joplin-vieweb

A simple web viewer for Joplin notes.

Purpose

I'm going to use Joplin as a notes application.
It's a long time I wanted for something like Joplin: opensource, not coupled to a web giant, and without infinite storage: storage has a price, we should pay for it.

Joplin-vieweb purpose is to provide an online view of my Joplin notes.
It's running on a "Django server", running beside Joplin terminal app.

Screenshot

Features and not(-yet?) features

Yes it does ❤

• Protect joplin-vieweb access by login
• Display notebooks, and notes
  • images
  • attachments
• code syntax highlight
• Add a table of content if note contains headers
• Display tags, and notes linked.
• Joplin sync:
  • 
  • Background periodic joplin sync
  • Manual trigged sync, with notebooks and tag refresh
• Public link if note has public tag
  
• Option to number (or not) header in notes:
  
• Tag edition: add / remove / create tags in notes: Once tags edited, a little reminder not to forget to synchronize Joplin:
  
• Checkbox list changes can be saved to notes.
• 
• Note edition / deletion, with support of image paste, and image / attachment drag&drop.

• Note creation
• Notebook edition: create / rename / delete
• Notes history: list of the latest notes consulted, to be able to open them quickly, or pin them:
• Tabs in notes (not displayed in joplin applications). Syntax here.
• Hyperlink preview in notes, on mouse hover:

No it doesn't (yet?) 💔

• Sort notebooks nor notes
• Move note or notebook from one notebook to another.
• No specific handling for todos.
• Search for notes or tags

Installation / configuration instructions

! Only linux systems are supported
! Only arm64 and amd64 architectures
! For raspberry users (I am): use 64 bits OS

Installation

Installation is done with docker-compose. The default docker-compose file installs a nginx server with certbot certificates mechanisms, and listens to ports 80 and 443.
If you have your own server, use docker-compose-joplin-only.yml. Have a look to the containers.

• Prerequisites: your linux system has docker and docker-compose installed
• Enable docker service at system startup
• Get docker-compose.yml (either you clone this git repo, or you copy the file somewhere)
• Edit the 3 variables (x-common-variables block) at the top of docker-compose file:
  • ORIGINS: write the domain and/or IP address (only those origins are allowed to access joplin-vieweb)
    Exemple:

    x-common-variables: &common-variables
        ORIGINS: "'http://localhost:8080', 'http://192.168.21.1:8080'"
    

    or

    x-common-variables: &common-variables
        ORIGINS: "'https://your_domain.com', 'https://12.34.56.78'"
        CERT_DOMAIN: your_domain.com 
        CERT_MAIL: you@zaclys.net
    

  • If you use nginx and certbot containers:
    • CERT_DOMAIN: your domain so let's encrypt can contact (IP address doesn't work: you need a domain)
    • CERT_MAIL: a mail needed by let's encrypt.
  • If you don't use nginx ans certbot container (if you use docker-compose-joplin-only.yml):
    • Change <PORT-TO-YOUR-PROXY> to fit your proxy setup.
• And "run"

sudo systemctl enable docker
cd ~
mkdir joplin-vieweb
cd joplin-vieweb
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joplin-vieweb/joplin-vieweb/main/docker-compose.yml
vi docker-compose.yml # edit the x-common-variables (3 variables)
sudo docker-compose up

Congratulation, the server is running. If the system reboots, the server will start automatically (since we enabled docker.service at startup and the services in odcker-compose are set as "restart")

Upgrade

When a new version is available, simply go to your docker-compose file:

sudo docker-compose down
sudo docker-compose pull
sudo docker-compose up

Configuration

Users

First you must change admin password:

• login to https://your_domain.com/admin/ (login: admin / password: admin)
• Change the admin password:
  
• If you want to login to joplin-vieweb with another login than admin: create a user:
  
• Now you can logout and visit https://your_domain.com/joplin
  
• Login with admin or your newly created user:
  

Synchronisation

You should configure a synchronisation to secure your notes:

1️⃣ Click the settings tab
2️⃣ Input synchronisation data (only next cloud is supported for now, if you would like other services, ask in a conversation)
3️⃣ Test
4️⃣ If test result is OK: save

If your cloud already contains joplin content, do a synchronisation:

1️⃣ Click the synchronisation tab
2️⃣ click the sync button
3️⃣ Wait for the sync to finish (it may take a long time depending on your cloud content)

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