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I’ll wait a few months and then check in again.
It stores all metadata in YAML frontmatter and doesn’t cache in an SQLite blob? I bet that decision will be reversed pretty quickly once people try to migrate a 10k+ note collection and want to do operations like search immediately instead of scanning every file to build an in-memory cache.
You’re right that all metadata lives in markdown frontmatter, but it’s not uncached. The notes list also only reads around 2KB frontmatter, so it stays fast well past 10k notes. We do have some tweaks planned though to optimize this even further. This is a great suggestion, thank you!
No vibe coding. No AI. No slop. This is absolutely screaming LLM
The whole website looks like AI.
Also the commit history is only 3 month old and the first commit is 26000 lines. How ever this could be longer in development and commits could be squashed. At this point, I doubt it though.
They could be hosting the source code on github or something like that and changed to couldberg no?
nope, the git history would move with the repo
This isn’t a guarantee and also assumes the previous version management was git.
the advertising is troubling to me somehow; it has a budget and someone deciding were to spend the money on advertising.
the advertising is troubling to me somehow; it has a budget and someone deciding were to spend the money on advertising.
I’m not being paid to advertise. This is just my contribution to the project.
that’s impressive af; it looks really professional!
Thank you, that’s very kind of you to say!
you should go pro; you clearly already have the skills.
automatically responding that this was created with an LLM? this is absolutely screaming LLM
I’ve been using Joplin on my phone and laptop with WebDAV sync to my NAS. Have plans to update to Joplin server so can share notes with the Baroness.
Been using Joplin with self hosted server for years and it’s been great. It’s not the prettiest app, but it’s been the stickiest for my needs.
i upgraded to using Joplin from my old notes app that was not as robust.
i absolutely love Joplin and it’s really great for organization as well.
simple and effective.
Nice to see a Tauri app around here !
At this point I just need a markdown editor for my phone and syncthing to move everything back and forth.
Excellent. Thank you. But using an online AI provider to me seems against the stated goals. I know online is the preferred option for most people, but you should provide them alongside connecting to a local server.
Just downloaded it and opened it and the first thing it does is to ask me for a “notes folder” with .md files, which I don’t have. I just wanted to try it by writing notes.
Try creating a blank folder and open it that way. Does it let you in after that?
