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Re: Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface

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At first I thought it was broken in Firefox 94.0.2 for me. Then I realised that form in the middle of the page was just an image. I also thought the light/dark mode toggle in the middle was real as well.

Yeah, I also thought that I would be able to interact with these elements at first.

Re: Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface

#23
post #21

Thank you. This will replace my notes app. One small thing that got me confused. Typing ? in my SO's Android (MS SwiftKey) automatically adds a space after it: "? ". No idea why it does that, but it stops search from working. Maybe skip leading whitespace?

Hope it helps you. That’s a surprising bug. Does it happen with every keyboard? Thanks for the report.

Re: Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface

#24
What do people use journal apps for? One thing I want to do is to log nature observations when I am out and about in nature. Preferably through voice recording (not neccessarily transcribed) and geotagged. Bonus points if the phone can stay in my pocket and I can do it through a PTT microphone.

Are there apps for this?

Re: Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface

#25
post #21

Thank you. This will replace my notes app. One small thing that got me confused. Typing ? in my SO's Android (MS SwiftKey) automatically adds a space after it: "? ". No idea why it does that, but it stops search from working. Maybe skip leading whitespace?

Hope it helps you. That’s a surprising bug. Does it happen with every keyboard? Thanks for the report.

Not so sure it's a true bug. Seems like it'd be adding whitespace after what's usually punctuation. Definitely a quirk though.

Re: Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface

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post #21

Thank you. This will replace my notes app. One small thing that got me confused. Typing ? in my SO's Android (MS SwiftKey) automatically adds a space after it: "? ". No idea why it does that, but it stops search from working. Maybe skip leading whitespace?

Hope it helps you. That’s a surprising bug. Does it happen with every keyboard? Thanks for the report.

It's a SwiftKey quirk, apparently, trying to be helpful in inserting common punctuation.

Re: Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface

#29
I found I installed this a long time ago and didn't use it.

Today however it seems like something I can definitely use.

I've been thinking in the same direction a few times (I.e. a personal Twitter) but never came around to it and always fell back to saved messages on Telegram.

Now however this seems to have become what I want.

We'll see, I might still fall back to Telegram but I have at least signed up for the trial without immediately unsubscribing like I usually do; the service is that promising and the price is that good.

Re: Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface

#30
post #8

I think it would be fun to have Whatsapp integration, and I can easily send pictures, notes, voice notes etc to the journal. The other part could be to have a simple chat bot that provides prompts throughout the day, like "what are you doing right now?" or "take a selfie with whoever you're with."

Interesting. I've seen people using telegram to post messages to their Roam graph, it will require some significant work considering this is an offline-only app. But then again, if I do support all these log types, why not just go to the app directly? I do like your auto prompt feature and have thought about it as well (or even support different scripted prompts as plugins), some people do like the prompt and structu…

> I've seen people using telegram to post messages to their Roam graph,

I've so far gone the other way: I use the share sheet on my phone to share to myself on Telegram.

If you could get something like that working it would be super smooth. That said I have already subscribed.

I hate subscriptions but the pricing was reasonable enough to let my urge to support it win.

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