[hardwaresofton]

That is really awesome, this kind of functionality would be a really awesome plugin to Joplin itself somehow.

> I also had an idea to make a site where you could take notes and have them be auto-published (like the above, but as a service), to create a community of random knowledge dumps. Think of a Wikipedia, but made of personal sites and not as rigorous, with a very "personal Web 1.0 website" feel, but talking to a few friends it didn't seem like they saw much point in it.

Alongside this idea, would you use a browser plugin that shares your bookmarks as a stream? Almost like a cross of the github "X starred Y" stream and Twitter (with none of the social-y features). I favorite a lot of things from day to day and would love to know what others are favoriting/finding as well.

Also, somewhat unrelated to that, would you pay for encrypted offsite joplin sync target/backups?

I'd love to make it possible to also share-from-joplin for single notes but that feature isn't there yet. The only way to make it happen otherwise would be synchronizing somewhere unencrypted (!) and then asking that somewhere to "publish" your notes. Unfortunately, since joplin doesn't have multiple "profiles" or any way to separate encryption keys or which notes are and aren't encrypted... it's hard to do that as well..

[StavrosK]

> this kind of functionality would be a really awesome plugin to Joplin itself somehow.

Agreed, I looked for a plugin but unfortunately found none.

> Alongside this idea, would you use a browser plugin that shares your bookmarks as a stream?

I don't really use bookmarks, whenever I come across an interesting page I put it in https://historio.us, but they're too few to make a stream out of...

> Also, somewhat unrelated to that, would you pay for encrypted offsite joplin sync target/backups?

I don't think so, I prefer doing my own hosting and NextCloud/WebDAV works quite well, so I wouldn't want yet another account to manage.

> Unfortunately, since joplin doesn't have multiple "profiles"

Yeah, I ran into this problem with my script as well, where I wanted some notes to be private. For those, I just created a notebook that has "private" in the name and put them all there, the script skips them. Tags might work as well.

[hardwaresofton]

> I don't really use bookmarks, whenever I come across an interesting page I put it in https://historio.us, but they're too few to make a stream out of...

Interesting! I'd never heard of historious, thanks for the link. I'm quite surprised that using that is easier than hitting Ctrl+D (in Firefox anyway), and doing the management there. I totally get it though.

> I don't think so, I prefer doing my own hosting and NextCloud/WebDAV works quite well, so I wouldn't want yet another account to manage.

Yep, I can see that, many who find their way to joplin are quite technologically independent and came to joplin precisely because of those reasons. I guess not many people would really want hosted WebDav when you can just hook up NextCloud/S3/OneDrive/etc.

> Yeah, I ran into this problem with my script as well, where I wanted some notes to be private. For those, I just created a notebook that has "private" in the name and put them all there, the script skips them. Tags might work as well.

Yeah -- tags would definitely be the way, but the problem is that I'd want someone to be able to publish an update from their phone (or at least from every platform possible), and be able to keep their encryption. Just spitballing, but imagine serving a sync/backup service that happens to also be able to spit out md-derived websites very very easily. Notion and it's ilk have features like that and people seem very excited about it. A notebook as a blogging platform also seems interesting/incredibly low friction. Could even be a podcasting platform if you attached audio to notes.

[StavrosK]

> I'm quite surprised that using that is easier than hitting Ctrl+D (in Firefox anyway), and doing the management there.

It's easier because I just hit a different shortcut and don't need to do any management at all afterwards, I can just search the content.

> I guess not many people would really want hosted WebDav when you can just hook up NextCloud/S3/OneDrive/etc.

Many people probably would, just not me :P

> A notebook as a blogging platform also seems interesting/incredibly low friction.

Yep, hence my idea of "notes as a site" in my first comment.

[hardwaresofton]

> It's easier because I just hit a different shortcut and don't need to do any management at all afterwards, I can just search the content.

Reasonable, I clicked around their demo and I think I can see the value there.

> Yep, hence my idea of "notes as a site" in my first comment.

yeah this sounded like it'd fit great with the other hosted webdav thing, thanks for talking through it a bit!

[StavrosK]

Oh I made historious myself, so it's a pretty good fit for me :P