Fortunately in Linux more and more and more we have advanced applications to perform various tasks. In fact, many focused on business environments and others to facilitate productivity at home or in our lives. In this way, open-source applications arise to expand even more the catalog of possibilities in Linux.

For many people, it is important to take notes and Joplin is going to help them a lot. Joplin is an application to take notes and to-do lists. It is cross-platform because it is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is released under the MIT license so it is open source.

Joplin is presented to us as a program for advanced notes. Because it organizes them in the form of a “notebook”. That is to say, we can group them by themes facilitating the organization of the same ones. It allows synchronization to Nextcloud, Dropbox and OneDrive, which makes it very versatile.

An important aspect of Joplin is that it has mobile applications. Which allows you to take your notes anywhere. As you can see it’s a wonder.

Install Joplin on Linux

Joplin is available for Linux as AppImage. That is to say, a universal package that with assigning permissions of execution we will be able to execute it without problems. However, from the Github site of the project, we are told that it has been tested in Ubuntu, Fedora and Linux Mint. But there shouldn’t be any problems with it.

You can install it by running this command:

:~$ wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laurent22/joplin/master/Joplin_install_and_update.sh | bash

Basically what the command does is download an installation script and run it. The same script will take care of the installation of the program.

Remember that you can learn more about the wget command with our post.

The wget command.

Using Joplin a note-taking application

Once the installation is finished, you will be able to run it from the main menu.

Joplin is an application to take notes, so on its main screen the first thing we will see is the editing panel and next to the output of what we are writing. Another fundamental aspect of Joplin is that it renders Markdown, that is, if you are used to this way of writing, with Joplin you will not have problems either.

Also, in the toolbar you can create a new to-do or a new notebook for the notes. As well as some default notes that explain how the application works, for example, the first note we’ll see will be “Welcome to Joplin”.

Joplin has many customization options. From topics to more work-focused options. For example, we can set the language and how it will be exported to PDF. Because yes, we can export our notes to PDF format.

One of Joplin’s main strengths is synchronization with other services such as Nextcloud or OneDrive. So in the options, we can configure that synchronization.

And so there are many interesting things in Joplin like the ability to import notes from Evernote. And more.

For more information go to the github site of the project that has a good enough documentation to take advantage of this application.

Finally thank the developers for this fantastic tool and make it available to everyone.

Conclusion

Joplin is a tool that can greatly facilitate our productivity. What I have seen of the application has liked a lot: it is simple but with very good features such as synchronization with other services. We hope to hear more about it.

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Simplenote is a note-taking app from the creators of WordPress. It allows users to take text notes, categorize with tags and even share them with friends! Simplenote is a quite popular choice among the Linux community for being an open-source project. The tool can also keep your notes in-sync across the internet. Moreover, you can access all your notes via the Android and/or iOS app.

Why wait? Let’s get Simplenote today!

Getting Simplenote

Simplenote is available in multiple formats – native Linux app (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and OpenSUSE, Arch Linux) and snap (universal). You can also use Simplenote AppImage.

Follow the instructions according to your Linux distro and preference.

• Ubuntu/Debian

Get the latest DEB package of Simplenote.

Then, run the following commands –

cd ~/Downloads/

sudo dpkg -i Simplenote-linux-1.3.2-amd64.deb

sudo apt-get install -f

• Fedora/OpenSUSE

Get the latest RPM package of Simplenote.

Then, run the following commands –

# Fedora

sudo dnf install Simplenote-linux-1.3.2-amd64.rpm

# OpenSUSE

sudo zypper install Simplenote-linux-1.3.2-amd64.rpm

• Arch Linux

Make sure that your system is ready for grabbing the source and “base-devel” –

sudo pacman -S git base-devel

Get the latest AUR release of Simplenote –

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/simplenote-electron-bin.git

Start the building process –

cd simplenote-electron-bin/
makepkg -sri

• Snap

Run the following command for installing Simplenote –

sudo snap install simplenote

Using Simplenote

Start Simplenote –

At first, you have to login into your Simplenote account.

After the login is complete, enjoy your notes across all your devices!

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