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

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Great app, congrats on launching. Usability and User focus 10/10. How secure is this app? Care to let us in on the specifics?

Thank you! What specifically? It’s not intended for very sensitive data. Much prefer the note/blog use case.

yes, specifically, is my data encrypted at rest? My notes are very private.

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

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I've had a bunch of problems with KaTeX, I'd recommend mathjax instead.

What are the problems you've had? I'm about to switch to KaTeX for speed which will take quite a bit of work and this got me spooked.

It replaces my LaTex with unicode symbols that often look shitty, and are usually the wrong size. Also, it sometimes never rendered my equations. Don't let this totally dissuade you, I never really looked into it (switching to mathjax was easier) but I just remember that "out-of-the-box", a lot of things were broken.

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

#223

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 ?

Yep, thanks for sharing!

Can someone recommend tools that can help me build something like this? So far, I've thought of Docusaurus+Gitlab+Netlify with a custom domain to build such a website but wondering if there's something better.

OP's tool looks cool. But I am fairly technical, so looking for something I can fully control and isn't tied to a monthly subscription.

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

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post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are the problems you've had? I'm about to switch to KaTeX for speed which will take quite a bit of work and this got me spooked.

It replaces my LaTex with unicode symbols that often look shitty, and are usually the wrong size. Also, it sometimes never rendered my equations. Don't let this totally dissuade you, I never really looked into it (switching to mathjax was easier) but I just remember that "out-of-the-box", a lot of things were broken.

fwiw, I haven't had this experience at all. KaTeX has been extremely easy to integrate into my projects with a simple katex.render(my_math_str). Perhaps you had some string encoding issues separate from katex?

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

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Less 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…

Cool idea, but I'm never going to keep notes in a proprietary app, even if I can export them. It's just too much of a headache, and the risk at hand is a lot more work on my part should this not be a profitable venture on your part. Notes last for years, and even decades, and the last thing I want to do is reorganize, reindex and republish old notes.

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

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

#227
Great little app. I'm using the web version and I really love its simplicity.

One thing I've noticed is that when I edit a note the url exposes the ids of my account and the note I'm editing; idk if it's right or wrong to do that, but I tend to hide any incrementing key in the url. I know I'm the twothousandth-something user of your app, you are the first, etc. Not a bad thing, but a thing I would avoid. Also a bot could scan your database very easily and I'm sure you don't want that. For indexing purposes (speaking about using your app as a blog), it's bad for seo to have two urls pointing to the same resource (/sites/1 == /alejandro). My go to solution is to use random uuid for anything user facing.

Keep up the good job!

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

#228

Amazing idea. Slick design. How do you embed YouTube videos though? Does it make use of iframe tag and set width to 100%?

Here’s a note https://collectednotes.com/blog/support-for-youtube

Oh yes, I saw that. I should have been more clearer. As far as I know, it is harder to embed YouTube videos in markdown. Either you can embed an image and place it as an hyperlink (so clicking will open the video in a new tab) or using iframe tag. I was just wondering how was this feature implemented in your markdown.

Also, for some reason YouTube embedded markdown files when exported missed out the whole section including video link and text following it.

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

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Less 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…

I LOVE this. Such a great and simple service. Perfect example of excellent yet simple execution. I’m very impressed with all the existing features and your roadmap. Ive joined as a paying customer! Looking forward to seeing the minor improvements, but so far very impressed with the 95% quality! Nice work mate!

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

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Thank you! What specifically? It’s not intended for very sensitive data. Much prefer the note/blog use case.

> It’s not intended for very sensitive data. I hope you don't take this as a criticism, just feedback, because your product looks quite nice and if I weren't such a worry-wart, I'd probably subscribe. My issue with all notetaking applications is that all of my notes are "very sensitive data" to me. I treat my notes repository like a combination diary, scratchpad (where I plop things like temporary passwords and API k…

Have you heard of Wik? https://wik.netlify.app/#Home I just discovered it a couple of months ago and have been using it every day since. It stores everything in your web browser’s LocalStorage. The downside is that every web browser you use has independent data. This also means that backing up your data is entirely on you. However, it is fairly simple to download the entire database and back it up some place. I keep meaning to write a script to merge different instances, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
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