I used to use a split between Joplin and Obsidian — Obsidian was primarily used for more formal notes, while Joplin held my more informal and ephemeral notes. I became increasingly frustrated with Joplin — it felt bloated, overcomplicated, and really wasn't the prettiest thing to look at. I used to use an iPhone, so, to get notes to sync to my device with Obsidian, I would've had to pay for Obsidian Sync, which I didn't want to do, so I stayed with Joplin synced to my Nextcloud. But, later, I moved to an Android phone, so I was then able to hook up Syncthing to start syncing my notes between my phone and my other devices nicely. So, I have since moved all my notes from Joplin to Obsidian, and I have had no issues. I wish Obsidian were open source, but, regardless, it is a great piece of software.
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I started with Cornell NTS ages ago by hand, then the volume of my notes necessarily expanded and the moment I learned there was a native app (MacOS) that supported wiki-style formatting and paired it all up with the Zettelkasten concept, I was hooked.
You just brought back some unpleasant memories from high school English
The teacher insisted we take Cornell notes
I couldn't stand how they were organized, i was/am crap at taking notes during a lecture, and I didn't need them. I'm very good at remembering information from lectures
Oh man that’s awful. The best note system is the note system one actually uses. I had no idea how to take adequate notes until I “discovered” Cornell NTS during my second or third college attempt.