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Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck

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Post by boramalper »

akavel wrote: post #65
boramalper wrote: post #30

I used Typora https://typora.io/ > this year for my lecture notes and Notable lacks two crucial features that the former has: 1) LaTeX math support (i.e. MathJax). Being able to write inline formulas and using `align`, `table` etc. is a must in certain fields. 2) Notes in custom directory. Currently it seems that all your notes will be stored in your data directory, whereas I'd like to save my notes (and its assets)…

A similar WYSIWYG project I found recently, that is open-source: http://zettlr.com/ https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr

I’d love to have an open-source alternative to it, but I’m not sure if this has inline LaTeX support?

Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck

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Post by boramalper »

soulchild37 wrote: post #52
boramalper wrote: post #30

I used Typora https://typora.io/ > this year for my lecture notes and Notable lacks two crucial features that the former has: 1) LaTeX math support (i.e. MathJax). Being able to write inline formulas and using `align`, `table` etc. is a must in certain fields. 2) Notes in custom directory. Currently it seems that all your notes will be stored in your data directory, whereas I'd like to save my notes (and its assets)…

I used Typora too, its really great for writing note / blog post etc. My only gripe with it is that it doesn't have search / tagging function.

Indeed. It’s more like a document editor (like LO Writer, or MS Word) than a note-taking app.

Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck

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Post by akho »

fabiospampinato wrote: post #86
akho wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can tick those boxes with just a filesystem, a text editor, and grep. Except, maybe, Evernote import — no idea how that works.

Kind of, I see no good way of adding attachments to notes this way, and the moment a note belongs to 2 or more folders/tags the all thing falls apart.

Folders are notes (text+attachments), tags via grep.

Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck

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Post by cercatrova »

red_admiral wrote: post #70
krsdcbl wrote: post #62

I kinda don't get why people end up building electron apps to, essentially, "act like it's native". The app looks absolutely awesome, but i would have loved to just see it run in the browser, I'm kinda reluctant to install yet another memory-hog for basic tasks.

It's the closest you can reasonably get to truly cross-platform, and the buttons on notable very much don't look like "native" on my machine (win10). Yes I know about wxWidgets and so on but you still need to either distribute the runtime with each application separately, or risk "dll hell" if someone wants to run two programs with slightly different versions of some library. Personally I hope some day chrome comes w…

Fuchsia, Google's new OS, has an embedded Chrome option, so it'll act similar to Electron where you only need Chrome once on your computer.

Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck

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Post by djellis »

Very impressive.

I have very similar requirements in that, I want my personal notes stored in an accessible plain text format (such as markdown). These plain text files which are then able to be sync'd across machines.

I ended up editing note files in a dropbox directory using sublime with the MarkdownEditing and FindInProject packages.

This results in a very clean plain-text experience, which is high extensible.

Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck

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Post by avinassh »

fabiospampinato wrote: post #42
avinassh wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Btw I'm versioning my Notable notes and attachments (which Typora doesn't support) via git too, the data directory is just a regular directory. that is interesting. How does it handle sync and merge between git repositories?

The synchronization is taken care of by Dropbox and I'm only making commits from my laptop so I'm not really merging from other repos. Putting a git repo inside Dropbox is discouraged though as conflicts may arise. You could also for instance publish your data directory to github, accept PRs and everything else, as soon as the files on disk change Notable detects the changes and updates itself. I'm not sure if that a…

> Putting a git repo inside Dropbox is discouraged though as conflicts may arise.

I agree.

> I'm only making commits from my laptop so I'm not really merging from other repos.

if so, why are you using git?

btw I have been using this since past 3-4 days and it has been a real pleasure. I have grown to really like it. I write a lot of notes and I wanted to write about 2018. Ended writing a lot on Notable. Earlier I had my own tool written in qt. Your project gave me motivation and may be I should work on it again.

Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck

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Post by avinassh »

dnlsrl wrote: post #79

It's not as advanced as other apps mentioned around here, but a Markdown editor I like is called Ghostwriter https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/

looks slick! Wish it provided Mac builds. I will try to build on my own and try this
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