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  1. RE: mastodon.social/@joplinapp/116

    @joplinapp is an amazing #NoteTakingApp which I've been using for the past 1 and a half year already!

    After migrating out from #AppleNotes, I've tried other alternatives and, by far, Joplin was the best for me, for its simplicity yet feature rich.

    I use it for quick notes, but also to write long texts.

    It's easy to organize and search for your notes, and the tag system is very handy, specially to group scattered notes!

    I really recommend it to everyone!

    #NoteTaking #Notes #Apple #Joplin #iNotes #Writting

  2. #Productivity thought

    One of the things I would LOVE to see with #OmniFocus is the ability to create a linked note in something like #Obsidian or #AppleNotes.

    While OmniFocus does have a little bit of a notes area, my notes section tends to be super intense with links everywhere.

    It's Friday. I might look into doing this with OmniFocus automations or #KeyboardMaestro

    @OmniFocus
    @OmniGroup

  3. Evernote is forcing a decision on me

    As a creature of app habit, I’ve kept paying for Evernote even as the rates for my note-taking app of choice have increased considerably–mainly because the new management at that service has improved it tremendously. But now that Evernote’s corporate parent Bending Spoons has discontinued my $129.99/year Personal plan and presented me with a choice between a $99.99/year Starter plan that seems clearly inadequate and a $249.99/year Advanced plan that brings more than I need, I need to rethink that habit.

    That 92% rate increase itself requires reconsideration, but it’s not the only thing. There’s the odds of a company on a venture-capital-fueled spending spree that somehow incluces buying AOL will see fit to jack up the annual rate again; I also have to assess whether Evernote’s bosses might make it harder to take my data out of the app that I’ve used since 2010.

    But looking over such other note-taking app options as OneNote, Joplin, and Notion while comparing their features, I don’t see an obvious escape pod.

    These are my priorities in this indecision-making process, in rough order of descending importance:

    • Cross-platform support–macOS, Windows, Android, iOS–is not negotiable, which is why I didn’t mention Apple Notes above.
    • I need any other app to import my Evernote archives no less than one notebook at a time; that seems to rule out Microsoft’s OneNote, even though I pay for it as part of my Microsoft 365 subscription.
    • I need reliable synchronization, ideally the almost real-time sync that Evernote now does so well. That may be the thing I need to trade to shave all or part of $250 a year from my online-services budget.
    • Yearly cost below this year’s $129.99.
    • Offline support, because I know how well CES WiFi works.
    • Voice transcription for recording interviews, which I’ve come to rely on over the past year.
    • Text recognition from a photo of a business card, so I can look up the details of somebody I met without adding them to my contacts list.
    • Robust export options so I don’t get stuck in another company’s silo.
    • The option of encrypting at least some notes on an end-to-end basis.
    • A long-term focus from the app’s developers–why I don’t consider Google Keep, since Google introducing that a week after killiing Google Reader still leaves me with trust issues beyond my trying to reduce the number of single points of failure in my digital life.

    Looking over this and comparing it to the research I’ve done so far, I think this makes me look like a Joplin user. Unless the lag that open-source app cites–the most frequent sync interval it allows for the OneDrive cloud storage I already pay for is every five minutes–instead makes me look like somebody who should suck up the extra cost of Evernote, considering what a small fraction it is of my other operating costs

    I wish this choice were clearer. I also wish that I didn’t have to figure this out at the peak cognitive-load period of my year.

    #appleNotes #bendingSpoons #crossPlatform #digitalBudget #evernote #google #googleKeep #joplin #microsoft #noteTakingApps #notesApps #notion #onenote #vendorLockIn

  4. I feel like i need to explore the scripting abilities of #OmniOutliner . I think the the document interface feels dated, but I could use it as a framework for tracking my charges.

    I wish it had an interface more like #DraftsApp or #AppleNotes where I could access documents much more quickly.

    If I could use it to access an API, lots of my issues could be overlooked.

    @OmniGroup @OmniOutliner

  5. I've been looking for alternatives to 2 particular #macOS apps: #applemusic and #applenotes .
    For music, I think I've cracked it: #DeaDBeeF player. The macOS version is a nightly but it works perfectly, and lets me sort by album in year order within artist, with all kinds of customisation possible within a simple intuitive UI.
    For notes, I may have to return to #joplin which I'm not overly enthusiastic about, but at least it uses #markdown .

