Joplin Import - No folders, Broken links, Empty attributes #3175

patrioticprayer · 2024-12-09T19:42:54Z

Joplin 3.1.20 Flatpak Export3.zip

Expected behaviour

Note/Import/Import notes from Joplin importer didn't make one folder with two subfolders from attached zip file of Raw Joplin Export. The exported "Testing Note Apps" notebook contained two notebooks: Joplin (7 notes) and Logseq (13 notes). Three folders should have been created to replace the notebooks.
A prompt notifying the user that the import was complete would keep the user from shutting off the import process.
The internal back-links in the two notes "Reason for not using Joplin/Logseq" contain a ":" which breaks the linking to each other. Internal links should work.
Each note has many useless Joplin attributes which should be removed after import processing unless prompted to keep. The user would have to delete which would affect many notes requiring script knowledge.

Actual behaviour

No folders were made. All notes were imported into user-created/assigned folder.
No prompt indicating import was completed.
Internal links were broken by including ":".
Many undefined Joplin note attributes were placed on top of note.

Steps to reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

On a Linux Mint 22 Wilma (base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble) old 2012 machine install Flatpak Joplin 3.1.20.
Install Flatpak QOwnNotes 24.12.1 - GitHub - build 1143.
In Joplin right-click on notebook to export, select RAW - Joplin Export Directory, select directory to export files.
In QOwnNotes create subfolder to import files, select Note/Import//Import notes from Joplin importer, select directory just created, import notes. (Import folders option is faded out and not selected.)

Output from the debug section in the settings dialog

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QOwnNotes Debug Information ===========================

General Info

Current Date: Mon Dec 9 23:59:31 2024
Version: 24.12.1
Build date: Dec 5 2024
Build number: 1143
Platform: linux (xcb)
Operating System: KDE Flatpak runtime
Build architecture: x86_64
Current architecture: x86_64
Release: GitHub
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Qt Version (runtime): 5.15.10
Portable mode: no
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Server Info

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appIsValid: no
notesPathExists: empty
connectionErrorMessage: empty

Spellchecking

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Note folders

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Note folder `default`

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Cloud connections

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Enabled scripts

Script `Mermaid Diagrams`

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Relevant log output in the Log panel

(If this is needed, I'll provide later.)

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pbek · 2024-12-09T19:49:03Z

Thank you. I'll look into that.

patrioticprayer · 2024-12-10T04:54:55Z

Replace Joplin export method "RAW - Joplin Export Directory" with "MD - Markdown" and place the export files into QOwnNotes directory. Move the png files in the _resource folder to the Media folder and all the other files to the Attachments folder. Delete _resource folder and replace all links containing _resource in the path with "Attachments".

pbek · 2024-12-10T17:05:47Z

This is where the magic happens, if anyone wants to have a go at the code: https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/blob/main/src/dialogs/joplinimportdialog.cpp

patrioticprayer · 2024-12-10T21:51:35Z

So the code is in C++ which I would need to learn in order to work on the code. I've heard it's the most efficient programming language and the most popular after Python, the second most inefficient. Fortunately, there are a lot of free C++ compilers. Is this a good one? https://www.onlinegdb.com/online_c++_compiler

pbek · 2024-12-11T05:58:51Z

Depends on which platform you are on. Working with QtCreator is an easy choice...
See https://www.qownnotes.org/installation/building.html

pbek · 2024-12-11T06:12:39Z

If you have installed the Nix package manager, you can also do https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/blob/main/webpage/src/installation/building.md#building-with-nix.

patrioticprayer · 2024-12-11T19:52:54Z

I have Linux Mint package manager which has a QtCreator flatpak which is a big package for my dozen-year-old computer but I'll see how it goes. Thanks.

pbek · 2024-12-11T20:16:02Z

😅 Or you can go the nix route...

patrioticprayer · 2024-12-11T21:48:00Z

I've read from Arch users that NIX lacks documentation and Arch is easier! If that's the case, I'll stick with Linux Mint which is very lean on my old machine. 😉
Arch users used to be the best. I guess Nix users have replaced them.

pbek · 2024-12-12T05:52:06Z

I was just talking about nix, the package manager, not NixOS. I wouldn't want to work without nix and direnv, even on Ubuntu and Arch...

