talk VS Joplin

i have no idea if its electron based but check this out → Nota - Pro notes app designed for local Markdown files.

I've started using it in combination with Nota, which I recently replaced Obsidian with. I use this for my collection of academic notes, which I prefer to keep local-first. Nota looks much nicer, and is much more suited to handling a large collection. Obsidian has far more features, but I don't need most of them anyway, and hopefully Nota will continue to evolve.

Our other product Nota is also free for users who can't afford it. One of our goals is to make it free for those who can't afford it. However, we also should pay our bills. I can promise you that if we earn enough from a product we will make it more and more affordable for users — we don't aim for big earnings.

We've been building macOS apps for the past 8 years. Our main app is Nota.

Nota (Mac, iOS) (beta)

main-thread-scheduling is a 3kb library that can make your app responsive and fast in just a single line of code. Nota uses it for its super fast search and Flux.ai uses it for their advanced 3D circuits editor. Also, it doesn't have any competition. Usage:

I'm the founder of a beautiful Markdown editor. Actually two:

Nota - https://nota.md. It's a notes app but a lot of our users use it as a markdown editor. Nota is quite powerful as a markdown editor. It has a lot of smartness built into it.

Caret - https://caret.io. We started with this - a beautiful Markdown editor. We aren't implementing new features for it but if you are on Windows or Linux it might be worth trying out. We still have new users coming in.

A common feature of the two is that they both are pleasant to use. We've put a lot of hard work in the UX (which is also hard to market and one of the reasons why you probably haven't heard about us).

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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