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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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    Shimitar@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s the point: that is not markdown file. Most of the text is markdown, but try editing it with a different editor …
    
    Try back and forth between md editors…
    
    You end up with a mess. I want md for interoperability, and this is not good.
    
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