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When comparing CintaNotes vs Joplin, the Slant community recommends Joplin for most people. In the question“What are the best offline note-taking apps for Windows?” Joplin is ranked 10th while CintaNotes is ranked 18th.
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Pros
Pro Automatic link capture
CintaNotes automatically captures links from webpages and local documents, so you can quickly go back to the note's source.
Pro Clips text from any application that works with the clipboard
Create notes by clipping text from any application that works with the system clipboard. Just select the text and press CTRL+F12.
Pro Quick and performant
The program rarely crashes and is extremely quick.
Pro Advanced search
You can search your notes by titles, fields, text, links etc.
Pro Hierarchical tags
Notes in CintaNotes are organized into a crystal clear hierarchy tags. A hierarchy consists of 2 or more tags where the top tags is a parent tag and the one at the bottom is a child tag. This makes it easy to find your notes.
Pro Attach files to notes
CintaNotes stores all attachments in the notebook file so you can remove the original file after it's been attached.
Pro Password protection of separate notebooks
If you want to keep your notes private you can encrypt notebooks with sensitive data using AES-256 algorithm.
Pro User friendly interface
The app is really easy to use and the interface is extremely simple.
Pro Separate notes through sections
Notes are organized into sections or tabs. This is done to keep notes on the same topic separate while still having them in one notebook file.
Pro Advanced synchronization options
CintaNotes can be synchronized with Simplenote or Dropbox. The first option makes you notes available on mobile devices via the Simplenote app and the second one allows you to share you notebooks with other people.
Pro Offline access
Pro Open source
Peace of mind that there is no malicious piece of software in the app.
Pro Encryption
Pro Cross-platform
Supports Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.
Pro Supports file attachments
Pro Supports markdown
Pro Supports tags for notes
Pro Web Clipper
Browser extension saves full pages, clean content, or screen selections to new notes.
Pro Optional CLI interface
Provides a CLI interface for terminal lovers.
Pro Supports multiple languages
English, French, and Spanish, Italian, German, Czech and many others.
Pro Active user forum with support from app creators
Support, troubleshooting, and new feature requests are easy to make at the user forum and you can contact the app creator directly.
Pro Dropbox support
Can sync using Dropbox.
Pro Nextcloud support
Pro Timed alarm reminder for to-do lists
Cons
Con No Markdown support
Can't store, edit or export notes in Markdown, the program uses "RTF (in editor) + Internal format (for its database) + HTML (export)" instead. More info on the issue tracker.
Con No Apple support
You can't use the app on MAC computers and Apple mobile devices,
Con No mobile version
You can't use the app on you mobile platforms such as Android. But you can use the third-party solution "Simplenote" for syncing your CintaNotes data to mobile platforms.
Con Sync issues with Android
If update on Linux then sync on Android, sometimes the Android sync will duplicate or remove some journal notes. Seems to be a bug in the Android app. The Linux app alone without sync with Android seems to work well using Dropbox. But don't expect changes you make on Android to sync properly back to Linux.
Con Sync issue under Linux
The Linux client has a bug that requires the user to click the mouse frequently in order for sync to proceed. This bug has been open for a while.
Con Gargantuan memory footprint
1GB+ of memory for taking notes.
Con Old school interface
Con Bloated
This project is suffering from feature creep and uses a lot of memory for a note-taking app.
Con App Image launches very slowly
On Linux, you can only install via App Image, which take 5+ seconds to launch. I can launch LibreOffice in under two seconds.
Con Sync issues on Windows
No way to change account settings and sync easily corrupted.
Con Weak tag searching
Joplin can currently only search for a single tag at a time. None of the boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) are available for use in searches. This greatly diminishes the usefulness of tags in Joplin.
Con Can't create tags from the mobile app
