The desktop apps miss this feature, leading to a cognitive gap when switching between mobile and desktop.

Mobile app doesn’t have “pull to refresh” feature.

Desktop app is slow even in rendering the preview of the notes.

It doesn’t have a highlight feature as in Evernote.

Had to go in and edit many of the imported notes.

Biggest negative for me is that the user experience of the apps is not very appealing like Evernote.

Joplin comes with a web clipper equivalent to Evernote.

I can link to other notes with Joplin, which means I can create a wiki within Joplin.

Joplin can support Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.

I imported around 2000 notes from Evernote.

You can import all your notes from Evernote.

Search in the desktop app is reasonably fast and accurate.

So even if Joplin vanishes, I will still have access to my notes.

It stores everything locally in text files.

It has almost all the features of Evernote that I care - notebooks, notes, tags, images, web clipping, sync, and apps for multi-platform.

Here are some of the positives and negatives of Joplin. In Joplin, I might have found the application to replace Evernote finally. I have been using Joplin for a week now diving deep into all the features it has-including its terminal application. Joplin is the first application that ticks every expectation I have. Recently, I came across an interesting open-source application called Joplin. Even after all these years, Evernote is still the undisputed king of note-taking. I searched far and wide and tried many of the “coolest” apps.

It should have browser integration so I can clip interesting webpages.

It would be a bonus if it stored data in plaintext because text format will stay for decades.

If an app becomes my external brain, I better have access to the data all the time and have a backup too.

It should work on Mac, Android, and Linux, the platforms I use.

My expectations are simple (at least I like to think so): I can use Evernote even under Linux, using a 3rd party application.Įver since the future of Evernote became uncertain, I started looking for an alternative.

I can email note, I can send an article from Pocket, and I can clip a webpage from Firefox.

With about 2000 notes, it serves as my external brain.Įvernote has a fantastic ecosystem. It has notes from all the books I have read, best paras from the articles I liked, and even reasons for investing in specific stocks. I have been using Evernote for close to a decade now.

Highlight notes in evernote desktop