Hey,
I’m using Joplin (a Markdown note taking app) and think about migrating to Logseq because of multiple reasons.
The main problems I have not yet solved:
- OSS-Syncing Logseq notes between Desktop OS and Android. Logseq does not have an OSS selfhostable sync-server like Joplin has…
- Making sure to transform my stuff, so that Logseq can work with it. Yes, it’s both Markdown, but especially images and how Joplin handles them seem to be a problem for this migration.
What are your experiences? Have you ever switched between 2 Markdown note taking apps?
- Which ones?
- How well went it?
Is it maybe even possible to use app 1 and a Desktop OS and a totally different app on Android simultaneously on the same data? The common standard is Markdown…
Hi, why are you migrating away from Joplin? Did you know you can use it in non-markdown mode (basically wysiwyg) I found myself to use it more and more. And the md is still underlayed and I can switch to it if I have issues with the editor. You can link between notes too. There is a plugin to see a notes map (kinda like obsidian.
Currently testing zettelnotes, as it has git support, and file encryption. (I know Obsidian has several encryption plugins and git support) Obsidians is quite slow on my phone (too many plugins 😅) and I wouldn’t mind my notes being encrypted just for peace of mind.
Importing notes went quite good so far. I like Obsidians UI better as it is more polished.
First I was impressed by the extensibility of Obsidian, but over time I figured, I don’t need most plugins on a daily basis.
I would like to have a markdown Editor on Android, that supports editing .md file stored in different folders, without the need of setting up a Vault or other setup steps.
I use Markor Notes on my android device with syncthing to send it all to my PC. It’s a terrific markdown (and general text) editor that doesn’t have much of an opinion about how you organize your files.
I migrated from Logseq to Anytype. I just took the raw contents from the directories and imported them as markdown in the desktop client.
Since I moved to PARA, everything has been archived. When I need a page from the archive I edit it to make it look better.
I migrated from Joplin to Obsidian a year or two ago. It was straightforward. With Joplin, I had to use the export functionality from the desktop app. That cleaned up any non-standard bits and allowed for a straightforward import into Obsidian.
Logseq to Obsidian.
Logseq’s markdown is weird and not standard. Everything is indented and in a list, even headings. I love me some open source, but this is a hard no.
Open your logseq files in a plain text editor and compare with the standard. I spend much of my time editing them back to Markdown.
Syncing logseq is easy on Syncthing. The only issue being that one has to watch out for conflicts by not editing one on one instance before the other sends it/it is received, but that’s a sync issue not Logseq.
Bro. Just try it with duplicate files.
You will find out if the pictures don’t load.As for syncing: I heard some use syncthing for that.
My personal problem with it is, that I can never be sure it’s done with multi device usage as there is no feedback to tell me so.I am using Obsidian.md both with a remote repository (built-in 1st party paid model) and a community plugin for another repository using remotely-save (which saves it to my personal onedrive folder).
Both options have an indicator that they are done saving.
But with remotely-save I encountered corruption when I turned on my pc which hadnt had connected in a longer time. And remotely-save is configured to stop syncing if >50% of files have been changed.
So now I am running a background task to zip the whole folder and purge the oldest one every week.Try silver bullet https://silverbullet.md/
I use it for a few years now and it’s lightweight and useful. Also my markdown notes are in real folders without much database overhead.
A few things I miss (and would like to see added in form of plugins to keep the pure style):- A real folder navigator additionally to the open pages dialogue
- A proper WYSIWYG export to PDF
- Drawn, diagram and mindmap style notes
But it’s still my favourite over Obsidian.
Obsidian-Syncthing user here. I agree with what someone else said about no feedback from syncthing that it is or is not done updating files. Beyond that though, it’s a great tool that handles all my notes well.
Have you tried to open a joplin .MD file in a plain text editor? That is not markdown. Its markdown wrapped into some Joplin format.
Can it really be migrated 1:1 to another app?
Joplin’s notes can easily be exported as standard markdown (File | Export All | Markdown).
When I was evaluating Joplin and Obsidian for my notes, I switched between them multiple times and it was very easy. The folder of markdown files exported from joplin can be opened directly as an obsidian vault. The only issue is if you had resized any images with Joplin’s rich text editor (doing that converts the images to html img src tags, but that was easily fixed with a script to convert them back to markdown links)
I can’t say whether it can be cleanly migrated to another app but there are a number of export options to get you either to plain Markdown or something else within reason. When using the export option, the resulting Markdown at lest gives relative paths to any included media.
I don’t think it’s fair to suggest it’s not using Markdown. It just has a wrapper around it to make it work better for the usual use case of being a digital workbook.
OP have a look at “Jimmy”, it might be what you’re looking for: https://marph91.github.io/jimmy/formats/joplin/ ( https://github.com/marph91/jimmy )
I moved from Evernote to Joplin a number of years ago, and now self-host the Joplin server and use Joplin on all of my devices. Great app. I’m afraid I can’t help with the migration from that to something else, though!
I haven’t migrated apps (except ditching Evernote), but I use Obsidian with obsidian-livesync and it works great - typing on my phone live updates the notes on my PC. Downside is you need the self hosted software running somewhere
I just edit markdown files with neovim and sync with Syncthing. I don’t have it set up on android, but you sould probably use markor to edit.
I used to do that, but eventually found out about https://silverbullet.md/ it’s still just markdown files but I can edit them on the go with my phone.
Plus it has some nice extra syntax to query documents that’s quite handy.
I use YouTrack’s knowledgebase, which has a plugin for Draw.IO. I use the cloud version which is free but you can host it yourself.