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Personally I have been a fan of Joplin https://joplinapp.org for note taking. It is also markdown-based with all kinds of features and is MIT licensed.

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I am a huge fan of Joplin. Love that it has both a GUI as well as terminal interface and syncs via Dropbox. I can use vim emulation in the GUI and real vim when running from the terminal.Oh - and it has a mobile app too. All libre software.

I've been incredibly happy with Joplin, to the point of a recurring subscription on Patreon. It's got everything I want: cross-platform, FOSS, sync with webDAV, and a good clean interface. I strongly recommend it.

Joplin has a broken mobile interface on iOS. I had hopes, but they were dashed.

Yeah, it works but needs some serious help. Apart from it not acting like an iOS app at all, the one thing it REALLY needs is the "send to" support.

What’s broken about it? Admittedly I haven’t been using it for more than a month, but the interface seems to work just fine on my iPhone.

I remember trying some basic operations a few months ago and it was just not working properly at all. Like I couldn't scroll when the keyboard was up levels of borked.

The iOS-can’t-scroll bug was killing me for about 5 months, they finally fixed recently. It’s free software and all but...oof.

I love joplin.

I have two portable installs in different folders - one journaling. The other for work notes. The problem is that only one instance of joplin can work at a time. So to use one, I'd have to kill the other. That is the only reason I'm looking for an alternative

I'm looking for a not taking app, currently using omni notes

Can you share notes with joplin?

Can you backup to my own webdav?

WebDAV, Nextcloud, Dropbox and one drive are all supported sync endpoints.

Sadly there really isn't any sharing. I mean, you could possibly do it via sharing the same sync endpoint, but there is no control to what would be seen.

> Can you backup to my own webdav?

I used to use Joplin with Fastmail's webdav.

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