#joplin

#Joplin update woes: I don't use Joplin on the desktop as much as on the phone, which means that I had neglected updating the desktop version (AppImage; yes, Linux) for some time. Today I finally did open it, and saw several notes being un-encryptable. Okay, time to update, I guess. Only problem turned out to be that version 3.5.11 and 3.5.13 (the two I tried) don't load properly: the app only shows a grey rectangle with a half menubar that doesn't respond to button presses. So I tried to get back to version 3.4.x. Nope, can't do, the profile is too new. So version 3.5.x did do something: update the profile and prevent me from opening an older version. What finally solved it was to restore $HOME/.config/Joplin and $HOME/.config/joplin-desktop from backup, and run version 3.4.10. The app opens, and all notes decrypt properly. I still don't dare trying to run 3.5.x again - it would probably require another restore from backup in order to get back to 3.4.x again. As an aside, I did learn that backintime backups of softlinks can get you to the live version of a file rather than the backed up version. Which is why my 2 week old backup looked like it contained files that had been updated 43 minutes ago - those files weren't the backed up files, but the live ones. #TimjanGrumpsOnComputers

In all other news I'm looking at switching to #KleverNote over from #Joplin for Markdown-based #notes simply because it may be lighter on system resources. I am aware that Joplin is #Electron-based, and unfortunately, Electron-based apps are not the best when it comes to resource usage. At least, doing a quick RAM usage test between the two shows that KleverNote, in my test case, used almost half of the RAM Joplin used, but that was just looking at System Monitor's memory usage for the two. Maybe it's because I didn't have as many notes as compared to Joplin, but unless there's something huge going on, I doubt that KleverNote would use the same amount of memory Joplin does when it has the same notes. Anyways, we'll see how it works out! 😄