patrioticprayer · 2024-12-12T16:56:36Z

Linux Mint has Synaptic which is a very limited GUI version of the Nix package manager. I researched about Nix and it looks impressive. I know of the main developer of a new 2021 OS (CNIX) and he chose the NIXOS (not Nix package manager but Synaptic) for its simplicity and dependency resolution. Direnv is a shell extension to load/unload environment variables according to Direnv. I'm not yet advanced enough in Linux to know how to use these effectively. I prefer to use the native packages until I build up my knowledge in Linux. I just started in June. 😉
(UPDATED CNIX)

pbek · 2024-12-12T17:34:19Z

With nix you can create an environment with all tools, settings and even services for a project, like https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/blob/main/shell.nix.
With direnv you can load that environment automatically when you enter a directory and unload it when you leave it.

In the case of QOwnNotes, you just type just nix-build and the application is built, without you ever manually installing any compiler or library... Very handy.

pbek · 2024-12-12T17:34:43Z

I build up my knowledge in Linux. I just started in June. 😉

Great job! 💪🏻🚀

patrioticprayer · 2024-12-12T19:01:47Z

In the case of QOwnNotes, you just type just nix-build and the application is build, without you ever manually installing any compiler or library... Very handy.

Wow, that simplifies the process! I'm taking notes. 😉

pbek · 2024-12-23T14:35:10Z

Note/Import/Import notes from Joplin importer didn't make one folder with two subfolders from attached zip file of Raw Joplin Export. The exported "Testing Note Apps" notebook contained two notebooks: Joplin (7 notes) and Logseq (13 notes). Three folders should have been created to replace the notebooks.

These are the folders that were created for me:

Maybe that's an issue with the Flatpak version of QOwnNotes? 🤔 Have you tried the AppImage or something else?

pbek · 2024-12-23T14:36:38Z

A prompt notifying the user that the import was complete would keep the user from shutting off the import process.

How would a dialog after the import helping in users not closing the dialog before that?

pbek · 2024-12-23T15:19:41Z

The internal back-links in the two notes "Reason for not using Joplin/Logseq" contain a ":" which breaks the linking to each other. Internal links should work.

That's very hard to support, because the note names will be determined when the note file generated locally, so there is no way to know the name of the other note.

pbek · 2024-12-23T15:22:41Z

Each note has many useless Joplin attributes which should be removed after import processing unless prompted to keep. The user would have to delete which would affect many notes requiring script knowledge.

That's why they go into the frontmatter of the Markdown file. But just uncheck Metadata and they will not be imported.

patrioticprayer · 2024-12-23T18:41:20Z

Have you tried the AppImage or something else?

Unfortunately, I only tried the Flatpak version.

patrioticprayer · 2024-12-23T18:45:40Z

How would a dialog after the import helping in users not closing the dialog before that?

Good point. Then it's not needed but it would be nice to be notified when complete - just a nice touch.

patrioticprayer · 2024-12-23T18:48:40Z

This is great software and I appreciate your effort! I've been looking for note taking apps for months and have decided to go the database route instead of the file system route. MD notes saved via the file system seems more portable with easy access but gets slower with increasing note quantity and more prone to mishaps (broken links, orphan file names, duplicates, unprotected Metadata, etc.) compared to keeping in an open source database which exports MD.

pbek · 2024-12-23T20:16:02Z

Thank you.
I value not to be "vendor locked-in" (not even my own software) and portable, not even by some open source software, because even with an export you will always lose some data or structure.

patrioticprayer · 2024-12-23T21:00:54Z

You're absolutely right because I noticed with exports that some data always needs fixing and with a huge database it would become a very cumbersome, time-consuming fix. So if I go the file system route, the folders must contain fewer notes and more linkage to other folder notes so that I can open the folders seperately without slowing the software when involving thousands of notes. Good points.

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patrioticprayer added the Type: Support label Dec 9, 2024

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pbek changed the title ~~[BUG] Joplin Import - No folders, Broken links, Empty attributes~~ Joplin Import - No folders, Broken links, Empty attributes Dec 9, 2024

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Joplin Import - No folders, Broken links, Empty attributes #3175

Joplin Import - No folders, Broken links, Empty attributes #3175

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Expected behaviour

Actual behaviour

Steps to reproduce

Output from the debug section in the settings dialog

General Info

Server Info

Spellchecking

Note folders

Note folder default

Cloud connections

Cloud connection Default

Enabled scripts

Script Mermaid Diagrams

Settings

System environment

Relevant log output in the Log panel

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