[kwlug-disc] Documenting your digital life

[Nelson F]

Long time lurker here.

I had my notes on Wunderlist, exported them to Microsoft To do when they 
got bought, but could not install it on a PC without a Microsoft account.

I found Joplin last year after looking into other things (Notion 
included, which was more work than fun).

Joplin is simple, synchronizes well and they release often.


On 2025-05-20 10:42 PM, Jason wrote:
> I'mI've been looking at Markdown based note taking programs.  I like 
> writing Markdown because it's easy to format and makes good Readme files.
>
> Obsidian doesn't have a free open source license so I am always 
> surprised by how popular it is.
>
> For a website, MkDocs and Hugo are both good options with lots of 
> customization. Material for MkDocs is a framework to extend and 
> customize the site. This is more of a WordPress replacement I'm 
> considering:
>
> https://www.mkdocs.org/
> https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/
> https://gohugo.io/content-management/formats/
>
> Joplin is probably the one I am going to try for note taking:
> https://joplinapp.org/help/apps/markdown/
>
> Would appreciate feedback from anyone who has used it.
>
> I don't think I'll need a full wiki.  Organizing notes by folders and 
> md files is pretty logical to me.
>
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2025, 10:32 PM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc 
> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 02:02:04PM -0400, John Van Ostrand wrote:
>     > As you've seen I've be chatting about VPNs and making use of my
>     notes about
>     > implementing the VPNs on my personal networks, which I store in
>     a wiki. I
>     > also store other things like serial numbers, product numbers for
>     > consumables, etc.
>     >
>     > Do you keep detailed notes of household information? If so, what
>     do you use?
>
>     I still use text files, because I am a dinosaur and want to grep. But
>     my understanding is that the cool kids use Obidisan (and clones) these
>     days? This allows them to easily relate notes to each other, and turns
>     them into 10x human beings.
>
>     - Paul
>
>
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