My cat will take it as personal challenge to break it

There's plugin called Slash Commands for that but it's not available on android yet. Stay tuned

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Files and notes reorganized (Part 1)

Now that I have discovered Joplin for me, it continues with the question of how to organize my files and notes. On the now state of affairs.

When getting to know Nextcloud, my idea was that I were storing everything in it and also manage it with the Nextcloud apps (in the browser or on the smartphone). But that only works halfway.

Nextcloud

• With a good folder structure, a good archive can be set up in Nextcloud.
• The search in the web interface also quickly finds files with the search term in the name.
• However, the search for PDFs does not work. For this purpose, one would need an ElasticSearch server, which my provider Hetzner does not provide me.
• With the Nextcloud app, I can also mark individual files or entire folders for offline availability on my mobile devices.

Joplin

• My own Nextcloud instance allows me to sync joplin about it.
• The data is even sent encrypted by Joplin to Nextcloud, so that the security of the data stored in this way is also quite high.
• Since version 3.0, a text recognition for the stored PDFs and images is performed (at least on the desktop). Thus, terms can be found in these files.
• Nestable notebooks and tags (keywords) provide a good basis to keep order.
• Joplin runs on my iPhone, iPad, iMac and Macbook as well as on my Linux notebook.
• All the data I have stored in Joplin is always available offline on the above devices.

~~Apple Notes and iCloud~~

I briefly considered using Apple's notes app more. It is also very functional and well integrated into the Apple ecosphere. But: Once the data is in, you only get it out with difficulty. The current developments in the USA are not predictable. Who knows if I can or will still use Apple products in two or three years. Therefore, it is good to entrust the most important data, files and thoughts of more open systems. So I can still use Apple as a platform, but change relatively quickly if necessary.

So I have few more files in the iCloud, apart from some specific Apple applications and my photos.

Day One

Unfortunately, Day One is not so cross-platform. Recently there is a web interface. Otherwise, the app mainly runs on Apple devices. As a diary app, I have learned to appreciate them because they simplify many inputs and gives me a good chronological overview of some things. I won't give them up so quickly, but I'm considering whether some things could not find their place in joplin. Because in Joplin, I can change the date of creation of a note (unlike other programs) and thus build up a chronological order that I like in a notebook.

Strongbox

In recent years, I have also used my password management to save more sensitive files, such as Copies of my passport. This naturally inflates the underlying Keepass file. Now I can consider whether I am not shifting a lot to Joplin here, because its data is at least encrypted in the cloud. I only have to secure access to my devices sufficiently. Strongbox also runs on Apple devices only. But that is not a problem here. Because as written, Strongbox stores passwords and Co. in Keepass file format. And such a file can also be opened by some other password managers (including Linux). When I leave Apple, I am connected to my passwords in a season within seconds. The file sync is still running via iCloud, but here too I will try out a solution via Nextcloud soon.

Challenge

When I was still working with Evernote, it was my super app, where everything had landed: notes, important mail texts, PDFs (invoices, letters, brochures, ...), pictures and web archives. Joplin could be a bit like this super app. But I don't know if I want that. I want to collect hundreds of notes in a notebook again or try to collect “things” in a note. Must really end up in Joplin or some things are in good hands in a folder. For example, evidence I never actually need – except every few years for a special occasion.

And am I not the keeper? Shouldn't I start with the question of what I keep at all?

With Joplin and Nextcloud, I have now created a good new ecosphere, which needs to be explored further. Then it will become clear how I organize myself.

At the moment I am rather erasing. This is like the famous cleaning up in the study. I notice what I have of everything I have about the old stuff that I have never needed and will probably never need it. Digital also happens much faster that you save things twice and three times. With the help of an app, I was already able to find several Gigabytes of duplicates.

I am curious to see what I have to report in the second part, which was to come in a few weeks.

Icon on bottom left inserts current timestamp

So to reiterate, you've just stated that all the following[^1] doesn't need to be exported

• links to attachments,
• modification dates,
• internal links to your other notes (Obsidian doesn't even follow markdown standard here, so just say goodbye to it)
• titles,
• tags,
• folder structure

How about you just delete this metadata then? if in case of outage/transition to other notetaker it's going to be lost anyway, why you even need it, right?

c'mon, mate. I can feel you're smarter than this

[^1] This is called "front matter" format btw and all responsible usercentric notetakers offer an export of your metadata to it. But Obsidian is not one of them

To those who came here just to shill obsidian for some reason (drop me a dm! I also wanna get paid for my comments!) and say "it's critical to have my notes in local files":

Once user reaches few thousands of notes, non-db based software (Obsidian) will slow down to the point of being unusable. There's no workaround to this, since the bottleneck is storage speed

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Military grade impresses everyone but those who served.

In the mind of a soldier military grade is the cheapest, mass produced item that barely does the job, can be abandoned on the battlefield without regrets 😅

Brother in meme, since this community has a rule against political memes, pls repost it to !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca and remove this post