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๐Ÿ›ธ ๐Ÿ“ Your notes are about to land: Joplin progresses on filesystem mirror

In proposed PR Joplin creates a folder mirroring your notes as plain text files and notebooks as (sub)folders

To learn and more and watch the progress subscribe to the PR: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/pull/10448

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's pretty much what I wanted from this. Time to try it out again once its ready. Is there a reason the app couldn't just store notes in plain text as a standard? Sorry if that is a silly question, haven't used Joplin much.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The answer why Joplin actually shouldn't rely on filesystem as its source of truth is twofold: Search and scalability

Joplin can handle hundreds of thousands of notes and the search is pretty much instant. Relying on filesystem would defeat both of these features

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Ah, I see. Didn't think of it on that scale, makes sense. Thanks!