does it have iPhone support too
Unfortunately there are no mobile apps for Notable, but you could put your notes into Dropbox and edit them using any of the already existing text editors.
Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
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Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Notable is most definitely not an Evernote clone, which is what I'm coming from as well. I'm comparing Notable with Boostnote in the comparison table [1] in the readme, you might want to give that a look. IMHO Notable is better than Boostnote for the following main reasons: - It supports attachments, sooner or later you are going to need to add an image or pdf to a note. The only way of doing that with Boostnote is l…
Ahhhhh I didn't realize the table scrolled and thought it was directly comparing itself to Evernote, my mistake! The biggest 2 things you hit on is: 1) Boostnote is ugly. It's not stylish, but I do like how it's simple and direct. 2) Images. I forgot how painful adding an image was in Boostnote. You've convinced to at least try out Notable! I've been searching for an open source project to contribute to as well so th…
The biggest difference IMHO is that notes in Notable are just Markdown files, so I can open them in any Markdown editor and use all its features. One can't do this with Boostnote because they are wrapping the note in .cson for adding some metadata (Notable uses Markdown front matter instead).
> I've been searching for an open source project to contribute to as well so this could very well be it.
That would be awesome :)
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#23Quiver is a pretty awesome open format note-taking application with an iOS app (read-only):
http://happenapps.com/
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#24Quiver is a pretty awesome open format note-taking application with an iOS app (read-only): http://happenapps.com/
I'm not so sure about the "open format" part.
Quiver stores notes in .qvnote, which I wouldn't call open. They have "Quiver Notebooks", where in Notable notebooks are just special tags, which are stored as Markdown front matter.
IMHO Quiver is somewhat weird, they have a concept of "cells", you write Markdown inside a "Markdown Cell", there also a "Text" cell, a "LaTeX" cell etc. IMHO this complicates things unnecessarily. If you only support Markdown you can get rid of the Text cell, the LaTeX cell is also weird, it would be much more portable to just define a LaTeX code block and then at render-time render that into the actual result.
Once you get rid of this "cells" concept you can get rid of .qvnote too and just store notes in Markdown.
Btw I'm comparing Notable against Quiver too in the comparison table [1].
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#25Describing an electron app as “doesn’t suck” is pretty rich on its own, but even more so when you consider that there are several existing native macOS Markdown editors.
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#26Describing an electron app as “doesn’t suck” is pretty rich on its own, but even more so when you consider that there are several existing native macOS Markdown editors.
Being native isn't everything. As I mention in the readme I couldn't find an app that ticked all the boxes I'm interested in, which are: notes are written and rendered in GitHub-flavored Markdown, no WYSIWYG, no proprietary formats, I can run a search & replace across all notes, notes support attachments, the app isn't bloated, the app has a pretty interface, tags are indefinitely nestable and can import Evernote notes (because that's what I was using before).
Being native just wasn't a priority for me, I can bear the start-up latency and the RAM usage as long as app is overall quick after that.
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#27Describing an electron app as “doesn’t suck” is pretty rich on its own, but even more so when you consider that there are several existing native macOS Markdown editors.
Being native isn't everything. As I mention in the readme I couldn't find an app that ticked all the boxes I'm interested in, which are: notes are written and rendered in GitHub-flavored Markdown, no WYSIWYG, no proprietary formats, I can run a search & replace across all notes, notes support attachments, the app isn't bloated, the app has a pretty interface, tags are indefinitely nestable and can import Evernote not…
> the app isn't bloated
> I can bear the start-up latency and the RAM usage as long as app is overall quick after that.
Error. Does not compute.
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Being native isn't everything. As I mention in the readme I couldn't find an app that ticked all the boxes I'm interested in, which are: notes are written and rendered in GitHub-flavored Markdown, no WYSIWYG, no proprietary formats, I can run a search & replace across all notes, notes support attachments, the app isn't bloated, the app has a pretty interface, tags are indefinitely nestable and can import Evernote not…
> the app isn't bloated > I can bear the start-up latency and the RAM usage as long as app is overall quick after that. Error. Does not compute.
There's the bloat of apps like Notion.so giving you a calendar and a kanban board, and there's the bloat of the apps that use 100mb of ram more than the optimal.
I can bear the latter, not the former.
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#29What exactly is the attachments feature and how does it work? And how are these saved?
Also, what do you mean by 'no WYSIWYG'? Since you render ir in Github Flavoured MD?
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#30I used Typora https://typora.io/ > this year for my lecture notes and Notable lacks two crucial features that the former has:
1) LaTeX math support (i.e. MathJax). Being able to write inline formulas and using `align`, `table` etc. is a must in certain fields.
2) Notes in custom directory. Currently it seems that all your notes will be stored in your data directory, whereas I'd like to save my notes (and its assets) in a different directory as well (for instance, because I keep all my lecture notes and courseworks in a git repo).