joplin-cli mit Homebrew, Nix, chocolatey, scoop, winget installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• joplin

Projektgeschichte

Laurent Cozic described starting work in 2016 after finding that commercial note applications made notes, attachments, and tags hard to export or manipulate with other tools. He first built a simple mobile and terminal application with sync capabilities, and the desktop application followed as the project expanded.

The public repository was created on GitHub in January 2017 and the project site identifies Joplin as open source software with apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, and a terminal application. The terminal documentation presents the CLI as a full note and to-do application able to import Evernote ENEX data, use Markdown, and synchronize through file-system, Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, WebDAV, and other targets.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Joplin's adoption is unusually broad for a CLI-associated note tool: by July 1, 2026 the same upstream project served graphical users, mobile users, web clipper users, Joplin Cloud users, and terminal users. Homebrew packages the terminal client separately as joplin-cli, while other package managers in the input record expose either the terminal app or the broader Joplin application family.

The terminal client also has package-nerd appeal because it keeps personal notes scriptable. It lets Unix users combine encrypted synchronized notes with external editors, backups, shell workflows, and plain-file inspection rather than locking all usage behind a desktop UI.

Wie es verwendet wird

The documented installation path for the terminal app is an npm global install that exposes the joplin command. Typical use is managing notebooks, notes, tags, synchronization, import/export, and editing note bodies from a preferred text editor.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Joplin CLI sits at the intersection of tools-for-thought culture and Unix packaging culture: it is a serious cross-platform note system that still exposes a first-class terminal workflow. For package maintainers, the split Homebrew formula is significant because it lets users install the lighter command-line client without treating the Electron desktop app as the only official surface.

Zeitleiste

• 2016: Laurent Cozic began building Joplin after evaluating commercial note applications.
• 2017: The laurent22/joplin repository was created on GitHub.
• 2021: Joplin Cloud and Joplin Server broadened the sync and sharing story beyond third-party sync targets.
• 2026-07-01: The project site described Joplin as available on desktop, mobile, and terminal platforms.

Related projects

• Joplin's related surfaces include the Joplin desktop and mobile apps, the browser web clipper, Joplin Server, and Joplin Cloud. Its import path from Evernote ENEX and its Markdown storage model also make it part of the broader migration ecosystem around Evernote alternatives, Markdown note vaults, and self-hosted sync.

Quellen

• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/joplin-cli
• https://github.com/laurent22/joplin
• https://joplinapp.org/
• https://joplinapp.org/help/apps/terminal/
• https://opensource.com/article/22/9/joplin-interview