obsidian-calendar-plugin VS Joplin

I really like the calendar plugin - it makes it easy to write daily notes, https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-calendar-plugin.

Daily Journaling using Periodic Notes and Calendar: These enable me to maintain my daily journaling habit that I had in Evernote and add a visual view using the Canvas plug-in and powerful templates for habit tracking.

Like this? https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-calendar-plugin

Ever since I discovered periodic notes, I wanted to make yearly, quarterly, and monthly plans. But the calendar plugin only provided quick access to daily and weekly notes.

Hello. It's kinda not efficient to manually type in the deadlines of my tasks in my kanban-board to the Calendar plugin by liamcain. Some of my deadlines were postponed so I had to change the deadline dates in my kanban-board thus I have to manually type in the new dates in my calendar.

To facilitate the creation of journal/daily pages, I suggest editing the “Daily Notes” settings. For example, use the following date format: YYYY/MM-MMMM/YYYY-MM-DD, and put all the notes in a single folder (like JOURNAL). You may also want to apply a specific template. It is also worth creating a separate note like “tags” where you will specify all the different tags to use for your daily notes (ideally start all the tags with -, like #-😊 so that once you type #- you will get a dropdown with all the tags). Finally, you can quickly find different dates with the Calendar plugin.

I'm referring to this plugin with the title "Calendar": https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-calendar-plugin

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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