I have a tag called “starred” that I use for things I consider super-important, as it lets me pull all of them into view with a single click. I mostly navigate things this way, but, for things that cut across folders, I take advantage of the tagging feature, which is near the bottom of that left-hand navigation menu. I have top-level categories for Home, Freelance, Haas (my full-time job) and Upward Bound (my part-time job). As you can see from the pane on the left, I like to organize my life by folders within folders. But, even if you’re coming to it from some other platform–or just getting your feet wet in apps of this sort–the interface is easy to navigate and gives you multiple ways to organize things. So, what’s good about Joplin? Lots of things.Īs you can see from the screenshots above, the interface is very similar to Quiver, so it was an easy jump for me. Markdown shows up often as a formatting option in a variety of software, including blogging apps, Content Management Systems (CMS) and Learning Management Systems (LMS). But it’s grown to be something generally useful for a lot of applications, especial note taking, and it can be exported to many formats, including PDF. The original idea behind Markdown was to create a markup language which was writer friendly and human readable which could be exported to HTML for use on blogs. Markdown is a great language for anyone who has ever done web design, web development, or any sort of programming. I got into using Markdown for my notes before I adopted Quiver, when I was using nvALT (another Mac-only app, no longer in development). Joplin, showing a note in Markdown and a preview of the sameĪll my Quiver notes were in Markdown format, and I continue to use that format in Joplin. But that, too, was resoled fairly quickly and didn’t take a tremendous amount of work. That left me with the problem of moving data from the old system to the new one. I decided that Joplin was the closest thing to Quiver in terms of features and even had some advantages over it, like a truly functional mobile app. It was the app I recommended to my Windows friends (yes, I have a few) as Quiver is a Mac-only app. So I searched for alternatives and found Joplin, which I’d seen and even tried out once in the past. Quiver, showing a note in Markdown and a preview of the same Enter Joplin If this disappearing note thing is a real issue, there’s no telling how long it will take for him to fix it. Quiver hasn’t been updated in a long while. I was relieved, but I also realized it was time to move on. After the initial shock of it, I had the presence of mind to check the same entires using Quiver installed on my 2017 MacBook Air, which is running the older macOS Catalina, 10.15.7. Their titles still existed, but the contents of the notes were blank. Many notes were blank, and I wasn’t sure why. But it gave me a scare a few days ago on my 2020 M1 MacBook Pro, which is running macOS Big Sur, 11.4. I had been using Quiver, a relatively unknown application from a one-person development team called Happen Apps for years now. They are like a well organized attic or file drawer, but one that’s easily searchable. They are easily searchable repositories for all matter of data you might need in the future, and that you’ll lose otherwise. But they’re especially useful for those little bits of information that you need to be able to find later but that don’t seem to fit anywhere else. They’re fine for note taking and plans of all sorts. But note-taking itself isn’t really the point (or, at least, the entire point). It’s perplexing that there isn’t even a good name for this category of software. Lots of people have a Word document or a spreadsheet somewhere, but specialized software does a better job of storing, organizing and–most importantly–finding such things. For years now, I’ve kept a lot of useful information–the sort of stuff I used to jot down on a Post-it note and lose–in software fit for the purpose.
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