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๐Ÿ›ธ ๐Ÿ“ 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

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[โ€“] graphito@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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