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Show HN: Zonote – Sticky notes with Markdown and Tabs, all in one .txt file

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Re: Show HN: Zonote – Sticky notes with Markdown and Tabs, all in one .txt file

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Post by codazoda »

zonetti wrote: post #10
em500 wrote: post #9

Have you considered packaging this as a Chrome extension rather than an electron app? AFAICT this is about 80KB of uncompressed html+css+js, released as a colossal 192MB electron app. Sorry to sound all get-off-my-lawn but that seems a tad excessive for a note taker.

I have thought about an eventual web version but more as a visualization tool for sharing files over the internet. The idea was to be an offline-first app for privacy reasons, but I'll take a look at the file system support in the browser extension API, it might be a more accessible alternative.

Have a look at https://100r.co for an example of how they do offline-first html only web apps. DotGrid is a very interesting example.

Re: Show HN: Zonote – Sticky notes with Markdown and Tabs, all in one .txt file

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Post by mxuribe »

zonetti wrote: post #7
mxuribe wrote: post #4

Looks very interesting and quite snazzy! But...how do i install it, what are the dependencies, etc.? The little video/animated gif is nice for showing the features...but how do i run the thing? (I'm sure i'm missing something here.)

I'm sorry, I will add some instructions on the readme file. Right now you can download it from the release page ( https://github.com/zonetti/zonote/releases/latest ). Then all you have to do is to extract and run the binary.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Zonote – Sticky notes with Markdown and Tabs, all in one .txt file

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Post by o-o-o »

epaga wrote: post #2

Very, VERY cool - this reminds me of an app I made (primarily for myself) years ago called Mindscope https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mindscope-thought-organizer/id... (but Zonote comes with Markdown built in which is way cool) The main thing missing for me in Zonote would be hierarchical links between entries/tabs...or is there already a way to do that?

I used to use this app all the time! The links between mindmaps/pages was an interesting idea I haven’t really seen replicated anywhere.
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