  6. Diese Woche geht's bei @ajfriesen und mir um HACS, dem Home Assistant Community Store. Was macht er? Wie nutzt man ihn? Und was gibt es zu beachten? Darüber hinaus reden wir über Notizen. Welche Apps gibt es? Was nutzen wir? Wie organisieren wir Notizen und wie halten wir sie synchron?

    Im Podcatcher eurer Wahl oder hier: podcast.smarthuette.de/episode

    Viel Spaß beim Hören!

    #homeassistant #hacs #notes #obsidian #logseq #anytype #markor #applenotes #affine

  7. Diese Woche geht's bei @ajfriesen und mir um HACS, dem Home Assistant Community Store. Was macht er? Wie nutzt man ihn? Und was gibt es zu beachten? Darüber hinaus reden wir über Notizen. Welche Apps gibt es? Was nutzen wir? Wie organisieren wir Notizen und wie halten wir sie synchron?

    Im Podcatcher eurer Wahl oder hier: podcast.smarthuette.de/episode

    Viel Spaß beim Hören!

    #homeassistant #hacs #notes #obsidian #logseq #anytype #markor #applenotes #affine

  8. Diese Woche geht's bei @ajfriesen und mir um HACS, dem Home Assistant Community Store. Was macht er? Wie nutzt man ihn? Und was gibt es zu beachten? Darüber hinaus reden wir über Notizen. Welche Apps gibt es? Was nutzen wir? Wie organisieren wir Notizen und wie halten wir sie synchron?

    Im Podcatcher eurer Wahl oder hier: podcast.smarthuette.de/episode

    Viel Spaß beim Hören!

  9. Diese Woche geht's bei @ajfriesen und mir um HACS, dem Home Assistant Community Store. Was macht er? Wie nutzt man ihn? Und was gibt es zu beachten? Darüber hinaus reden wir über Notizen. Welche Apps gibt es? Was nutzen wir? Wie organisieren wir Notizen und wie halten wir sie synchron?

    Im Podcatcher eurer Wahl oder hier: podcast.smarthuette.de/episode

    Viel Spaß beim Hören!

    #homeassistant #hacs #notes #obsidian #logseq #anytype #markor #applenotes #affine

  10. Wie behalte ich den Überblick im digitalen Arbeitsplatz? Welches ist das richtige Toolset? #Microsoft365 #Onenote #Obsidian #Notion #ToDo #Todoist #Outlook #Thunderbird #AppleNotes, #Nextcloud uvm.? Brauche ich einen #Feedreader? Und was ist eigenlich #RSS?

    Diese und noch viele Weitere Fragen beantworet das Modul 2 der #pke25 Lernreise zusammen mit Tools und Praxistipps. Mehr: cogneon.de/pke25

  11. 🎉 BREAKING NEWS: Apple Notes users can finally rejoice as they wait for the thrilling iOS 26 update to bring Markdown support—because who needs #innovation when you can have text formatting? 📱💤 Welcome to the future of note-taking, where Apple is sprinting valiantly to catch up with the 2010s. ⏳🙄
    macrumors.com/2025/06/04/apple #AppleNotes #iOS26 #MarkdownSupport #textFormatting #catchUp #HackerNews #ngated

  12. So, I figured out how to send notes from #DraftsApp to #AppleNotes when needed. I tried automating this, but the #markdown to #RichTextFormat does not speak #Bocce.

    The trick is to "Preview" the draft as HTML, then select all, copy paste.

    More steps than I'd like, but it works well enough.

    Works for Teams and Outlook too.

  13. An update to my original “How I Journal” post from last year using #AppleNotes, #DraftsApp, and #Shortcuts. I updated the screen shots and included my new Shortcut that adds photos and screenshots directly into my daily #Journal note.

    jarunmb.com/posts/how-i-journa

  14. FB13172586 (Append to Note Siri Shortcuts Action Disfigures Rich Text Input)

    This issue has been present since iOS/iPadOS 17 Developer Beta 1 and continues to be present as of the Release Candidate.

    #apple #applefeedback #ios #shortcuts #richtext #ios17 #ipados17 #automation #applenotes