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Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by alecrosa »

sxldier wrote: post #210
6ak74rfy wrote: post #209

I 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 ?

Andy's website is what triggered me to build this btw

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by alecrosa »

pretzelhands wrote: post #207
benrbray wrote: post #39

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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.

oh wow prosemirror is awesome, will definitely look into adding it

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by eitland »

chrismorgan wrote: post #169
eitland wrote: post #157

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In that case: make sure you trust your registrar. There was a story here a couple of weeks ago or something with a post mortem from someone who got their websites taken offline and access to their mail suspended or taken offline because some automated system at a giant corporation decided so. It stayed offline for hours because there was no competent humans available with authority to override the clearly (AFAIK) stu…

The story in question: https://blog.gitbook.com/tech/post-mortems/06-20-gitbook-dom... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23417046 ). Note that in that case the user content was on a separate domain—the registrar blocked the entire account .

Oh. Possibly even worse.

(Although I think there might have been some comments about user generated content on the main domain.)

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by suref »

I'm trying to understand what makes this app so popular, I created my own notetaking-app and did a shown HN and got like 5 upvotes yet I have plently of features this doesn't have like nested folders, search, hotkeys, code tagging, tools for creating tables/code, uploads of pdfs, images and all of this completely free. It's almost like setting a price on the service makes people want to use it more.

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by sxldier »

alecrosa wrote: post #211
sxldier wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you referring to https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes ?

Andy's website is what triggered me to build this btw

That's pretty cool. The product looks great as well, congrats on launching!

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by vxNsr »

fouc wrote: post #115
kovek wrote: post #75

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It would be great if there was a good way to find existing projects that achieve what we seek. Usually, the biggest names are visible, and it's hard to find alternatives that achieve specific ideas.

I suspect we need some sort of search engine that helps push us towards the alternate stuff. Currently google tends to highlight the big sites/authoritative sources etc, and not the smaller blogs/forums/etc as much. We basically need some filter against the winners that take all. Block off the top 10-20% sites and only show the long tail.

There is a website called alternative.to which kinda does this for most things, it’s user maintained but it works pretty well for most things, but sometimes fails for smaller projects

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by Kye »

suref wrote: post #216

I'm trying to understand what makes this app so popular, I created my own notetaking-app and did a shown HN and got like 5 upvotes yet I have plently of features this doesn't have like nested folders, search, hotkeys, code tagging, tools for creating tables/code, uploads of pdfs, images and all of this completely free. It's almost like setting a price on the service makes people want to use it more.

I'm not sure it means anything. HN has reached a volume of submissions where it seems like what reaches the front page is a matter of luck.

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by suref »

Kye wrote: post #219
suref wrote: post #216

I'm trying to understand what makes this app so popular, I created my own notetaking-app and did a shown HN and got like 5 upvotes yet I have plently of features this doesn't have like nested folders, search, hotkeys, code tagging, tools for creating tables/code, uploads of pdfs, images and all of this completely free. It's almost like setting a price on the service makes people want to use it more.

I'm not sure it means anything. HN has reached a volume of submissions where it seems like what reaches the front page is a matter of luck.

I guess you're right. Everything has a snowball effect on the internet, the hard part is getting the ball rolling.
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