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Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work

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Post by therealmarv »

diego_moita wrote: post #34
therealmarv wrote: post #9

Hm, 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. [0] http://tiddlywiki.com/

Tiddlywiki is pretty good. I liked it the last time I was using it (some years ago). What I did not liked is the image handling on Tiddlywiki... it took too long or better to say it was a little to complicated when you do this often. TiddlyWiki is a good example of NOT wasting whitespace. I want to manage little tiny notes, not documents :)

Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work

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Post by tukelully »

Just for comparison, this costs the same per month as a one-time purchase of Quiver (a notes app for people that don't fit the late nineties definition of creative) which is amazing, 3x the cost of a base DigitalOcean vps, ~5x the cost of Evernote Plus per month, 7x the cost of 100gb of Google Drive storage, 1.5x the cost of a Webstorm sub, 3x the cost of Crashplan, and 1.5x the cost of a music subscription. On the other hand it is less than an Adobe product.

Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work

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Post by therealmarv »

mynegation wrote: post #33
therealmarv wrote: post #9

Hm, 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). [1] http://www.notebooksapp.com/

I'm curious... is this notebooksapp using a flat file structure always on the Mac (tried to figure out on their website) ? Bummer I don't use iOS. And it seems a text only note taking system does not work for me (otherwise I would also use nvalt, iawriter etc. already)

Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work

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Post by gravypod »

s_kilk wrote: post #27
therealmarv wrote: post #9

Hm, 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 just sync a directory of markdown files (and subdirectories) with Dropbox, and use whatever editor is appropriate on whatever desktop/mobile OS. Easy, simple, no botnet.

> with Dropbox

If you replace that with owncloud then maybe no botnet.

Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work

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Post by Raphmedia »

therealmarv wrote: post #9

Hm, 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…

It's actually a pretty competitive price. InvisionApp is $15/month at its cheapest which allows only 3 prototypes at a time.

Apps targeted at designers are usually pretty expensive. I already pay $79/month to have full access to Adobe cloud apps.

Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work

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Post by [deleted] »

s_kilk wrote: post #27
therealmarv wrote: post #9

Hm, 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 just sync a directory of markdown files (and subdirectories) with Dropbox, and use whatever editor is appropriate on whatever desktop/mobile OS. Easy, simple, no botnet.

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Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work

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Post by oliebol »

richardboegli wrote: post #31

Have you got a comparison matrix to OneNote or Evernote? That'd be handy.

Not in terms of features, but this article might give you some idea of what we're trying to do differently to Evernote: https://medium.com/milanote/why-using-evernote-is-making-you...

Re: Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work

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Post by lowglow »

mntmn wrote: post #6

We made 5 or 6 major versions of a similar tool from 2011-now ( https://spacedeck.com ), in the end it failed to monetize in a significant way. We will probably open-source it soon to provide a continuity path for the (relatively small) core userbase. Edit: You made some really good UX detail choices: - Grid that snaps on releasing items - Column object (smart!) - Omitting zoom is also probably a good idea (complicat…

Why do you think it has failed to monetize?
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