I really want to like Joplin, and I've tried to switch a number of times. But the mobile experience just isn't there for me. The iOS app is simple and reliable, which is good, but it's missing some of the touches that make mobile computing feel like it's made for mobile.
Specifically, things like swipes for navigation and for selecting or deleting notes. Also, many of the buttons are just too damn small for my sausage fingers. It's dumb, I know. Still, I find myself attempting to swipe to open the side bar then realizing my mistake after the second try and fumbling to reach the too small hamburger in the very top left of the screen.
Notes are something I reference at my desktop but generally write while on the go, so having a easy to use mobile app is a requirement for me. It's a shame though cause the desktop experience is so good.
just jumping on this to say I'm a Joplin user and I love it, thank you for building an awesome app. I currently also use notion because of Joplin's lack of note sharing on mobile; if good note sharing came to the Joplin mobile app I wouldn't need anything else. The only other feature I'd want that I think is missing from Joplin is the ability to define different storage locations / encryption keys per notebook to allow good separation of work and personal data. Overall though, wonderful app and I am so happy that something like it exists. I really feel like the intentions of the app developers align with my values, and that it will continue to go in the right direction for years to come.
Glad you like the app and thanks for the kind words! For separation between work and personal notes, we know support multiple profiles, as described here, available on both mobile and desktop: https://joplinapp.org/news/20220606-release-2-8/#multiple-pr...
By note sharing on mobile, what do you mean? I believe you can share some text from any app to Joplin. And there's also a way to share from Joplin to any other app (from the context menu). Or is it not currently working?
I use the iOS shortcut for pasting into Joplin and it works great other than not brining in the title.
Wanted to thank you for the great app! I left Evernote a year ago and it’s helped me get my journaling back on track. I use Dropbox sync and it wonderfully. I don’t remember the last time I had issues with it.
Only thing I hope for one day is the ability to see the article tags on each note in the list view so I can see which notes have which tags in common without having to click on the tag.
Multiple profiles is a great addition, but obviously would be even better if the app did not need to close and re-open. The risk for me is that a thought disappears in the time it takes me to swap profiles, but I think the keyboard shortcut should help with that on desktop :) the switching itself seems to be fast enough.
My use case is sharing lists etc (e.g a shopping list, task lists) with my wife who barely ever goes on a desktop computer, and have her be able to share lists with me, update them etc.
Joplin as a FOSS app is really a good initiative and I keep trying it from time to time. However having used smartphones for more than a decade now (and being a mobile developer) I have realised that, whatever would be the reason for an Electron app (there might be valid ones like resource, time, target audience etc), an electron app just doesn't cut it. So I doubt I can use an electron app on mobile. Problem is it shows :(
> Specifically, things like swipes for navigation and for selecting or deleting notes.
Gestures / swipe-navigation gets me every time too. There’s also a new enhanced editor on iOS but it’s a little clunky so I switched back to the plain textbox one. I still use and love Joplin, but tolerate some rough edges on mobile because it’s truly open source.
Joplin on desktop with the MacOS theme-plugin is great. The markdown editor on an actual Macbook outshines whatever is packaged with Linux, but both are very usable. Several other nice plugins on desktop that I rely on are inline-tags, simple backup, templates and the outline sidebar.
Overall, love Joplin and can’t wait to see more improvements as time goes on.
I also write on the go and reference on the desktop later. What is your current workflow? Apple Notes would be great except my work computer is windows, and apple notes in the browser is not great
Obsidian. It's not perfect but I like a lot of what it brings. Particularly, I like that the notes remain in an accessible format (though as long as the format is not proprietary I'd be fine) and the mass of third party plugins supports basically any workflow. The main issue for me is the fact that the main app is not open source (not for any particular reason other than that I like supporting open source initiatives). I pay for their sync option which works well, though on iOS your kinda forced into it as iCloud sync does not work well. Otherwise, though their mobile experience improved greatly in recently releases.
Thanks for this. I used orgmode for many years, and love it. My main issue is that I travel and found that using the mobile versions unpleasant. Obsidian looks very slick.
If I ever went back to a desk job I’d switch back to orgmode instantly. For now it’s OneNote + whatever is nearby that I can write on (and maybe Obsidian!).
Specifically, things like swipes for navigation and for selecting or deleting notes. Also, many of the buttons are just too damn small for my sausage fingers. It's dumb, I know. Still, I find myself attempting to swipe to open the side bar then realizing my mistake after the second try and fumbling to reach the too small hamburger in the very top left of the screen.
Notes are something I reference at my desktop but generally write while on the go, so having a easy to use mobile app is a requirement for me. It's a shame though cause the desktop experience is so good.