Joplin Is An Open Source Alternative To Evernote

Are you looking for a free and open source note taking and todo application? Do you need it to be cross-platform on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS? Do you need it to sync to Dropbox, OneDrive and/or Nextcloud? Look no further than Joplin!

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[andrewpalm]

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!

[HexDSL]

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

[jumpman]

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.

[cornjulio]

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.

[IamBrianDickson]

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.

[Karla_Finch-Cluff]

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!

[mkallin]

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.

[StraussBR]

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

[luqmanhamdan]

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

[adam]

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.

[viniciocoelho]

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.

[HelmutTessarek]

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.

[carlosmanuel]

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

[AtomToast]

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

[JoeJulien]

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

[arnev]

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

[firen]

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...

[FunkCakes]

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.

[adamberns]

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

[lawixd]

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