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Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

That divider with a time stamp on the right is very cute!

I am looking for, in a sense, the opposite of this app. I need an AI-powered IDE-like editor for markdown files. I keep a ton of research notes in markdown and when it comes to writing reports for admins and such, I need something to help me make sense of them, integrate them, reformat, do a "semantic refactoring" across files, diffs. etc. I saw people use Obsidian with some plugins, but I think I need Cursor for markdown. Any suggestions?

Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

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Post by PufPufPuf »

stavros wrote: post #8
katspaugh wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good idea, I can do that!

If you want to avoid too much choice, but still want the "the past is immutable" feel, you can prevent editing after noon next day or similar.

Having the default "midnight" be something like 3AM would get you 90% there without any UI changes

Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

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Post by sigbottle »

Append only logs >>> in-place writing and rewriting.

I mean, in real life, we call this a "diary" LOL. But even the fact that a mere "diary" doesn't have the same prestiege as say, all other forms of communication, I feel like just a tiny part of it was because it was generally hard throughout human history for the majority of people to write. Like most people were not knowledge workers, typing has definitely made it easier to write, and distribution of writing is prolific.

Obviously, there's actual benefits - compression, the concept of iterating on thoughts over and over, all of that is good.

But some of it I feel like is undeserved. Append only logs are great :D

Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

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Post by pabdav »

Love the app. Wondering if it shouldn't be a rolling 12 month calendar perhaps instead of Jan-Dec. The reason being that once you hit January after writing daily notes for a year, you won't see your existing streak of dots of the previous 12 months. Just a thought.

Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

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Post by fuzzy_biscuit »

thatgurjot wrote: post #11

Love it! The name, the design, the concept, the open source codebase, everything! It’s less like a note taking app and more like a diary writing app. I think that’s very neat and has its own niche. Love the local-first, browser-based nature of it. If you ever consider making a native app for it, consider looking at antinote ( https://antinote.io/ ). Been using it for over a year. It’s the only notes app that I haven’…

MacOS only, I gather? That's too bad. My next machine will be Linux, and I rather like the concept of the application.

Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

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Post by ladax72707 »

Nice idea. Well done on the implementation.

One tiny nitpick - layout is uncomfortable. More than 1/4th of the screen width is taken by the calendar widget (and even more when there's multiple windows open side-by-side), and the editor widget/area is off-center.

Also, showing the weather in the note itself is a cool idea. It pairs well with the journal nature of the app.

Thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

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Post by alde »

stavros wrote: post #8
katspaugh wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good idea, I can do that!

If you want to avoid too much choice, but still want the "the past is immutable" feel, you can prevent editing after noon next day or similar.

Days "roll-over" when you sleep, so it should be safe to rollover notes which haven't been edited for 6 hours. That way there is no fixed rollover time.

Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

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Post by stavros »

alde wrote: post #29
stavros wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to avoid too much choice, but still want the "the past is immutable" feel, you can prevent editing after noon next day or similar.

Days "roll-over" when you sleep, so it should be safe to rollover notes which haven't been edited for 6 hours. That way there is no fixed rollover time.

But then if you edit a note in the morning to add something, by night it'll be locked.
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