Part 2: How I moved the rest of my 41,000 notes from CherryTree to a self-hosted Joplin Server in five batches, caught a silent import bug that dropped 88 pictures, froze the originals, and decided which private notes to keep out.
Part 1: CherryTree has no tablet app, so I moved 46,000 notes to Joplin with my own sync server at home. Here’s how I planned it, converted everything, proved nothing was lost, and got my tablets syncing, plus the pitfalls that cost me the most time.
For years I wrote every course note, certification study guide and project log in CherryTree, a free note-taking app for desktop computers. By this year it held about 46,000 pages. Then I bought a tablet to study from, and hit a wall: CherryTree has no app for iPad or Android. My notes were stuck on one computer. So I moved everything to Joplin, a free notes app that works on computers, phones and tablets.
Rebuilding the four-track browser drum machine I built as a freeCodeCamp deliverable, and actually used to practice guitar against, gets a real audit and a v2 rebuild.
Taking charge of your digital afterlife—by organizing virtual assets, accounts, and passwords—can safeguard precious memories and spare your loved ones unnecessary stress.
You’ve got a video with no narration and a script you want timed to specific moments on screen. Here’s the whole path from nothing to a finished, muxed file — one terminal, zero paid tools.