[kwlug-disc] Documenting your digital life

[Scott King]

Long time lurker also.

I used to use Bear on iOS, which was nice but heavily coupled to Apple’s ecosystem. (Didn’t have control of where files were stored).

I switched about 2 years ago to Typora, which is quite nice and simple. It’s also markdown forward, and has a “render” mode that shows the formatting of the markdown as it’s parsed. No cloud storage built in, but since it allows you to open folders, it’s a worthy companion for work and personal, since I can point is to the cloud folder of my choice.

Scott King

On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM, CrankyOldBugger <[crankyoldbugger at gmail.com](mailto:On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM, CrankyOldBugger <<a href=)> wrote:

> I was looking at Joplin the other day and saw that it had NextCloud integration, so yay.. but when I looked into it further, I found that they removed Joplin from NextCloud a few versions ago. It's no longer offered.
>
> So while Joplin looks nice, my search for something NextCloud integrated still continues..
>
> On Fri, 23 May 2025 at 16:41, Nelson F < nelsonjfr at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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