Taking Notes with Joplin

Joplin is really nice feature-wise but the last time I looked at it a few years back I absolutely HATED the way that it structured your notes.

The way it worked was that they stored new/existing notes in an SQLite table with UUIDs. This of course makes it very difficult to use bash tools, other IDEs, etc. to work with your notes after Joplin has ingested them.

Further the related media was renamed "UUID.<related extension>" which were stored in `~/.config/joplin-desktop/resources`.

Compare this to apps like VS Code / Obsidian / Logseq (also open source) which don't mess with your markdown file organization. You can just point them to a root folder and they'll work natively with your markdown files. No syncing required.

I really think you’re trying to use the wrong tool for the job here. Joplin isn’t designed for your notes to be modified outside of the ecosystem, the notes themselves are markdown so you can export or transfer them, but you can’t simultaneously edit them outside of Joplin. For that you’re better off with a folder of markdown files which you can push to Git.

Joplin is essentially an open source version of Evernote and a great alternative for people who enjoyed that style of application.