[jl6]

Not quite the same thing as the article talks about, but I’ve been semi-regularly journaling and note-taking for many years using various systems, ranging from Microsoft Word, to plain text files, to Tap Log, to OneNote, to Day One, to homemade CLI apps. Some semi-structured data like the article describes, mostly unstructured text.

Earlier in the year I discovered Joplin and I’ve stuck with it, enjoying its balance of structure and unstructure. If it had the instant-data-entry-into-CSV feature of Tap Log it would be perfect, but nevertheless I decided having one journal / personal data repository was better than having several, and set about importing all my entries from my previous system. I now have many, many thousands of entries spanning over nearly 25 years, and I’m happy to report that Joplin is coping well.

[teekert]

I tried to like Joplin, but it keeps annoying me that the files are not just plain md files server side, it's just a big mess. For that reason I use (for my admittedly much more spare usage) the build-in md editor and files from NextCloud.

[jl6]

Joplin is just a SQLite database which is very easy to query.

[atomlib]

The name is a bit unfortunate for a few Slavic languages. Not as bad as Pidora, but still.

[Researcherry]

Curious to know what joplin means in those Slavic languages.

[rossvor]

It's a bit of a reach tbh. "jopa" (жопа) would be a crude way to say "ass". Then some schoolyard nicknames would sometimes have a suffix -lin or -in (-лин,-ин) as general creative addition to create nickname. Unless I'm clueless about of some slang usage, or grandparent refered to some other Slavic language (not russian), "Joplin" (жоплин) doesn't mean anything directly.

[severak_cz]

Czech here and no idea what it should be. Not even close to some profanity.

[heavenlyblue]

I am Russian and I have no idea what that Joplin is supposed to mean.

[kashura]

This is such a reach. Looking for something to be offended by.