Hey,
I’m using Joplin (a Markdown note taking app) and think about migrating to Logseq because of multiple reasons.
The main problems I have not yet solved:
- OSS-Syncing Logseq notes between Desktop OS and Android. Logseq does not have an OSS selfhostable sync-server like Joplin has…
- Making sure to transform my stuff, so that Logseq can work with it. Yes, it’s both Markdown, but especially images and how Joplin handles them seem to be a problem for this migration.
What are your experiences? Have you ever switched between 2 Markdown note taking apps?
- Which ones?
- How well went it?
Is it maybe even possible to use app 1 and a Desktop OS and a totally different app on Android simultaneously on the same data? The common standard is Markdown…
Have you tried to open a joplin .MD file in a plain text editor? That is not markdown. Its markdown wrapped into some Joplin format.
Can it really be migrated 1:1 to another app?
Joplin’s notes can easily be exported as standard markdown (File | Export All | Markdown).
When I was evaluating Joplin and Obsidian for my notes, I switched between them multiple times and it was very easy. The folder of markdown files exported from joplin can be opened directly as an obsidian vault. The only issue is if you had resized any images with Joplin’s rich text editor (doing that converts the images to html img src tags, but that was easily fixed with a script to convert them back to markdown links)
I can’t say whether it can be cleanly migrated to another app but there are a number of export options to get you either to plain Markdown or something else within reason. When using the export option, the resulting Markdown at lest gives relative paths to any included media.
I don’t think it’s fair to suggest it’s not using Markdown. It just has a wrapper around it to make it work better for the usual use case of being a digital workbook.
OP have a look at “Jimmy”, it might be what you’re looking for: https://marph91.github.io/jimmy/formats/joplin/ ( https://github.com/marph91/jimmy )