I like that the business plan is made clear. Not explaining how they make money is one of the top reasons I won't use a "free" service.
Free is usually a trap
Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made
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#202it is a very useful project and just done at the right balanced - simplicity and self-contained. But, I use an android phone :(
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Awesome! FWIW I currently use a clone [1] of Andy's notes website [2], to which I've added KaTeX support. The biggest feature is the Roam-style bidirectional linking. But your system is sufficiently simpler that I think I'll give it a try, at least for some use cases. Roam-style bidirectional linking would be cool, but I wonder if it's better to keep it simple for everyone else rather than add very specific features…
Funny enough Andy’s website is one of the reasons I started this. I have bidirectional linking on the roadmap since day one, but not like Roam, I plan to do something different to keep it simple. For me simplicity is number one here :)
Yes, I passionately agree with simplicity as a core principle. This makes me very excited to see how you implement bidirectional linking.
Godspeed!
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oh wow, that's quite a setup you have. I found myself collecting a lot of private & public notes, and that makes it hard to find things quickly, I plan to work on that problem next. I'm thinking of a faster typeahead than the one the iOS app currently has plus some sort of categorization based on the note text (maybe using topic extraction).
Topic extraction is a very good idea (for public notes) using something like this: https://www.textrazor.com/ ? (I knew I bookmarked this page, but couldn't find it and had to use google :D and 5 iterations of search terms to find it again - I need to improve that...)
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#205Less than a month ago I decided to build an app for myself to solve a very specific problem: “I want to be able to take notes on my phone, share some of them online, and publish a few on my personal blog — oh, an I also want an API!” I built this is because no tool out there satisfied my needs: - Notion had no native app so it's very slow to use on mobile. Plus is too general. - Medium is a disaster for readers, they…
Maybe extend your video with how notes are stored and retrieved?
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#206how does "public/private" work? Looks like there is no sign up feature on the web and I can't view a private post (as it should be), but just wondering what is really going on behind the scenes. Does a "private" post still get uploaded to your server? or does it truly stay private only on my phone?
Private is also uploaded. Will make all those thing clearer, consistent feedback here about that topic. (Nowhere else people mentioned that)
will you eventually provide a web dashboard that lets users sign in and view their private posts?
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You mean math symbols? Thought about doing that
Yes, please do! My job involves a lot of math, so it a dealbreaker for me when notetaking software doesn't have math support. These days it's very easy to include! The easiest way is to use KaTeX [1] to render math between dollar sign tags for inline math like this $x+y=5$ and for display math like this: $$ \int_a^b f(x) dx $$ Many markdown parsers (like markdown-it) have plugins for math support. In the future, I wo…
Maybe a bit late, but chiming in here to say that prosemirror in general is absolutely amazing. Used it to build my own note taking app, highly recommended.
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Private is also uploaded. Will make all those thing clearer, consistent feedback here about that topic. (Nowhere else people mentioned that)
will you eventually provide a web dashboard that lets users sign in and view their private posts?
That’s already there, you can edit and post on the web
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#209I recently saw a website on HN where a developer had put all his working notes on that website as an experiment. It wasn't a proper blog - just inter-linked notes the way I take on a personal level.
I am not able to find that website now. Can someone share it with me if you have it?
The reason I am curious about that, and the tool that OP has built, is that I have now realized that most of my personal notes don't have to be private - I can just put them out there. Now, no one will ever see them but that's hardly the point. I want to revisit that website and see what technologies they used to build such a public knowledge base.
I also started looking at Docusaurus yesterday (again, from an HN comment) and was planning to go with that, unless I find something better/simpler.
Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made
#210I recently saw a website on HN where a developer had put all his working notes on that website as an experiment. It wasn't a proper blog - just inter-linked notes the way I take on a personal level. I am not able to find that website now. Can someone share it with me if you have it? The reason I am curious about that, and the tool that OP has built, is that I have now realized that most of my personal notes don't hav…
Are you referring to https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes ?