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@[email protected] I have a genuine doubt and I swear if you convince me I will pay for Notesnook because I really wanted to pay for it a while ago.
I used Notesnook for a long time but I used it before they made the basic (unpaid) version more restrictive, where you couldn't even put a code block without being asked to pay, but before that and after I have used Joplin + Nextcloud and I can say it's reasonably good but what I don't like about Joplin is that it doesn't have background sync, do you happen to know if Notesnook has background sync or if they plan to?
And another doubt, something I love about Joplin is that I create a notebook and I can create a notebook inside that notebook, but in Notesnook I don't remember being able to do that and that is something uncomfortable for me. I mean, in my case let's say I have a notebook called Windows without any notes, it's just like a base to know where my other notes are organized and inside that notebook I create other notebooks that are where I actually write my notes, for example, I create a notebook called "CLI Programs", "Open Source Programs", "Closed Source Programs" and everything is organized in a very comfortable way because inside the Windows notebook I have those other notebooks, and then I create a Linux Notebook and do the same, but in Notesnook I can't do that, how would you do that for example in Notesnook? I know I could just create a notebook called "Open Source Programs - Linux" and then another one called "Open Source Programs - Windows" but I really feel that would be a mess for the view, what I like about Joplin is that I can sort my notebooks inside others in a tree style. In my case, within "CLI Programs" each note is equivalent to a separate CLI program with its description and images, and I remember I had tried to replicate that in Notesnook by creating a single giant note called "Programs" where I mixed the different categories but it was a disaster honestly.
What do you mean by background sync, like it syncing as a background service without needing to open up the app?
Unfortunately, nested notebooks are still in the planning stage but they are on the road map. It's also something that I would really like to see added, but for right now since I get unlimited tags and notebooks and you can also select a couple of colors I've made a "tech" notebooks and made tags like "linux "lemmy" and things like that and then I can just stack the tags and if need be add a color to it to differentiate it further. I wouldn't say that Joplin is bad just that leaves a lot to be desired and especially things that I really need for my day to day and just like that is integrated to notesnook. Right now they're almost done with adding different app formats but nested notebooks is pretty soon on the list