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logseq
A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.
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github-orgmode-tests
This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files
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xournalpp
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.
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Outline
The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.
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Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. For issues, visit https://standardnotes.com/forum or https://standardnotes.com/help. (by standardnotes)
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QOwnNotes
QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
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NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better Joplin alternative or higher similarity.
Joplin discussion
Joplin reviews and mentions
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We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-05-18.
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Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian
What is this providing over similarly Markdown based open source note taking applications like Joplin? (https://joplinapp.org/)
I've been a huge fan of the fact that my backend sync infrastructure is my own self-hosted S3 bucket with local clients handling the presentation layer.
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Why Self-Hosting and Open Source Matter More Than Ever 🎇
For notes, try Joplin or Standard Notes
- Top 10 Open Source Side Projects You Can Build on a Weekend
- Self-hosting like a final boss: what I actually run on my home lab (and why)
- Ditching Obsidian and building my own
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Why I switched from obsidian: A real developer’s story and what I’m using now
Joplin Official Website My current workhorse for fast, reliable notes.
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Taking Notes with Joplin
You likely ran into this issue, which is a bug with onedrive itself: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/11489#issuecommen...
there will be a failsafe implemented for that issue in version 3.3
personally, I highly recommend using the s3 sync with cloudflare, it's faster than onedrive and it's pretty hard to exceed cloudflare's free tier
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025)
Thanks! I built the editor using Tiptap (https://tiptap.dev/) which doesn't support Markdown out of the box. However, since it can detect Markdown shortcuts (#, ##, >, etc.), it should be possible to convert a markdown file into rich text, and then when done writing and editing convert it back into markdown, while limiting formatting options only to ones that are available for both. I think Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) does something similar.
I'll think about this for sure, especially since I've been thinking of making it possible to save and read local files. If you'd like to try Gorby, send me an email and I'll be happy to give you a free license code :)
- ✨ Top 5 Open-Source Terminal Note-Taking Applications ✨
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Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps
I am using https://joplinapp.org for notes, using Dropbox for sync though (can also use NextCloud or other sources see https://joplinapp.org/help/apps/sync/
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Stats
Basic Joplin repo stats
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laurent22/joplin is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
Joplin is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Joplin is TypeScript.
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