affine-client VS Joplin

Our official client is still in the developing stage, one of our open sourced contributor has develop a client and would be updated in time: https://github.com/m1911star/affine-client

The official client is still in the developing stage, while one of our open-source contributor has develop one AFFine client, and the link is here: https://github.com/m1911star/affine-client We also prepare a local-storage guide: https://blog.affine.pro/posts/affine-local-user-guide-keep-your-data-in-your-hands And the docker link is here: https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE/pkgs/container/affine Any question please feel free to contact us~!

Thanks a lot! One of our open-source contributors just made Affine available on a macOS desktop, please check it out at: https://github.com/m1911star/affine-client AFFiNE will release a demo version available online around August 12th, so please focus on our Github updates ~ we also very welcome you to join our telegram channel(https://t.me/affineworkos) or discord channel( https://discord.gg/yz6tGVsf5p), and we will answer all of questions timely.

Many thanks to Lee(one of our open-source contributors) just made Affine available on a macOS desktop! If you want to have a peek at the current affine demo now, please check it out at: https://github.com/m1911star/affine-client

Hi, thanks for the follow of r/Affine! One of our open-source contributors just made Affine available on a macOS desktop, please check it out at: https://github.com/m1911star/affine-client AFFiNE will release a demo version available online around August 12th, so please focus on our Github updates ~

In either case, you can check AFFiNE’s official documentation to build it from the source. Explore more about it on its official website. Here is also a MacOS client for AFFiNE livedemo made with Tauri: https://github.com/m1911star/affine-client

this is a multi-platform client built by community users based on tarui, welcome to try:https://github.com/m1911star/affine-client

Plus, someone also packaged our demo up with Tauri to give desktop app support, you may check it here at: https://github.com/m1911star/affine-client

I've had great success with using Joplin for this, with Syncthing as a sync backend. Works well across OSes; I use it on Linux, macOS, Windows and Android.

https://joplinapp.org/

The tools to manipulate SQL aren't that bad, no.

But rather than having a self explanatory markdown & flat file, now I have to start learning about the schema & making specific tools (in my preferred language) for manipulating Joplin's schema.

Suddenly I'm digging through 20 different technic specs to decode what data is where, how it works, and what I can do to it. Want to edit history? This is the best help you'll get, pray it's adequately technical to expedite you to your purpose: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/readme/dev/spec...

As I began with, I struggle to imagine anything that generates anywhere near as much user agency as flat files and markdown. Having boring common data & systems lets me apply portable skills I already have, rather than having to skill up in some particular product's own ecosystem.

Joplin is a good open source option too, feels more like the original Evernote in terms of UI/UX https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/

Joplin, an open source, extendable, Markdown-based hierarchical note-taking app: https://joplinapp.org/

It lets you choose a synchronization backend, offers applications for every major desktop and mobile OS (also has a terminal version). You can create notebooks and subnotebooks to organize your notes. You can also add tags for better search experience. I created notebooks for specific domains (work-related, home improvement, etc.) and also keep a "temp" for quick notes and W.I.P. snippets.

Its only con that it uses Electron on desktop which causes relatively slow start of the application.

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