Joplin is a free, open source note-taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. You can search your notes, copy them, tag them and modify them either from the app itself or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format, which is great.

It was created by Laurent Cozic 🇫🇷, back in 2016 as an alternative to Evernote. Its cloud service is hosted in Paris, France. They focus on privacy, security and transparency.

It’s open source and offline-first, so you can always access your data on the device, even when you’re not connected to the internet.

It’s got all the basics you’d expect, and you can also attach images, videos, audio files and PDFs to your notebooks.

There’s a huge community of people who have made extra features possible with their plugins.

It’s also super easy to export and import your files, which is great if you’re worried about vendor lock-in.

The handy web clipper extension lets you save web pages or take screenshots in the browser and save them to your notes.

We found a really interesting interview with Laurent Cozic about the product philosophy behind Joplin, where he talks about why he chose to make Joplin open source, the focus on privacy and security, and what the future might hold for Joplin.

He also talks about how he uses Joplin for work and for personal use, and he has some recommendations for people who are just starting out with it.

You can read the interview here:

https://nesslabs.com/joplin-featured-tool

A last thing… Laurent works a lot on this project, and… for free! 👏

So if you’d like to send a donation to the project, you can do so here: https://joplinapp.org/donate (they accept Bank Transfer, PayPal, Patreon, Liberaply and Github Sponsor).

…or you can consider rating the app on Google Play or App Store. 🙂

Check all the features in their website:
https://joplinapp.org

Follow them on Mastodon: @joplinapp