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Qownnotes vs joplin11/4/2023 ![]() ![]() No note-taking software is perfect for everyone, and I realize that some of what I call a limitation may be thought by others to be a feature. Or - for now at least - I conclude that the extra effort isn’t yet worth the trouble. There are probably workarounds to these limitations, and of course I always have the option of writing my own extension or post-processor to make it fit my workflow. Instead of (path/to/photo), Joplin requires (:weirdlongsequenceofnumbersandletters)Īlthough Joplin lets you export to both markdown and html, metadata like tags and dates are missing, and the title is simply appended to the top without indication that it’s a title. Images and attachments, besides having those proprietary names, are specified with a non-standard Markdown code.Resources are kept in one giant folder, with inscrutable Joplin-generated IDs as names.Even the title is kept, not in the note itself, but in the Joplin database. Tags and other metadata are always separate from the note.Joplin, despite being mostly Markdown, betrays my Get Out of Dodge requirement: When switching to Joplin, it’s either all or nothing. Evernote (web) links can be read from Joplin, but not vice versa.Thanks to the large Evernote community, there are many excellent open-source tools to wrangle the Evernote ENEX format.Ironically, I’m finding that for my purposes Evernote does a better job at that than Joplin. You must be able to painlessly abandon ship at any time, leave the platform and take your notes elsewhere. Before I leave, I owe everyone a little explanation.īy far my biggest requirement for note-taking software is what I call “Get out of Dodge”. Despite the wonderful advantages of Joplin, notably its enthusiastic developers and regular updates, I concluded that the Joplin isn’t quite where it needs to be to completely replace my Evernote-based workflow. I made a serious effort starting late last year to switch to Joplin, but after much frustration I’m returning to, ugh, Evernote. ![]()
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