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Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

#23

The only reason I'm not using vue yet is because of react-native. Is the vue equivalent of that going to finish soon?

Haven't tried it out yet, but Weex (https://weex.apache.org/) looks really promising. I think this will be table stakes for most frameworks moving forward.

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

#24
post #20

Looking great! Thanks for sharing. I assume it's not open-sourced, but I wanted to ask about the code nonetheless. I would have loved to see it to appreciate Vue.js better.

It is (https://github.com/tmm/notational)! Star, fork, watch it!

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

#26
post #21

This is website only? That kinda defeats the purpose of a Notational velocity clone doesn't it?

The title says "inspired by" it, so I don't think it was meant to be a clone.

Yup, not meant to be a clone. I use a Mac at home and Windows at work so I needed something I could use anywhere.

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

#27
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I never used Notational Velocity, but this seems like an awesome UI to use for Notes. As long as you have powerful search you can always find your notes by their content and create new ones when the ones you find aren't relevant. How many times I've created a new note related to something I wrote about before, but didn't want to search for. Now I'd basically be forced to search for it when I tried to create the new n…

Or just use Sublime and a cloud. Ctrl+Shift+F will search all your notes. (https://github.com/galfarragem/hamster-gtd)

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

#29

Semi-related: I've been using Vue along with Phoenix on the server, and the stack is simply incredible in terms of productivity and ease-of-use. I'm tentatively planning on writing a book that teaches how to use the two together (I call the stack "Vuenix"). Would people here be interested in that?

I love Vue and I'm interested in learning Phoenix. What's particularly compelling about the stack?

Phoenix is great because it gives you the same productivity benefits that Rails does, but it doesn't have any of the crazy "magic", which makes it both fast and also easy to understand. When you want to learn about how something works you can pop the hood and read the source code, and it's both well-documented and easy to understand. Elixir is also functional as opposed to object-oriented, which means no leaky abstractions!

I like Vue because it's easy to pick up and it gets out of your way. It's not as complex as React, but still very powerful and extensible. Vue's browser extension is also top-notch.

I like working with them as a stack because they are both very transparent, which makes it easy to reason about when you're passing data back and forth between the server and the client. The only way I can describe it is that it feels very "natural".

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

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post #3

The app looks really well put together. I went as far as creating an account until I realized it unusable on mobile--I need to hit control + enter to create a note.

Yeah, open to suggestions! The point is to use the keyboard for everything so mobile is tricky. Also, all the code is on GitHub ( https://github.com/tmm/notational ).

You could add a + button on the left of the "search or create" field. No risk of accidentally touching the search icon that way.
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