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Show HN: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Re: Show HN: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Quiver is a Mac app that helps programmers take notes. Its unique cell-based design makes it easy to mix text and code in one note.

I built Quiver to scratch my own itch. I have tried numerous code snippet managers over the years, but they all missed one crucial point: it's not just code that you want to store. Usually you want to mix code snippets with comments, images, and links. Nothing out there was able to do that. That's why I built Quiver.

Now Quiver 2.0 is out. This major update comes with cloud syncing, shared notebooks, Markdown preview, presentation mode, and more. With this new version Quiver is no longer just for a single user, but for team collaboration as well. You can use a shared notebook as a shared knowledge base in your company.

You can find more information about Quiver here: http://happenapps.com/#quiver

A free trial version is here: http://happenapps.com/downloads/QuiverFreeTrial.zip

Re: Show HN: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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lfuller wrote: post #4

How is this different from Evernote? I use Evernote for this exact purpose using their notebooks and tags. The UI looks to be based on it as well.

You can't do syntax highlighting in Evernote. If you do syntax highlighting with another tool, then copy into Evernote, you won't be able to edit it again. That's the main reason I couldn't use Evernote for programming notes.

Quiver's code cells use the ACE editor (http://ace.c9.io/), which is a real code editor with syntax highlighting support for over 110 languages, 20+ themes, auto indent and outdent, etc.

Re: Show HN: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by vowelless »

ylian wrote: post #6
lfuller wrote: post #4

How is this different from Evernote? I use Evernote for this exact purpose using their notebooks and tags. The UI looks to be based on it as well.

Also, Evernote doesn't have Markdown support. Quiver has Markdown cells and live Markdown preview.

http://marxi.co/ seems pretty useful.

Re: Show HN: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by ylian »

spdegabrielle wrote: post #9

Nice. Any chance of a windows version?

Unfortunately I am not a Windows programmer. But Quiver uses a simple JSON format for notebooks and notes, as documented here: https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki/Quiver-Data-Format

So anyone with the right skills can take Quiver's design and format, and make a similar app for Windows. I wouldn't mind at all.

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