r/joplinapp

Greetings & Happy July 4th, everyone!

I've been using Joplin for a couple of years now and it's precisely what I needed after I hit the breaking point on Evernote and their ridiculous subscription fees shootin' way too high for me. Overall, it's been the perfect replacement for my needs.

However, I've lost quite of bit of text by an accidental edit and no "back" button to save me from retyping everything. Am I missin' it somewhere? If none exist, then why not? I'd LOVE for that to be there because of my fat fingers!

Thanks!

So I am new to Joplin, I am curious if Joplin can be integrated with AIs to help with memory for token savings with AIs. I know Obsidian has plugins and such so I would think that Joplin could do this as well. The question is: "What is the best way to integrate saving my prompts and chat history, and code to work with my IDE, and agent harness?"

New to the app, I use it on android. Quite frankly, I just don't like or use markdown and I don't want to get familiar with it. Especially not on mobile way too clunky for a small screen.

I got a new iPhone and transferred all my data from old device with love and care. Unfortunately, bootstrapping my notes from Joplin has left my device in a screwed up state.

I'm an actual note-taking power user and have 23,000+ note items on my Joplin. It already took me 48 hours to bootstrap the download of these notes from scratch, which is acceptable I guess. But since my note revision retention was set to 90 days (the default setting), I now have 370,000+ revisions to delete, and my iPhone is blocked from actually syncing new writes until this is finished.

I don't know why there's 370k revisions, or why my new phone should be the master source for all of these, but the end result is that I will probably need to have my phone running 24/7 with the Joplin app open for 7 days to clear through all of these.

I checked online and searched with AI tools and there seems to be no way around this. What's frustrating is that my settings are all vanilla and I'm just trying to get the app working on a new phone, but I'm completely blocked until this is done, and I'll probably damage my battery life by having the mobile client on for such a long time.

I think this issue is exacerbated by the fact that Joplin is apparently treating each note and each revision as its own data object, even on a "starting from zero" bootstrap scenario. What I would really love in the future is if my entire Joplin state could simply be zipped into a binary data blob, then for that blob to be unzipped locally on my new device, so that there's no need to do data operations on a per-entity basis.

Another potential fix could be if new note writes have a higher priority than revision deletions, or if the queue could have a designated number of jobs allocated for different types of operations (note write, note delete, revision delete could all occupy different slots).

Since it's an iPhone and not jailbroken, I don't think I'll be able to manipulate the SQL database myself. I've resigned myself to my fate, simply posting here for other people to know about. I love you guys, and I'm grateful for this app and its existence, wish all the best for the project and maintainers, just posting this out of my frustration at the current situation. All the best.

Windows, Joplin current version, states everything is syncing properly, (Check Synchronization configuration), but files in a notebook called "Reference" are not updating to Nextcloud as Android apps are not seeing update.

But, Android Joplin app, on two difference devices sync correctly. I can create an entry on one tablet and it shows up in Joplin on the cell phone. So the Android devices are properly writing to the Nextcloud.

If Windows synchronization configuration gave me an error, I would venture down that road. But the test says all is well.

What is the best approach to resolve this issue?

I use split screen views frequently in other apps (and I don't mean the markdown/richtext editors that are already in Joplin). Does anyone else think this would be a cool feature?

Is there a way you can currently make this happen? I know you can make a "new window", but I'd really prefer just the ability to have two notes side by side instead, each with it's own scroll bar.

I've been been using Nextcloud to sync but am considering making the switch to Joplin Cloud. Other than backing up, is there anything else I need to know to ensure I don't lose any notes?

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I'm sync'ing between an Android phone and Linux (Fedora).

I use the "Favorites" plugin for Joplin on Windows 11. But the "Favorites" plugin is incompatible for Joplin on Android. Do you know of an alternative or workaround for quickly finding often used notes? Thanks.