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Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by burntcaramel »

ThomPete wrote: post #92
graeme wrote: post #88

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>For example, right now, moving a file breaks its relationship with a note, and an open file's notes aren't associated with the file's finder icon. That's interesting. Is there a workaround or quick way to transfer notes? I often rearrange files.

There kind of are it just requires a little more work on our end. We will hopefully be able to share that with people soon. Interestingly and anecdotally when moved around in dropbox it seems to keep it's relationship.

If you haven’t already check out the 'bookmark data' methods of NSURL: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...

However, I’m not sure if you can use these without the user choosing the file with an open panel, or with drag and drop. That’s what I had to rely on with my app Blik: http://www.burntcaramel.com/blik/

Ghostnote looks great, by the way!

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by [deleted] »

ThomPete wrote: post #92
graeme wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>For example, right now, moving a file breaks its relationship with a note, and an open file's notes aren't associated with the file's finder icon. That's interesting. Is there a workaround or quick way to transfer notes? I often rearrange files.

There kind of are it just requires a little more work on our end. We will hopefully be able to share that with people soon. Interestingly and anecdotally when moved around in dropbox it seems to keep it's relationship.

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Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by kurige »

ThomPete wrote: post #92
graeme wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>For example, right now, moving a file breaks its relationship with a note, and an open file's notes aren't associated with the file's finder icon. That's interesting. Is there a workaround or quick way to transfer notes? I often rearrange files.

There kind of are it just requires a little more work on our end. We will hopefully be able to share that with people soon. Interestingly and anecdotally when moved around in dropbox it seems to keep it's relationship.

Although it might annoy some users, a quick work-around might be to add a tag to the file. Tags on files/folders don't go away when you move or rename the file. Something like, "ghostnote:" where ID is some internal reference to the associated note.

In fact... using this method you wouldn't have to store the URLs of files/folders at all.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by jjude »

GimbalLock wrote: post #74

What in the world does the start up message mean? I bought the app and when I opened it, I got a message about needing to open some folder. Was I supposed to go find that folder on disk and open it, or just click "Ok!"?

That message could be better. The app already opened the folder. So I didn't understand what to do. Should I have to open the folder in Finder? Or should I have to copy? The message could've just explained why the folder was opened and said, "Don't worry, just click ok" or something similar.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by juliob »

ThomPete wrote: post #155
juliob wrote: post #154

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Thanks for this app; I've been wanting exactly this for years: I need to multi-task and I often forget what I was doing, so I need a TODO attached to specific windows. Before you start adding big features such as Applescript, I recommend that you address basic problems and missing features (that you might have unearthed with an extended beta program). Please go check out the reviews at the App Store.

Thank you very much for your kind words. We have three priorities Bug fixing Applescript Dropbox Team Access In that order. So don't worry we aren't going to drop or turn this into bloatware :)

My concern is not that that it could become bloatware. My concern is that it suffers from basic usability issues but you're prioritizing things that I won't ever use.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by pbowyer »

juliob wrote: post #176
ThomPete wrote: post #155

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Thank you very much for your kind words. We have three priorities Bug fixing Applescript Dropbox Team Access In that order. So don't worry we aren't going to drop or turn this into bloatware :)

My concern is not that that it could become bloatware. My concern is that it suffers from basic usability issues but you're prioritizing things that I won't ever use.

Seconded

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by navanit »

ThomPete wrote: post #162
navanit wrote: post #158

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> - not really they are archived objects This is a deal-breaker for me. I don't want to risk putting years of effort into this and then have the app break when Apple decides to deprecate APIs in their next OS release. Having said that, you should be charging much more.

I understand but keep in mind that the idea behind ghostnote is not to store your precious quotes but more something like temporarily important notes. Having said that however we will be making it possible to export/backup the notes into something like evernote or other much more accessible format.

*.txt will be the only format that mitigates the risk I'm talking about.

Evernote. Sigh.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by ThomPete »

juliob wrote: post #176
ThomPete wrote: post #155

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Thank you very much for your kind words. We have three priorities Bug fixing Applescript Dropbox Team Access In that order. So don't worry we aren't going to drop or turn this into bloatware :)

My concern is not that that it could become bloatware. My concern is that it suffers from basic usability issues but you're prioritizing things that I won't ever use.

I hear you and I promise you they wont be affecting the usability at all :)

Applescript is something you can use to do but wont have any affect on the usability.

Dropbox support also wont have any affect on the interface.

Our primary priority will always be bugs and user experience first, features second.

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