Joplin Note App

This one’s worth bookmarking because it’s open source, multi-platform including mobile, extensible, and can be synchronized via multiple services.

Still haven’t decided if it’s my one true note-taking resource, or if there ever will be such a thing. I wish there was setting synchronization too, but maybe there’s a plugin for that.

General usage

• nodes can be notes or tasks, and you can toggle between them
• note format is slightly tweaked variant of Github-Flavored Markdown
• default split pane approach w/editor on one side, working preview on the other
• has a rich editor, but that’s not my style so I couldn’t tell you how well it works
• drag and drop to create subnotebooks
• note links are via UUID-style hashes, so they’ll persist when you move a linked note

Plugins

Check the master list of plugins. Check the forum for discussions and announcements.

Here’s what I’m using so far:

• Templates: daily journaling using a template and Create note from template
• inline tags: autocomplete existing tag links with #
• quick links: autocomplete note links with @@
• automatic backlinks: inserts list of links to notes that reference the current note
• convert text to new note: select, right click, bang. new note

My Posts

Joplin Terminal Basics

acquainting myself with the Joplin CLI

Journaling in Joplin With Raku

a series of posts on Journaling in Joplin from the command line with the #raku-lang programming language