Such support is needed in the long term to provide bug and security fixes, add new features, and provide support. Moreover, by getting a subscription you are supporting the development of the project as a whole, including the open source applications. No sharing and collaboration features(by default/previous-design): you will need to take screenshots, or copy text, or export the note as a PDF/HTML/Markdown file, or self-host a Joplin server, or pay for the “official” Joplin Cloud supports sharing, it is a paid sync service.Full control of your data: you take the responsibility for backup.Free and open source: codebase needs to be maintained, luckily it is actively maintained now.Probably not, here are some possible dealbreakers(the bad): In my humble opinion, almost all those articles just introduced several fancy tools with fancy features, some might also encourage readers to take more notes, some might not, then implied so naturally that you can “just take your notes there” and the article is done.īut the user story has just begun: you take notes now, you find notes later, copy/append to/revise them, then you take more notes, repeat the process until you find that it can not satisfy your new reasonable needs and will not satisfy in the foreseeable future, or just that you are irritated by the service provider like me.Īnd then you are here, thinking: will Joplin work for me?

Too many introductory articles, too little notes taken. How is the status of note-taking/knowledge-management software and services? The title can also be interpreted as an imperative sentence.

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