🛸 📁 Your notes are about to land: Joplin progresses on filesystem mirror
🛸 📁 Your notes are about to land: Joplin progresses on filesystem mirror
🛸 📁 Your notes are about to land: Joplin progresses on filesystem mirror
In proposed PR Joplin creates a folder mirroring your notes as plain text files and notebooks as (sub)folders
To learn and more and watch the progress subscribe to the PR: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/pull/10448
This would make me switch back from obsidian
That's pretty much what I wanted from this. Time to try it out again once its ready. Is there a reason the app couldn't just store notes in plain text as a standard? Sorry if that is a silly question, haven't used Joplin much.
The answer why Joplin actually shouldn't rely on filesystem as its source of truth is twofold: Search and scalability
Joplin can handle hundreds of thousands of notes and the search is pretty much instant. Relying on filesystem would defeat both of these features
Ah, I see. Didn't think of it on that scale, makes sense. Thanks!
I... kinda want this? The big issue for me is that I like to keep my notes encrypted, if this could work with Cryptomator I would be a happy fish.
Could you expand how it supposed to work from user standpoint? The notes are encrypted on your local PC but also in plain text? I can't understand how it's usually done
Btw right now Joplin got e2e encryption for server but local db is completely unencrypted. The consensus in the community is that "you can't truly hide keys on compromised device". Basically there's too much work tbd for too little added security. Is it a false notion in your opinion?
Sure, I'll detail a little how Cryptomator works, I'm sorry in advance if I'm being excessive.
The app creates a vault that encrypts all your files, one by one. To access your vault you must open it with your password. Your vault will then behave as a drive, and it will be mounted on your file system. So you can just put files in this "drive" as you normally would. For an app like Joplin or Obsidian, you just point those to use this drive instead of the usual one. The encryption is transparent, the only thing you have to worry is to be sure you're saving on your Cryptomator drive.
The thing here is not much about protecting my files on my computer, and I totally agree with your statement about the compromised machine. The value here for me is to be able to use Onedrive and save my files there encrypted, without Microsoft or any third party being able to snoop those there. The biggest issue here is that, while it's easy to share files between computers and even the iPhone, it's harder to do on Android, because Cryptomator cannot mount a vault like a desktop would - at least not yet. So, either Joplin would have to implement a solution, or Cryptomator should get its shit together and implement the mount system.