ordinary-puzzles-app VS Joplin

Last, because you're supporting multiple platforms in a single directory, it's easy to end up with confusing indirections and branches in platform-specific files. This may be just a "me" thing, but I find it hard to navigate around configuration files of projects that support multiple platforms. At first glance, it may look like all platforms use the same configuration files. But once you dig a bit deeper, you realize that each platform requires some ad-hoc tweaks to the configuration files (for Metro, Babel, Webpack, etc.). Want an example from a codebase I wrote? Check out Ordinary Puzzles, which is a mobile, web, and Electron app. It's not easy to understand what files are used by which platform (e.g., what platform build phase is using babel.config.js?)

Can't say for sure. It's highly likely you'll need to make some changes to the metro bundle config when you update React-Native. But at least these changes should be less painful to deal with than having to mess with the native code (which you would do if you don't use nohoist). Personally, I prefer this approach to the known alternatives — which are not using a monorepo at all (which can get confusing as soon as you start supporting multiple platforms) or using a monorepo without nohoist. But it might be just a matter of preference 👍

I recently needed to wrap a React app generated with Create React App (CRA) with Electron (well, the app itself uses React Native for Web, but it doesn’t matter). My goal was to stay within the Create React App limits as much as possible (without ejecting). There’s no shortage of guides on how to do it online. Still, I couldn’t find one that fully follows the Electron security guidelines and provides a distribution setup using Electron-builder. So, here’s yet another tutorial on how to wrap an app built with Create React App in Electron — from the initial scaffolding up to the distribution workflow.

Ordinary Puzzles - Mobile and web puzzle game built with React-Native

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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