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Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 6, 2018 at 04:05 PM
Ooh, now, I don’t agree with that. Well, I do agree, in that the editor is a totally basic text editor, without the hybrid Preview we’re all getting used to now thanks to Ulysses, Bear etc.
But Joplin’s editor supports the full GitHub syntax plus a bunch of other goodies (e.g. Math markup), and the dual-pane preview makes the lack of hybrid preview much less problematic. You can produce relatively sophisticated pages in Joplin (although it doesn’t support HTML syntax, which is a shame in my view).
However: no, it’s not in the least like BoostNote or Google when it comes to snippets. But it does have a pleasant combination of folders and tags.
washere wrote:
>>Joplin is mainly potential right now, it is very basic or more frankly
>has no editor features. It is not comparable to Quiver which is a proper
>editor, like comparing MS NotePad to MS Word. Quiver is in the same
>league as BoostNote.
Posted by Larry Kollar
Mar 11, 2018 at 09:35 PM
I was grumbling to myself, “I already have Atom set up as a Markdown editor and it works great, why would I need this?”
Then I saw the iOS (and Android) links. If you can pass files back and forth between your desktop and mobile devices, that’s a reason to grab this for sure.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 12, 2018 at 11:16 AM
I’m very pleased with Joplin – it works across my Android phone, iPad, a couple of Macs and a Windows portable. The synchronisation is very efficient (and tells you exactly what’s going on, which is more than most of them do). The tagging works well (although you can’t tag items in the mobile versions, for some reason), and it’s got folders. Finally, it uses the full range of GitHub Markdown syntax, meaning you can do tasks, tables and so on.
Very nice little app.
Posted by doablesoftware
Apr 6, 2018 at 07:03 PM
i think ‘Joplin’ is for a different uses, like it doesnt have a tree view
heard good things about ‘boost’ and it seems to be focused on code snippets
Joplin doesnt seem usable to me without a tree view, still testing it
Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 7, 2018 at 07:07 PM
Not quite sure what you mean here, doablesoftware: Joplin does have a folder view, plus a tags view. Okay, so the folder view is only a single level, but it’s still useful. And the tags view makes the app even more flexible. The desktop version keeps both views open all the time; no, they don’t stay open all the time in the mobile apps, but that’s just practical; it’s easy enough to open the left-hand navigation bar from the menu button at the top.
Sounds to me like you ought to take a good look at TextNut or MWeb (both on Mac/iOS); they’d certainly meet your needs. Others have suggested Write!, which is very powerful, and which I can thoroughly recommend from personal use - I have a lifetime subscription, in fact. You are, if I may say so, quick to dismiss apps that don’t meet your not entirely well-defined criteria. Another app that would broadly meet your criteria is Keep It, which, in response to a question you posed on another thread, is where I manage things like web pages (saved out as PDF files); I recently replaced Curiota with Keep It because the latter has a full multilayer folder tree, also supports “smart” folders (called bundles), and also has tags. Plus the search function is fast and effective (I’m not sure why you make such a distinction between “titles only” and “content only”; in my experience such differentiation is rarely useful, but if you want it, Keep It does it; it also allows you to search on comments, tags and source [i.e. web pages you saved out using Keep It]).
In fact, after reflecting on the various requirements you’ve mentioned in various threads, I’d suggest Keep It is probably one of the apps you ought to prioritise.
Cheers,
Bill
doablesoftware wrote:
i think ‘Joplin’ is for a different uses, like it doesnt have a tree
>view
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>heard good things about ‘boost’ and it seems to be focused on code
>snippets
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>Joplin doesnt seem usable to me without a tree view, still testing it