![]() ![]() Try other note taking apps and maybe you'll find one that works better for you. If you don't like Joplin that's fine, don't use it. I've taken a different approach with software I've designed and found that it's usually less flexible in specific areas. Personally I'm not wild about the way Joplin handles images but I do understand that a choice had to be made, and I also appreciate why this was the selected solution. Tags are metadata and there are few standards for handling it without heading towards Dublin Core which doesn't really fit with any of the MarkDown "standards". Joplin does a pretty good job of helping you manipulate notes whilst making it easy to export if that's what you want. You can store them in something like Base-64 so that they change to text, but they're not useful text. Without software these files are just chunks of useless binary data. Images, video and sound are prime examples of this. In reality, unless you store everything as text (preferably in something like UTF-8), you're dependent on manipulation from a software layer at some point. It's also one of the best ways of handling versioning, particularly if previous versions are to be kept. It's a very efficient way of storing, manipulating and indexing small files. If you want to backup an SQLite database it's trivial - I backup several every night, together with 2 MariaDB databases.Īs for a database needlessly complicating things - occasionally, yes, but not in this case. So you chose to have at least two different storage mechanisms for a fricking notes application. In my view SQLite is only needlessly complicating things. Yes, I would still use your editor but when it or you would start to annoy me for some reason I would want an easy way out without needing the app, which may be pulled or impose restrictions on what I can do with my data. If that were the case, I would feel a lot more comfortable. I would rather not depend on what Joplin has to offer in terms of portability, I would rather have my data be open by nature so I can back it up using my backup tool of choice and other software can easily import it for whatever purpose.Ĭurrently it is just not very inviting for third parties to interface with notes created with Joplin and it is not trivial to just slap the note files in an editor and copy-paste them to a destination of choice. We are talking openness and independence. ![]()
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