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Joplin alternative? (feddit.it)
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I use Joplin and I do like it very much, but I would like to be able to at least view (not edit) the notes from web browser... Which is not supported.

Are there good alternatives that are:

  • fully open source
  • have android client
  • have web client or viewer
  • can be synched VOA WebDAV or native method

I can also settle for a Joplin web viewer of sorts!

UPDATE: i opened up a can of worms. I would have never tought there would be so many tools for this task, and so many different shades of how it can be done. Even excluding ALL the non-truly-FOSS solutions out there, there are still tons of tools with good points and bad points. Of course, NONE fits my bill so i will spin mine… Joking, i have no time for that.

Using joplib-webview feels too much. Spinning containers just for that meh. Will try tough. The joplin .md files are only "sync" files, from which yo ucan probably extract the notes. But that would be not the best idea. Maybe some kind of link to Joplin terminal would be the way forward. I will see.

I will stay on Joplin, it's the closest i could find to what i need, the only lacking is a web viewer, which i can live without for the time being after all.

Thank you all, and to anybody still chiming in!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (5 children)

It’s perhaps a bit of a different beast, but you may give a quick look at https://silverbullet.md.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

This looks neat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I want to try this...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I just did yesterday and I think it nails all my needs. Also the author seems to be nice and helpful

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Huh, there's a lot of us calling software "beasts" in this thread.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I kind of get it. Note apps are normally horribly cumbersome data serialization ecosystems you have to invest a lot of time into before you really feel like its doing anything more than a standard text editor could

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I meant beast in the figurative sense. It’s not a desktop app, which perhaps doesn’t make that much of a difference. I wrote it so I think I’m entitled to call my own software a beast 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gonna second Silverbullet. I'm a current logseq user, but I'm really liking the direction of this. Mainly because of the ease of accessing from multiple devices such as desktop, laptop, and mobile. I'm currently opening my logseq graph in sb on my android phone. Once I switch over fully, I won't have to worry about syncing my logseq graph.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Does silverbullet compare to obsidian? Can you use both? I like obsidians mapping graphical things but i haven’t looked at them extensively yet…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Wow that's an very interesting beast! That moment when you realize that the website is the tool itself really is something