This is neat but I can't seem to get the desktop version to sync - I even upgraded iCloud.
Derp, I had to turn on iCloud syncing. Working great now!
Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
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Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
#192I‘m sending emails with notes to my own gmail account since years (I have a filter that moves emails to myself to a notes folder). It works from everywhere, costs nothing, support all kinds of attachments. I can read them with every email client on every OS out there. No note taking app comes close to the flexibility and usability of emails.
Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
#193This is just what I wanted, with one exception — there’s no obvious way to export all the data in a machine-readable way. I’m not going to journal in something I don’t know I can move on with if the app dies or I move to a platform that doesn’t support it.
Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You can backup discord channels with discord bots, like [1]. [1] https://xenon.bot/
Cool, thanks. I don't doubt the community and the good software, it's just that for me Telegram was there first.
Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
#195This is just what I wanted, with one exception — there’s no obvious way to export all the data in a machine-readable way. I’m not going to journal in something I don’t know I can move on with if the app dies or I move to a platform that doesn’t support it.
Thank you for your feedback. You can export all data in JSON format from the macOS app by going to the menu bar and selecting File > Export. I plan to extend the export options in the future to support other formats like markdown.
Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
#196Thank you for building this! I've been looking for something like this and even tried to build some for myself. As a non-developer, I've only been able to port some existing services and use very rudimentary structures. What I like about the chat-style interface is that I can always write little pieces that are easy to send, but hard to edit afterwards. It forces me to keep writing and sending, rather than stopping a…
Thank you for your kind words!
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Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
#197I love the concept. As someone keeps everything on browser, I can see a demand for the web version.
Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
#198Thank you for building this! I've been looking for something like this and even tried to build some for myself. As a non-developer, I've only been able to port some existing services and use very rudimentary structures. What I like about the chat-style interface is that I can always write little pieces that are easy to send, but hard to edit afterwards. It forces me to keep writing and sending, rather than stopping a…
Thank you for your kind words! The SQLite database is located at: ~/Library/Group Containers/KXMRPURL69.app.strflow/LocalFiles/data/database.sqlite Please avoid directly editing the SQLite database, or any other file under ~/Library/Group Containers/KXMRPURL69.app.strflow/LocalFiles/, as it can potentially cause issues with the app.
Thanks! I'm only using it to learn about the structure (and perhaps for backup, a periodical export seems more reasonable though). Can I export/locate data from ios without syncing to mac?
Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
#199Just wanted to chime in and say that I LOVE Strflow. It's the only app that solves a specific but major pain point I've always had regarding digital note-taking.
I've been using it since it first came out and it's remarkable.
As someone who NEVER takes long or extensive notes, every note-taking app I tried left me with a bunch of note documents with just 1 or 2 lines of text.
Document-based note-taking apps simply don't meet my needs, and yet almost ALL note-taking apps out there treat a "note" as a single document. I get it; it's like notes in real life, but it doesn't work for me digitally.
Strflow's chat-style UI is flawless for this specific style of note-taking. There's nothing else like it in the market.
I love that it's minimalist and feels so lightweight. It just makes jotting down quick notes throughout the day so much easier.
Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves
#200Apologies for the self-promotion, but as several people here mentioned Telegram already... From a similar motivation of minimizing friction when taking notes, I created a Telegram bot that saves all messages you send it into a Google Spreadsheet. Hashtags can be used to split the text into columns, if so desired. Besides jotting down quick thoughts, this is very handy for short-form journaling such as tracking expens…
Looks really interesting! Is it open-source? I’d probably prefer to spin up my own bot instance, if it is possible
That is great man. My own sheet gives a parsing error for the date. But really gread stuff. Can you be reached by char or email?