#joplinapp — Public Fediverse posts

Pete, I know you didn't ask for advice about Joplin, so apologies for this unsolicited advice: configure the built-in backup plugin to auto-backup your notes every N hours/days, somewhere on your system drive. Better to have more than a single backup (the default value, I think, is seven).

After setting it up, test your configuration for accuracy of backup and for ability to import it back into Joplin.

Why do all this?
Given the vagaries of various operating systems on smartphones and desktop computers, and of the connectivity between devices, synchronization is a tricky business for any cross-device, cross-platform app. There may be race conditions, or the connection may abruptly fail, or the operating system may throttle or kill the synchronization for whatever reasons; so data loss can happen. If you have a backup copy, you can simply import the lost data, and get back to work.

Also, your backup plugin may create a backup after data loss happens, but before you register the loss. In such cases, having multiple backup copies allows you to use the best version to recover your data.

Remember also that Joplin itself retains note history (by default, for 90 days), so recovery of lost data should be possible within the app itself. But I do think setting up multi-copy auto-backup outside of the app's operating zone is still good practice.

Ignore if you have already done this. 😄

Like you, I use markdown to write notes in Joplin. And to write Fedi posts such as this one. (wafrn, the Fedi software I am using, supports writing posts in markdown.)

My only suggestion: do not get seduced by markdown's ease of use. Do not try to use it indiscriminately. Do not use it for documents that require complex markup (text with lots of subscripts/superscripts, mathematical equations, chemical formulae, nested sections, tables, columns, etc.), or even for simple but very long documents (long-form writing, books).

Basically, limit its use to short documents/notes that require very little markup.

This article is a good overview of the benefits and limitations of markdown.

As an aside, I hope djot replaces markdown as the most popular lightweight markup language in the near future.

Gave a second chance to @joplinapp, and I'm glad I did.

#joplin #joplinapp #joplinNotes #notetaking

Needless to say, forcing the sync is only an option if I am FULLY SURE I only created new notes on the other device, so getting this error again would be a big big problem. SO I would really like to get this working properly without hickups...

#Joplin #JoplinApp #JoplinNotes #Nextcloud

Dear Joplin users,

I set up Joplin a while ago to sync locally to the filesystem, i.e. a folder on my laptop. This folder is synced to a Nextcloud (i.e I am NOT using WebDAV to have Joplin talk directly to Nextcloud).

I set this up on two devices. On the first I created the directory and started the sync. On the second one I enabled the sync after the Nextcloud sync was finished. This worked back then, i.e. after creating a note on one device it showed up on the other after some time.

One of the laptops was off for some weeks and while the Nextcloud sync is properly finished and the actual files in the Joplin sync folder seem to be present, Joplin still did not show newer notes. Clicking on "Sync" multiple times did not help.

I forced a sync, overwriting the local files. All of the notes appeared after a restart. Nothing changed in Nextcloud.

Does anyone else have this issue? Any ideas how to avoid this? Or debug this in case it happens again?

#Joplin #JoplinApp #JoplinNotes #Nextcloud

Im Netz finden sich ganz unterschiedliche Meinungen zu #Obsidian im Vergleich zur #JoplinApp. Persönlich schätze ich es zwar sehr, wenn man alles individuell anpassen kann – aber ganz ehrlich: Ich will meine Zeit nicht mit endlosem Feintuning verbringen, sondern das Tool einfach nutzen. Wie seht ihr das?

#Notizen #Notiz #Erinnerungen #Schreiben #Todo #Notes #Produktivitatsparadoxon

Hier eine Auswahl der Meinungen:

https://futurezone.at/produkte/obsidian-joplin-evernote-alternative-konkurrent-notiz-app-test/403033254

und

https://nachbelichtet.com/obsidian-joplin-und-das-produktivitaets-paradoxon

"Bidirektionale Links in der Joplin App"
in #NureinBlog

https://nureinblog.at/60142-bidirektionale-links-in-der-joplin-app/

#JoplinApp

Ich synchronisiere meine Joplin-App über WebDAV mit meinem E-Mail-Anbieter und war überrascht, als die Synchronisation plötzlich nicht mehr funktionierte. Offenbar habe ich das Dateilimit erreicht – etwas, das mir bis dahin nicht bewusst war.

#JoplinApp #MailDe #WebDAV #Synchonisation

How well does @joplinapp 's Joplin Cloud sync work on mobile devices (iOS in my case)?

It wasn't great when syncing against OneDrive when I used it last, but I've been thinking about it again, since my @obsidian data gets sync'd to a US cloud, and I've been looking into moving everything out of US control for some reason. Not sure where Obsidian-the-company is based (U of Waterloo alumni though!).

#joplin #joplincloud #joplinapp #obsidianmd #obsidian

@paulasimoes I've been using @joplinapp with end-to-end encryption, and has an absolute pleasure to use it. I can't recommend it enough. A huge thank you to all contributors! 🙏

#ilovefs #joplinapp #joplinnotes #FreeSoftware #e2ee #privacy

🚀 Day 2 at Open Source Experience!

This is your chance to discover Joplin and the whole French open source ecosystem!.
From innovative solutions to passionate communities, come be part of it!

Thanks again to La MOUETTE for welcoming us to their stand 💙
👉 lamouette.org

#OpenSourceExperience #JoplinApp #OpenSource

🚀 Day 1 at Open Source Experience!

We're excited to meet you all and talk about Joplin, come and discover the application and its ecosystem, or give us your feedback

Big thanks to La MOUETTE for hosting us at their stand 💙
👉 lamouette.org

#OpenSourceExperience #JoplinApp #OpenSource

Featuring preview note list plugin!

Jack Gruber has just started working on an impressive plugin to improve the note list. It can include additional information such as the date, and a summary of the note, as well as a thumbnail. More info on the forum thread!

#Joplin #JoplinNotes #JoplinApp

https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/note-list-preview-plugin/34719/1

@joplinapp

#katEx is awesome but kind of a steep learning curve, anyway love using it for math equations using #joplinapp https://katex.org/docs/supported.html#fractions-and-binomials

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions on #foss alternatives to #googleKeep I decided to test #standardNotes #joplinapp #turtl #carnet and #nextcloudnotes after some consideration I went for nextcloud notes.