Its not a bug, its a feature. Use the app, it 1) allows you to encrypt those files 2) works on a variety of devices 3) can export PDF/HTML/markdown for you. But if you want to edit the files without the app, you are better off just having a bunch of markdown files in a nextcloud folder, without Joplin.

[–] DPUGT2@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Use the app, it 1) allows you to encrypt those files

The NC web app doesn't interfere with encryption. Furthermore, Joplin then locks me into using it forever, my notes aren't easily viewed with anything else. If I clean them up to be usable with something else in the future, then I've messed them up so I can never use Joplin again.

This isn't a feature. It's a lock-in.

you are better off just having a bunch of markdown files in a nextcloud folder, without Joplin.

I probably am better off, because I need to steer clear of software producers who attempt to lock me into their product, and who spam up standard file formats with proprietary crud to make those unusable with other software.

But I am not better off without a notes application at all, because the NC interface is very basic and inconvenient for organizing a large number of notes. I can't use it on a phone, for instance. I can't juggle between notes-topics quickly. I wish there was a good notes app, that didn't try to lock me into their title, or their cloud, or whatever. Joplin's just not it. And it could have been, it was so close.

[–] peppermint@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I would agree with you, except it is possible to export each Joplin note individually as an archive and in bulk, and I simply cannot imagine how it is possible to have markdown + media support without a lock-in.