Looking forward to trying this when I have a phone that runs iOS 17+.
Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
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Sure, but I just use a personal Telegram channel for this. It's quite well-searchable too, and it serves me 95% perfectly.
I just use a 1-person Slack message for this. Split categories into channels. I can also write my own plugin bots to respond to specific queries. I considered Discord but I hate its UI, especially every time I go to the website it wants to do a phone verification. F that, I'm out. If you are a nonessential "fun" app you need to be as low friction as possible.
I use Slack for this too, mostly because its reminders work great for me. If messages are anywhere else I keep losing/forgetting them. I wrote a Raycast plugin that takes a screenshot and sends it straight to my Slack, then I add whatever reminder I want from there.
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#153Haha, love this. I use WhatsApp though and am able to organize/categorize ideas using a community that only I'm a part of :)
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I text myself notes, and it’s not because I don’t want to use another app, but because I like the streaming append-only log style of notes. I don’t like how hard it is to search through them stores in iMessage. I’ve thought about building an app like this, just since I haven’t been able to find one. So the problem does exist, though it’s not for you. And it’s plainly not the case that if people wanted these features…
Sure, but I just use a personal Telegram channel for this. It's quite well-searchable too, and it serves me 95% perfectly.
I use Signal's Note to Self. It's often easier than dealing with a notes app or file syncing for one offs or interesting links I want to read on another device.
Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
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Sure, but I just use a personal Telegram channel for this. It's quite well-searchable too, and it serves me 95% perfectly.
What about using a discord server?
Discord is generally snappy but nothing beats Telegram. It just feels like the only remaining desktop client that actually makes use of native OS facilities.
Plus there are scripts to back up the said channels. With Discord I haven't checked (but maybe there are as well).
So mostly (1) Telegram is still snappier and (2) Telegram was there first, more or less, at least on my own timeline of checking chat clients.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just use a 1-person Slack message for this. Split categories into channels. I can also write my own plugin bots to respond to specific queries. I considered Discord but I hate its UI, especially every time I go to the website it wants to do a phone verification. F that, I'm out. If you are a nonessential "fun" app you need to be as low friction as possible.
I use Slack for this too, mostly because its reminders work great for me. If messages are anywhere else I keep losing/forgetting them. I wrote a Raycast plugin that takes a screenshot and sends it straight to my Slack, then I add whatever reminder I want from there.
I admit Slack's reminders are a pretty neat addition. Wish Telegram had that.
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Honestly I love the direction and I do this all the time. If you could 1) integrate directly with iMessage so I'm literally just texting and 2) have your interface provide me some sort of LLM summary tool/weekly digest/remind me of things smartly (I dunno it's up to you to figure out), I'd probably do this.
Thank you! 2) is an interesting idea. I plan to add functionalities that can smartly suggest and categorize notes in the future. Thanks for the suggestion!
What did I do last year?
Last month?
Last week?
How does that correlate with what’s ahead?
Something like that would keep me from relearning the same stuff over and over would be very helpful. I suffer from a TBI and do my recall/remember well. Whenever I do technical work, I have to constantly relearn steps. Would be nice to have those steps easily accessible, without effort from the user.
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#158I made a web app with a similar goal, but with one additional feature: the text field is also the search field, as you type a new note, the existing notes get filtered based on the text of the new note: https://thinktype.app
This is really neat. It reminds me of my use of Notational Velocity from (holy cow!) almost 20 years ago. https://notational.net/
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I understand your point. For me, though, existing apps like Slack or iMessage were insufficient because, at the end of the day, they aren’t “note-taking apps.” By creating a dedicated note app combined with a chat-style timeline-focused UI, I feel that the speed and quality of note-taking have improved. However, I understand that it might not be for everyone, and I appreciate your feedback!
It is really interesting how different people are in their preferred solutions. The thing that I've learned makes an application good for note-taking is a lack of features. Simplicity is key for this use case for me. Even on the desktop, my "note-taking" app is just notepad on Windows, kwrite in KDE, and a very bare-bones text editor on my phone. None of this is even remotely a criticism of your effort. I was just po…
> Even on the desktop, my "note-taking" app is just notepad on Windows, kwrite in KDE, and a very bare-bones text editor on my phone.
I've done this years ago in my .bashrc and use it almost daily:
alias todo='vim ~/.todo'
Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
#160My number one problem with notes apps is that they all take too long to open a new note, and try to sync themselves when opened, often slowing everything down. Especially if you have a slow / choppy connection (fully offline is usually ok, but barely online is the worst). I have a literal supercomputer in my pocket, yet not one app let's me open and start writing a critical note in less than 500ms. To this day I stil…
Give a shot to my note-taking app! https://www.get-plume.com
It stays hidden in the background, and you can summon it immediately using a shortcut key like control + N on macOS/Windows key + Shift + N on Windows.
It also starts very fast from scratch since it's a Qt C++ app, not Electron.