Have you got a comparison matrix to OneNote or Evernote?
That'd be handy.
Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work
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Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work
#32Why would I use it over OneNote web app?
Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work
#33Hm, no, simply cannot afford 144$/y for another cloud note system. Please, we need this: Note taking done right: Android, iOS, Desktop, Markdown & HTML & Pictures, easy flat file format (preferred markdown), Web clipper, archive notes, offline and do this all without wasting whitespace (no document editor like Evernote) and good sync and instant search results while you type. <- would spend a bigger double digit numb…
My setup is: directory with Markdown files on encfs mounted from ciphertext on a Dropbox, exposed via WebDAVS behind the password. I use Noteboks app[1] for iOS (it keeps notes offline, but can sync with WebDAV). On a desktop I use my own webapp similar to the Simplenote/nvALT (I probably could use nvALT or similar too).
Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work
#34Hm, no, simply cannot afford 144$/y for another cloud note system. Please, we need this: Note taking done right: Android, iOS, Desktop, Markdown & HTML & Pictures, easy flat file format (preferred markdown), Web clipper, archive notes, offline and do this all without wasting whitespace (no document editor like Evernote) and good sync and instant search results while you type. <- would spend a bigger double digit numb…
What about Tiddlywiki[0] in a cloud drive, own server or USB stick?
You can customize it with lots of extensions to do this "creative" stuff, from drawings to mind-maps, etc.
Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's something I would use daily, that seems pretty cheap: less than 40 cents / day. A company like Microsoft can afford to price its consumer software to maximize marketshare. Bootstrapped startups shouldn't bother to compete with the same approach.
Of course they should compete. They should provide better value. That doesn't necessarily mean it has to be less expensive though. Freemium applications usually have nothing between the free tier and the professional tier. I'd pay for a lot more services if there was a personal or supporter tier. For something like this, I'd pay $25 / year. That means every time I launch it, I'd be paying between ten and twenty-five…
I actually totally agree and we're looking at tweaking our pricing options for Milanote to reflect this idea :)
Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work
#36Can I drop Adobe Illustrator or Sketchup content and edit it in-place?
Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work
#37Hm, no, simply cannot afford 144$/y for another cloud note system. Please, we need this: Note taking done right: Android, iOS, Desktop, Markdown & HTML & Pictures, easy flat file format (preferred markdown), Web clipper, archive notes, offline and do this all without wasting whitespace (no document editor like Evernote) and good sync and instant search results while you type. <- would spend a bigger double digit numb…
I am in the middle of developing this right now, but it already checks quite a few of your boxes: https://github.com/NickBusey/BulletNotes
Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does Org-mode handle images? If not, that's an issue for a lot of creative work.
Good enough for documents. Not good enough for "creative work". Emacs can display images (but not really edit them - or at least I'm not aware of an appropriate elisp package ;)), and you can make Org Mode display the images you link to in-line. Including ones you generate from code snippets in your .org file, which makes the whole thing pretty useful for scientific computing :).
Ah, interesting - I might have to give it a try some time. Thanks!
Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work
#39I've been in the Milanote beta and I really love it. I agree with the other commenters about the smart UI choices that I haven't seen elsewhere: column notes, unsorted list, no zoom, etc. Sometimes I need to arrange notes across a 2d space to group them and think about them correctly instead of having big sorted lists.
My knee-jerk to the pricing was that it's too much. On the other hand, as a brain-storming idea-gathering space maybe I don't need more than 100 notes at a time -- once I'm done brainstorming I export and delete, I dunno.
By way of comparison, I have 1600 notes in Evernote including PDFs, images, presentations I'm working on, web-clipped articles and their contents, encrypted notes... and they're $99/year. I don't think Milanote is positioning itself as the "everything box" that Evernote is. If they are I'd love to see a roadmap to help me evaluate.
Please add an API for programmatically accessing notes and boards. I don't need the layout information necessarily, but how great to tag a note #todo and have some agent somewhere pick it up and start tracking it, or sync an entire board out as part of a build process to make a larger publication.
Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work
#40I've been in the Milanote beta and I really love it. I agree with the other commenters about the smart UI choices that I haven't seen elsewhere: column notes, unsorted list, no zoom, etc. Sometimes I need to arrange notes across a 2d space to group them and think about them correctly instead of having big sorted lists. My knee-jerk to the pricing was that it's too much. On the other hand, as a brain-storming idea-gat…
Glad you like it so far!
In terms of a roadmap, we've got pretty big plans—here are some things (including an API/integrations) that people have requested: http://www.milanote.com/poll. But obviously there are lots of things we're planning to build which aren't on that list :)