[Snitch-Thursday]

I use the multimedia and handwriting touch capabilities of my tablets and phones. Since Joplin does not have handwriting support, nor image embeds, nor file embeds. This is not to single out that tool, since most cross-platform notetaking applications have the same problem or a similar permutation.

I choose to be stuck with OneNote 2010 because:

1. It has local files I can back up and sync, no cloud account or online requirement (also more privacy from cloud scanning)

1. It supports embedding files so I can back up the notebooks and not have to go find every file scattered all throughout my hard drive in order to make those up two

1. I can hand write and have text be searched or OCRed

1. It has embedding support for images and audio and have them be interactive (you can see the image, play the video, listen to the sound right in the program)

Writing such a program is a very difficult problem. If it were easy, we would be having all of these features and not just another round of markdown text file editors.

Xournal++ is considering moving to a file format that would enable you to embed files that would be zipped up as part of the file format, since it already supports handwriting recognition and has basic text and good enough image display, I continued to watch it to see if it can take over my onenote use cases, but it's just not there yet.

[stavros]

What do you mean by image/file embeds? You can embed images and files just fine.

[INeedMoreRam]

I’m able to embed images into the Joplin app - not sure how long ago you tried?