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Re: Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface

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whoa, the design of this web page threw me off at first. Interesting apple vibe but it's all over I don't know where to look, it's just all over/in my face. (on desktop)

The first word I noticed on that page: "Declutter".

Yeah, the minimalist websites of today can sometimes be too minimalist, but this... is the opposite.

Edit: ah yeah of course it's an optimized-for-mobile page. Watched the video, it uses hashtags, this potential user says: pass.

Re: Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface

#32
if i could have a suggestion, rethink the home page design again. I was stunned because I couldn't focus on anything, I didn't understand what I was looking at for a good 5 seconds. My main complaint: the images are too big and the text too small. The information that you can lock using your fingerprint is unreasonably more prominent than the information about what the product is and where you can get it.

Good luck, we need privacy oriented tools!

Re: Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface

#33

whoa, the design of this web page threw me off at first. Interesting apple vibe but it's all over I don't know where to look, it's just all over/in my face. (on desktop)

The first word I noticed on that page: "Declutter". Yeah, the minimalist websites of today can sometimes be too minimalist, but this... is the opposite. Edit: ah yeah of course it's an optimized-for-mobile page. Watched the video, it uses hashtags, this potential user says: pass.

Hashtags aren’t only for social media…they’re a commonly used tagging mechanism for lots of text-based interfaces. You don’t have to use them though.

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post #32

if i could have a suggestion, rethink the home page design again. I was stunned because I couldn't focus on anything, I didn't understand what I was looking at for a good 5 seconds. My main complaint: the images are too big and the text too small. The information that you can lock using your fingerprint is unreasonably more prominent than the information about what the product is and where you can get it. Good luck,…

Haha thanks for the feedback. I definitely am hearing some echos. I was inspired by apples keynote grid design but then realized maybe for a landing page it’s a bit too chaotic? And your eyes don’t have a linear place to start and have to do some extra work. Definitely thinking ways to mitigate this.

Re: Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface

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post #29

I found I installed this a long time ago and didn't use it. Today however it seems like something I can definitely use. I've been thinking in the same direction a few times (I.e. a personal Twitter) but never came around to it and always fell back to saved messages on Telegram. Now however this seems to have become what I want. We'll see, I might still fall back to Telegram but I have at least signed up for the trial…

Thank you for the shoutout. Yeah most of the features are free but with subscription you are supporting me and also unlocking the photo logs and fonts and hopefully more in the future.

Re: Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface

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Interesting. I've seen people using telegram to post messages to their Roam graph, it will require some significant work considering this is an offline-only app. But then again, if I do support all these log types, why not just go to the app directly? I do like your auto prompt feature and have thought about it as well (or even support different scripted prompts as plugins), some people do like the prompt and structu…

> I've seen people using telegram to post messages to their Roam graph, I've so far gone the other way: I use the share sheet on my phone to share to myself on Telegram. If you could get something like that working it would be super smooth. That said I have already subscribed. I hate subscriptions but the pricing was reasonable enough to let my urge to support it win.

Thank you so much for the support. The share sheet is exactly the way I’m thinking. Skipping the cloud. I’m going to look into that soon.
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