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Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by indigodaddy » Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 8:48 AM UTC

jeanaimarre wrote: post #121

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #104

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so it's a note taking app that lacks any of the privacy features? Wordpress too lets me safe drafts and leaves it up to me whether I ever publish them. I wouldn't call wordpress a "note taking app". it's not a note-taking app if it sends everything to your servers. And it's a shame there is not a single word on security/privacy: how is data protected at rest? your password hashes salted? what is saved client-side vs…

Your feedback would have more value if it was not presented in such a harsh form. fyi.

I love how the creator just rolls with the adverse-like feedback though! Seems like a cool dude!

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by underdeserver » Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 8:51 AM UTC

I like that the business plan is made clear.

Not explaining how they make money is one of the top reasons I won't use a "free" service.

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by indigodaddy » Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 8:58 AM UTC

Mr_Sweater wrote: post #139

listed.to has done a similar thing for awhile leveraging Standard Notes[1] to give you a note taking and pseudo cms. I kind of hate that they bury it, SN is lovely and very simple to use. [1] - https://standardnotes.org/

Listed.to seems really cool as well

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by cueo » Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 8:59 AM UTC

alecrosa wrote: post #147

kwhitefoot wrote: post #146

I wish the title had make it clear that this is Apple only.

And web

Any plan for Android? Also, native desktop (Mac / Windows) app?

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by vonquant » Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 9:09 AM UTC

vonquant wrote: post #149

alecrosa wrote: post #2

Less than a month ago I decided to build an app for myself to solve a very specific problem: “I want to be able to take notes on my phone, share some of them online, and publish a few on my personal blog — oh, an I also want an API!” I built this is because no tool out there satisfied my needs: - Notion had no native app so it's very slow to use on mobile. Plus is too general. - Medium is a disaster for readers, they…

Hey, this looks great. One thing you might want to consider is having one domain for a website about collectednotes (collectednotes.com) and another for hosting user's blogs (collectednotes.blog for example) because it is currently not clear what urls are official and made by you and which are just blogs made by anyone. For example, https://collectednotes.com/accounts/ is genuine and made by you whilst https://collec…

On second thoughts, using a sub domain would make way more sense.

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by rochak » Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 9:18 AM UTC

vonquant wrote: post #155

vonquant wrote: post #149

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Hey, this looks great. One thing you might want to consider is having one domain for a website about collectednotes (collectednotes.com) and another for hosting user's blogs (collectednotes.blog for example) because it is currently not clear what urls are official and made by you and which are just blogs made by anyone. For example, https://collectednotes.com/accounts/ is genuine and made by you whilst https://collec…

On second thoughts, using a sub domain would make way more sense.

+1

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by eitland » Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 9:20 AM UTC

vonquant wrote: post #155

vonquant wrote: post #149

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Hey, this looks great. One thing you might want to consider is having one domain for a website about collectednotes (collectednotes.com) and another for hosting user's blogs (collectednotes.blog for example) because it is currently not clear what urls are official and made by you and which are just blogs made by anyone. For example, https://collectednotes.com/accounts/ is genuine and made by you whilst https://collec…

On second thoughts, using a sub domain would make way more sense.

In that case: make sure you trust your registrar.

There was a story here a couple of weeks ago or something with a post mortem from someone who got their websites taken offline and access to their mail suspended or taken offline because some automated system at a giant corporation decided so.

It stayed offline for hours because there was no competent humans available with authority to override the clearly (AFAIK) stupid decision made by the system.

Personally a key takeaway from that (except not depending on said company) was to make sure one has at least two domains, preferably with two registrars, and make sure user generated content is not available on the one you depend on for email etc.

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by alecrosa » Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 9:22 AM UTC

vonquant wrote: post #155

vonquant wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, this looks great. One thing you might want to consider is having one domain for a website about collectednotes (collectednotes.com) and another for hosting user's blogs (collectednotes.blog for example) because it is currently not clear what urls are official and made by you and which are just blogs made by anyone. For example, https://collectednotes.com/accounts/ is genuine and made by you whilst https://collec…

On second thoughts, using a sub domain would make way more sense.

ah good catch thank you

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by m-localhost » Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 9:24 AM UTC

This is a well designed product. I really like it.

The last days I was working on my personal wiki/notetaking/knowledge management because it was bugging me, that everything needs a subscription and offered too much or not enough[1].

The biggest problem I have is finding/discovering my notes or snippets, especially if its scattered across services. For public notes it's easy, using `site:domain.com searchterm` in a search engine. For private notes/services it's harder.

Especially the discovery feature is quite important for me, to randomly find notes I forgot about (at the end, all notes are work in progress).

I tried to collect my thoughts about it here: https://marcus-obst.de/wiki/Notetaking

[1] It's based on Markdown Files in a Dropbox folder hooked into Pico Flatfile CMS, I pay for webhosting anyway and dropbox is still free. Else I would use Nextcloud to replace it. Sublime Text on desktop and Drafts o iA writer are doin g exactly what I need

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by alecrosa » Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 9:28 AM UTC

m-localhost wrote: post #159

This is a well designed product. I really like it. The last days I was working on my personal wiki/notetaking/knowledge management because it was bugging me, that everything needs a subscription and offered too much or not enough[1]. The biggest problem I have is finding/discovering my notes or snippets, especially if its scattered across services. For public notes it's easy, using `site:domain.com searchterm` in a s…

oh wow, that's quite a setup you have. I found myself collecting a lot of private & public notes, and that makes it hard to find things quickly, I plan to work on that problem next. I'm thinking of a faster typeahead than the one the iOS app currently has plus some sort of categorization based on the note text (maybe using topic extraction).