Hierarchical note taking, Joplin, Trilium, browser extensions, etc..
At last night's meeting, a new attendee brought up a problem she was having and one of the solutions that got bandied about was Joplin. After doing some research, this might be my new note taking app. Another very interesting FOSS tool out there is called "Trilium" https://github.com/zadam/trilium As much as I like google's keep.. I'm fully aware that google capable of just pulling the rug out from under me in a moment's notice. I've spun up U22.04.3 server and I'm going to tinker with Joplin and possibly Trilium and let people know what I think of them. Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
It's not open source, but I use Obsidian at work. That said, it stores all the notes as markdown files on disk, so even if the company were to go up in flames, you can still access your notes Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2023 9:31:31 PM To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug@lists.wlug.org> Cc: Tim Keller <turbofx@gmail.com> Subject: [EXT] [WLUG] Hierarchical note taking, Joplin, Trilium, browser extensions, etc.. At last night's meeting, a new attendee brought up a problem she was having and one of the solutions that got bandied about was Joplin. After doing some research, this might be my new note taking app. Another very interesting FOSS tool out there is called "Trilium" https://github.com/zadam/trilium As much as I like google's keep.. I'm fully aware that google capable of just pulling the rug out from under me in a moment's notice. I've spun up U22.04.3 server and I'm going to tinker with Joplin and possibly Trilium and let people know what I think of them. Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
The "storing my notes in some sensible format" is high on my list of features. Calle can speak more directly to her needs, but for me I have this giant never ending emacs buffer that's a tangle of web links, snippets of text, random "oh cool ansible" one off commands, etc. It's not scalable, it's on one machine and it lacks good meta data around the entries.. what I can do is say "what were all the links I went to two weeks ago?" Right now I have the equivalent of the pile of somewhat searchable paper two feet high. I've tried to use confluence at work and that product is a horrendous priece of shit. Tim. On Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 11:06 PM Krichevsky, Nicholas via WLUG < wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
It's not open source, but I use Obsidian at work. That said, it stores all the notes as markdown files on disk, so even if the company were to go up in flames, you can still access your notes
Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ------------------------------ *From:* Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> *Sent:* Friday, August 11, 2023 9:31:31 PM *To:* Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug@lists.wlug.org
*Cc:* Tim Keller <turbofx@gmail.com> *Subject:* [EXT] [WLUG] Hierarchical note taking, Joplin, Trilium, browser extensions, etc..
At last night's meeting, a new attendee brought up a problem she was having and one of the solutions that got bandied about was Joplin.
After doing some research, this might be my new note taking app. Another very interesting FOSS tool out there is called "Trilium" https://github.com/zadam/trilium
As much as I like google's keep.. I'm fully aware that google capable of just pulling the rug out from under me in a moment's notice.
I've spun up U22.04.3 server and I'm going to tinker with Joplin and possibly Trilium and let people know what I think of them.
Tim.
-- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers". _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/55SLGF...
"Tim" == Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
The "storing my notes in some sensible format" is high on my list of features.
Same here. Currently I have a directory with a pile of files in there and I use grep alot, and emacs (sometimes VIM) to edit my notes. Saves my ass all the time, but doens't scale well.
Calle can speak more directly to her needs, but for me I have this giant never ending emacs buffer that's a tangle of web links, snippets of text, random "oh cool ansible" one off commands, etc. It's not scalable, it's on one machine and it lacks good meta data around the entries.. what I can do is say "what were all the links I went to two weeks ago?"
I don't bother with the web snippets, I just mostly leave tabs open forever. :-) And I have a ton of half written web interfaces, python scripts, old emails saved in VM format mailbox files,etc. I need to move them to maildir format at some time, but even now it's useful enough to grep through (sometimes I use glimpse) and them run less, or visit the mail file with 'vm' in emacs to view the data.
Right now I have the equivalent of the pile of somewhat searchable paper two feet high.
*only* two feet? I think mine is two *miles* high!
I've tried to use confluence at work and that product is a horrendous priece of shit.
Most products are, because GUIs sell due to the low learning curve. But they're *slow* to interact with. Why do you think MS finally made powershell and people love ansible and other tools like that? Because GUI work doesn't scale. If you take the time to get over the learnign curve, keyboard shortcuts are the way to productivity. And that's why I still write these emails in 'vm' on emacs in an SSH connection. Just so much faster and simpler. But viewing GUI images sucks... John
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