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Not quite the same thing as the article talks about, but I’ve been semi-regularly journaling and note-taking for many years using various systems, ranging from
by jl6 5y ago
Not quite the same thing as the article talks about, but I’ve been semi-regularly journaling and note-taking for many years using various systems, ranging from Microsoft Word, to plain text files, to Tap Log, to OneNote, to Day One, to homemade CLI apps. Some semi-structured data like the article describes, mostly unstructured text.
Earlier in the year I discovered Joplin and I’ve stuck with it, enjoying its balance of structure and unstructure. If it had the instant-data-entry-into-CSV feature of Tap Log it would be perfect, but nevertheless I decided having one journal / personal data repository was better than having several, and set about importing all my entries from my previous system. I now have many, many thousands of entries spanning over nearly 25 years, and I’m happy to report that Joplin is coping well.
- teekert 5y agoI tried to like Joplin, but it keeps annoying me that the files are not just plain md files server side, it's just a big mess. For that reason I use (for my admittedly much more spare usage) the build-in md editor and files from NextCloud.
- jl6 5y agoJoplin is just a SQLite database which is very easy to query.
- atomlib 5y agoThe name is a bit unfortunate for a few Slavic languages. Not as bad as Pidora, but still.
- Researcherry 5y agoCurious to know what joplin means in those Slavic languages.
- rossvor 5y agoIt's a bit of a reach tbh. "jopa" (жопа) would be a crude way to say "ass". Then some schoolyard nicknames would sometimes have a suffix -lin or -in (-лин,-ин) as general creative addition to create nickname. Unless I'm clueless about of some slang usage, or grandparent refered to some other Slavic language (not russian), "Joplin" (жоплин) doesn't mean anything directly.
- severak_cz 5y agoCzech here and no idea what it should be. Not even close to some profanity.
- heavenlyblue 5y agoI am Russian and I have no idea what that Joplin is supposed to mean.
- kashura 5y agoThis is such a reach. Looking for something to be offended by.