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Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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How do you interpret these licensing terms: License Copyright (c) Mihir Chaturvedi. All rights reserved. Licensed under the MIT License. If Mihir has all rights reserved, what's the purpose of adding MIT with it?

MIT is how the work can be used by others. This is basically saying "hey, I claim all the intellectual property rights granted to me by law. However, if you use this software strictly under these terms (MIT), I will not consider it to be infringing upon my rights."

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

#43

Serious question: does anyone regularly use a Markdown notes app/site/extension? I've seen this kind of thing appear a few times a year and, while they are cool and I like Markdown, I find I stop using them rather quickly in favor of things like the macOS Notes app or Slack because of things like convenience, ease of sharing, better search, more ease of mind that my notes won't one day disappear because of a side eff…

I've been using BoostNote pretty regularly for about 6 months, and I like it fine, but I wish it weren't an Electron App. There's not really any sharing/collaborating as far as I know, and the note structuring/search leaves a little bit to be desired (compared to say, OneNote). The good news is that it's open-source!

And I think one of the reasons I like it is because it is simple..it also has decent support for embedded LaTex, and it handles code snippets well. It does the job well for what I use it for, which is normally lecture notes, TODO lists, and idea captures. I don't really use it for documentation or anything else more formal.

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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post #7

Look good. However, on mac I would really prefer using native apps for taking notes as they are fast and has a nice design like bear. Chrome can slow down easily and is unreliable at times.

Or because I usually have a gazillion tabs open.

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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I love this , and I wish I could use it, but I've moved to Firefox. You'd have an instant daily user right here if you released it in Firefox.

I just tried and appears to work OK (Firefox 61.0.1, macOS)... since it's unsigned I loaded it as a temporary add-on in about:debugging

plibither8, would you mind adding instructions to load this into Firefox in your README as well as Chrome? Also please upload to addons.mozilla.org as well as the Chrome Store.

Nice work!

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

#46

Serious question: does anyone regularly use a Markdown notes app/site/extension? I've seen this kind of thing appear a few times a year and, while they are cool and I like Markdown, I find I stop using them rather quickly in favor of things like the macOS Notes app or Slack because of things like convenience, ease of sharing, better search, more ease of mind that my notes won't one day disappear because of a side eff…

I use Quiver[0] ($10) to store and organize work and personal notes. Their "cells" of content can be written in plaintext, code, markdown, or LaTeX. You can organize with folders, tags, favorites, etc. The different viewing modes are perfectly flexible via toggle-able panes and a "presentation" mode.

The db is just a file you can choose to sync however you want. I use Resilio[1] to keep work/laptop/desktop machines in sync.

[0]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quiver-take-better-notes/id8...

[1]: https://www.resilio.com/individuals/

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

#47

> The code makes use of localStorage() to save the raw text and the time and date of when the edit has been made. Given that localStorage only has 5MiB available to it, you could try using the localForage library to have a localStorage-like API around IndexedDB, so that people can store even larger notes (you could even support storing pasted images as PNG blobs). Even better: is has automatic localForage fallback. A…

You realize that all of Pride and Prejudice is ~280KB, right? http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342 :)

I did not! :)

Well, then imagine I just suggested it for the image blobs ;)

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

#48

Serious question: does anyone regularly use a Markdown notes app/site/extension? I've seen this kind of thing appear a few times a year and, while they are cool and I like Markdown, I find I stop using them rather quickly in favor of things like the macOS Notes app or Slack because of things like convenience, ease of sharing, better search, more ease of mind that my notes won't one day disappear because of a side eff…

I used it so much in my text editor, I ended up creating a site that did the same thing but kept things synced

https://todos.md/

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

#49
post #45

I love this , and I wish I could use it, but I've moved to Firefox. You'd have an instant daily user right here if you released it in Firefox.

I just tried and appears to work OK (Firefox 61.0.1, macOS)... since it's unsigned I loaded it as a temporary add-on in about:debugging plibither8, would you mind adding instructions to load this into Firefox in your README as well as Chrome? Also please upload to addons.mozilla.org as well as the Chrome Store. Nice work!

In case anyone is curious why this works, Firefox switched to a new extensions API which tries to stay compatible with the one Chrome uses:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions

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