, but please try turtl out. You will not regret it.