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I just switched to the Joplin markdown note app (from DS Note, and Evernote before that). It’s free, works on desktop and mobile, etc etc. Frankly I love it and wish I switched earlier.

Anyone have a good comparison vs Inkdrop?

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Joplin kicks ass. The only area it might need improvement is regarding showing the tags associated with a note without having to click a button.

The mobile app, web-clipper and desktop apps are all wonderfully done.

Joplin is really great. I use it since a few month. Unfortunately, I have some problems with the Windows version that I have to use at work: After a few days it eats my memory (2GiB+) or hangs completely (I have to kill it with the task manager).

Otherwise it's great. The UI could use a little polishing, especially regarding the tagging system.

Is this the only other note taking app besides Evernote that has a web clipper? That has been the killer feature for me. Will have to check it out.

OneNote, Bear and Notion all have web clippers.

Quiver recently added one as well, works decently and actually fetches images to store locally unlike Evernote web clipper

Some javascript-heavy segmented pages don't clip correctly, but firing up the browsers reader-mode usually clears all the js crap and allows page content to be cleanly clipped

http://happenapps.com/#quiver

I like Joplin, but writing markdown on mobile is a real PITA. They really should provide additional UI elements to create bullet points and alike.

Improving the mobile text editor is high priority (and has been tried a few times already), but currently there's no good React Native or web mobile code editor that can be used. CodeMirror for mobile is being developed so maybe we can use that once it's stable. I've actually already tried to integrate the beta in Joplin, which worked but it's not stable yet.

alright then, can't wait. thanks for the info.

I switched from Wunderlist to Todoist + Joplin (and I switched to Wunderlist from Google Inbox...)

Any particular reason you still need Todoist even though Joplin can also handle some To Dos?

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