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TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ronmaide@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So—I will preface this by saying I’d also love for an alternative to Nextcloud that’s faster and more reliable.

  For the combo of FileBrowser and Joplin—I used Joplin a bunch in the past so I’m relatively familiar with it, but it’s also been a while and things may have changed—how is it syncing? I seem to remember hooking it up through WebDAV to sync—is that (still?) the case? If so, does that mean that FileBrowser is also exposing a WebDAV server in addition to the HTTP server? Is FileBrowser doing any cross-device syncing at all, or is it as it appears on the surface—just exposing a folder via a URL that you can send/retrieve files from?

  The one thing I’d caution with Joplin, and what ultimately pushed me away from it was the portability of the data within it—I didn’t love that I wasn’t ultimately just working with a folder of Markdown, which led me to Obsidian—but don’t let my preferences dissuade you—the best system is the one that works for you—just more of a heads up since at least a few years back the export process was a bit of a pain to get things in a “vanilla” state.

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  • TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Joplin, and what ultimately pushed me away from it was the portability of the data within it—I didn’t love that I wasn’t ultimately just working with a folder of Markdown

    I believe you did miss something, Joplin “stores notes in Markdown format. Markdown is a simple way to format text that looks great on any device and, while it’s formatted text, it still looks perfectly readable in a plain text editor.” Source: joplinapp.org/help/apps/rich_text_editor/

    You have have a bunch of options when it comes to synchronization:

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    You can just point it at some folder and it will store the files there and then sync it with any 3rd party solution you would like. I personally use WebDav because it’s more convenient (iOS support) and it’s very easy to get a Nginx instance to serve what it needs:

    server {
        listen 443 ssl http2;
        server_name  xyz.example.org;
        ssl_certificate ....;
        ssl_certificate_key ...;
        root /mnt/SSD1/web/root;
    
       # Set your password with: WebDAV htpasswd -c /etc/nginx/.credentials-dav.list YOUR_USERNAME
        location /dav/notes {
    	alias /mnt/SSD1/web/dav/notes;
            auth_basic              realm_name;
            auth_basic_user_file    /etc/nginx/.credentials-dav.list;
            dav_methods     PUT DELETE MKCOL COPY MOVE;
            dav_ext_methods PROPFIND OPTIONS;
            dav_access      user:rw;
            client_max_body_size    0;
            create_full_put_path    on;
        }
    

    I was already using Nginx as a reverse proxy / SSL termination for FileBrowser so it was just a couple of lines to get it running a WebDAV share for Joplin.

    Is FileBrowser doing any cross-device syncing at all, or is it as it appears on the surface

    FileBrowser doesn’t do cross-device syncing and that’s the point, I don’t ever want it doing it. For sync I use Syncthing, I just run both on my NAS and have them pointed at the same folder. All of my devices run Syncthing and sync their data with the NAS so this way I can have the NAS working as a central repository and everything is available through FileBrowser.

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    • Shimitar@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nope, Joplin saves as .md files but those are clearly NOT markdown. I switched after I got burned.

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      • TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Except for the metadata at the bottom, looks a LOT like markdown to me…

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