I tried using git for general note taking and I hated it. I used Foam, which is markdown inside of VSCode synced to Git, accompanied with GitJournal which allow

I tried using git for general note taking and I hated it. I used Foam, which is markdown inside of VSCode synced to Git, accompanied with GitJournal which allows you to update the same markdown files from a mobile device. Constantly putting in commit messages, dealing with conflicts, and syncing became annoying to the point it put me off making notes. For me, notes should be quick and frictionless. I am sometimes in a position where I’m away from the computer and want to take a quick note of something on my phone. So I switched to Joplin (markdown based but has a sync feature you can self-host), then I can move notes to git once they’re in a state I want to publish or have more long term storage. Joplin is basically an open source equivalent to Evernote, it does the job and I get to keep the format in markdown. It doesn’t have version control but there was a request to add this some time ago https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/753 https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/753