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by shum1 2309 days ago
First, a huge shoutout to @laurent22 who still tirelessly pushes out new code for the community.

I use Joplin everyday, I switched over about a year ago from a Dropbox-sync'd markdown files edited in Sublime.

I really like Joplin for a few things:

- Source files are in markdown, no vendor lock-in*

- It has the actual HTML rendering in the editor, and allows you to toggle easily

- Android version works quite well, even the syncing!

- Supports tags

- You can add links to different notes by right clicking on a note and selecting `Copy Markdown Link`

- Of the many open-source solutions I've tried, it's probably the only one that works out of the box with a nice mobile app! Kudos

It's not meant for

- To-do list: I tried putting my todo-list in here. It's a bit too free form for that, with no support for dates

A few things it does, which should be of note:

- *Note are not stored nested in the way they are presented on the left in the notebooks. Rather everything is a markdown file (including notebooks) with metadata stored at the top of the markdown file

- You could individually edit files and there is a 'watch' function to open up the note in another editor, it's not really possible for external editors to edit the whole notebook.