What’s the shortcoming in iOS that has spawned a million notes clones
It can't handle anything resembling a large note, and can't link to other notes meaningfully.
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#12You maybe want to check the trademarks for this name, there are some for it. Not that this must become a problem, but it's better to avoid potential problems early. Besides that, SQLite seems promising, but not sure how exactly this relates to everything. The website is talking about saving in browser, and there is no release on the GitHub. Is this something running in browser only?
Yes, the first thing I thought was, “Tomb Raider”!
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#13I thought this was similar ot Tiddlywiki[0], but then I saw all the LLM integration stuff.
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#14What’s the shortcoming in iOS that has spawned a million notes clones
I mean the obvious one is cross platform support? People who don't want or have an icloud account?
Contrary to your belief there are still people out there living outside the apple bubble.
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#15Some questions: 1. How to use extensions? I can create one (it looks like a javascript function getting some context and one argument) but I have no idea how to invoke it. I expected to be able to invoke them on selected text. 2. Does it sync on other computers / browsers or is it only local?
It seems you’d need to handle sync by pointing your database at a local path and sharing that path through some cloud option.
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#16As a heads up, this seems to break completely if any of a couple of different Chrome extensions I have are enabled (for example, Simplify - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/simplify-copilot-au...).
Also, maybe it's just me, but I feel like the sqlite-based thing is, if anything, kind of a downside. Use it for caching and calculation, sure, but I want the source of truth to be just plain markdown files I can take into other apps in 5 years when whatever I'm using now inevitably dies.
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#17I’ve been keeping an eye on these open source block based apps, and this kind of feels like you set out to scratch your itch and managed to release the most feature complete and polished one out there. Well done!
Something about SQLite at the core just seems to drive a direction I like, and pushes an open ethos. (Shout outs to Grist in this arena as well.) So much power in such simple interfaces… and when I saw you could just drop in your own SQL into Eidos, I shed a tear at the graveyard of my never-quite-working attempts at data-fying Obsidian.
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#18What’s the shortcoming in iOS that has spawned a million notes clones
Yes, much like the shortcomings of Windows 95 that spawned a million Notepad clones in the form of IDEs, code-oriented editors, and Office (née Works?)-like suites.
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#19This appears to be using a version of babel that allows ACE FYI.
@babel/traverse https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-67hx-6x53-jw92
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#20Very nice work Do you mind elaborating on how this differs from “outline” and “anytype”? I think a comparison table on the website on how this solution differentiates itself from competitors is going to be helpful. Also, what’s going to be the pricing model?