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Try Joplin: Your Open Source Evernote Alternative
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Do you take a lot of notes? If so, do you depend on an app to keep those notes organized and available?
If so, you’ve maybe been using Evernote as your go-to, but clearly that option has become far less attractive since it was acquired by Italy-based Bending Spoons a couple of years back. On top of that, Evernote’s attempt at a Linux port only lasted a short while — even then it was buggy — which has forced Linux users to work with the web-based version. I don’t know about you, but I do not need yet another tab open on my browser.
After searching for a new note-taking app, my journey took me to Joplin.
Joplin is an open-source cross-platform app (released under the AGPL and Joplin Server Personal Use licenses) that is available for Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS. It’s free, has a ton of features, a well-designed UI, and can sync with Joplin Cloud, Dropbox, or OneDrive, and other storage services.
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Three Small Plugins That Make Joplin Click - FOSS Force
In Jack Wallen’s column on the Joplin note-taking app that FOSS Force published about a week ago, he mentioned the app’s rich collection of plugins for expanding its features. They’re actually more valuable than might be evident at first — and could be what separates Joplin from other note-taking apps, including Evernote, which some consider to be the note taking app against which all others are measured.
I’ve been using Joplin for several years now, but until recently I didn’t use it much. Basically I used it to gather clipped URLs of items I found online that I wanted to hold to look at later. I wanted to use Joplin — I could see its potential — but it just didn’t fit my workflow. I even took a brief look at plugins, hoping to find the killer plugin that would turn Joplin into a must-have app, but I found the available plugins to be — to my mind — of limited scope that mainly only added minor tweaks.
It turns out, that’s the secret sauce. It’s like American football: sure you have to march the ball down a 100-yard field, but in the final analysis, it’s a game of inches. Using that analogy, most plugins only change what Joplin can do and how it does it by a matter of inches. Judiciously use just a few, however, and you find that first downs are suddenly easier to obtain.