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I have switched from Joplin to Obsidian.
For no reason at all (no new version, no added plugins) Joplin suddenly takes about 20 seconds to load and is very sluggish.

Obsidian is running in 3 seconds and switches like lightning.

I uncompressed the Joplin appimage to see if that made a difference: nope. Couldn't find any info online for this either.

Great thing: the switch only took 1 export to markdown.

I saw it mentioned on the #Joplin app's website that my #Fastmail account gives me a #WebDAV service that the app can use as a sync location.

A quick sync setup guide that's ONLY safe if you haven't sync'd anywhere else previously:
- (optional) turn on E2E encryption in Joplin
- create an FM "app password"
- in FM's "files" section, create a folder (e.g. "Joplin")
- enable WebDAV sync inside Joplin:
- URL: webdav.fastmail.com/[localpart
- user: [localpart]#[domain]
- pass: [app password]
- enable sync

As I mentioned in one of my previous posts (or maybe multiple ones), my note taking tool of choice is Joplin, because of its flexibility, customizability. I did quite a lot of customization on it, including some CSS styles for the UI of the program itself, and the rendered notes, to make things more visible, prettier, and also included workarounds for some rendering issues. I also like to use the plugin called Templates with a template I made to create study notes from.

I decided to share these things with you, maybe some of you will find them useful too.
codeberg.org/fossery-tech/jopl
You can find detailed description of what's included, and how to use the config in the README.

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Puh, den ganzen Nachmittag damit verbracht, die 50+ offenen Tabs abzuarbeiten. Hat sich gelohnt, ich habe einiges gelernt und in #Joplin festgehalten, mehrere LinkedIn-Posts und Blogbeiträge gedraftet sowie interessante Texte gelesen.

Nach 10 Tagen am Stück voller Termine und Verpflichtungen sitze ich jetzt hier und schaue auf meine Taskliste. Leer, fast jedenfalls. Was tue ich also heute, ausser dem üblichen #Prokrastinieren (waschen, putzen)? Ich räume mal die 50+ offenen Browser-Tabs auf, die sich in den letzten 14 Tagen angesammelt haben. #Joplin ist bereit, um die daraus hoffentlich entstehenden Notizen aufzunehmen 😂

Got all my old notes out of #Joplin and migrated them all to #Obsidian. Then set up a email archive routine to push all the saved email in my #work #Office365 out to local files and save the attachments. Then dedupe and store it all in Obsidian. Then throw away the saved email. I learned long ago that I absolutely cannot trust any employer with my professional email, ever since fucking #WMU. Never ever again. I’ll store it privately, thanks. #infotech #NoTrust

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@futurphil

Ist nicht ganz das selbe, aber ich verwende #Joplin dafür (meistens speichere ich ganze Seiten mit "clip markdown page" oder merk mir den Link mit "clip link")

Durch Sync via Webdav hab ich die Inhalte dann auf einem Android-Device und 2 Linux-Rechnern.

(Eigentlich als Google-Keep-Ersatz damit angefangen, aber es kann so sehr viel mehr)

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@neurovagrant

Instapaper has really improved their product over the last year. They now have tags, folders, and highlights.

Unfortunately, they've also increased their price. A lot.

Raindrop.io is technically a bookmark manager, but it also has really great web page formatting for reading.

Ultimately, we may all have to find a way to archive our own favorite articles. Zotero, #Joplin, #Obsidian are pretty good candidates.

I love #joplin so much. I find myself using it to publish long documents that I want others to read that are well formatted, but in plain HTML so can't be edited, and live on my server. Better than a PDF by far, and markdown makes including tables and other complicated layout easy. The only improvement I'd love is the ability to see how many visits a published note got. I don't need browser and IP and location and all that stuff. Just a number, so I can know if a link I shared with a single person was viewed by them.

TIL that #Joplin has a pretty horrific way of synchronising files, and also that it gets its icons from the operating system -- not from it's internal storage.

Which means that if you sync up to a new machine without the icons, all your icons will be ugly little splotches.

Unfortunately, I didn't know this until I had deleted and restored my data from an export.

This in turn triggered a process where 2000 items were deleted/uploaded off a server.