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Jacob Herrington (he/him)
Jacob Herrington (he/him)

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A FOSS Note Taking App... with Synchronization Capabilities (Joplin)

Joplin is a FOSS note taking app. I use the terminal functionalities almost exclusively, but there is a great GUI.

It's cross-platform and can sync 👀

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Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

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Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format.

Notes exported from Evernote can be imported into Joplin, including the formatted content (which is converted to Markdown), resources (images, attachments, etc.) and complete metadata (geolocation, updated time, created time, etc.). Plain Markdown files can also be imported.

Joplin is "offline first", which means you always have all your data on your phone or computer. This ensures that your notes are always accessible, whether you have an internet connection or not.

The notes can be securely synchronised using end-to-end encryption with various cloud services including Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive and Joplin Cloud.

Full text search is available on all platforms…

If you've got a note-taking app preference, share it below so that others can get more organized too!

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Ben Halpern

Wow, this really seems to have everything you'd want.

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Yeah. A lot of open source solutions in this space are lacking, but joplin seems to have it figured out.

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Mario DeLaPaz

Definitely checking this out!

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Elliot Derhay

May have to check this out now. Thanks!

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

No problem!

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Manda Putra

I got Orglzy. pretty neat

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Thanks for sharing. Seems like a good solution for Android!