Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Milanote – A notes app for creative work

milanote.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

71–77 of 77 posts

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

#71

Post by tukelully »

crispinb wrote: post #56

Looks nice enough, but I won't ever again lock my notes data into a file format that is either private or too complex to in practice do much with outside of the app. I have lost too many 1000s of notes that way in the past. Exports are rarely useful -- losing metadata & structure, or not being cleanly importable into the next note system. For now I use Quiver ( http://happenapps.com/#quiver ) which uses a documented…

I believe the reason it's stalled is because the single developer moved to Berlin and has been pretty busy with that for a while. But, he does still seem committed and occasionally updates on Twitter. Only mentioning because I was curious also.

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

#72

Post by crispinb »

tukelully wrote: post #71
crispinb wrote: post #56

Looks nice enough, but I won't ever again lock my notes data into a file format that is either private or too complex to in practice do much with outside of the app. I have lost too many 1000s of notes that way in the past. Exports are rarely useful -- losing metadata & structure, or not being cleanly importable into the next note system. For now I use Quiver ( http://happenapps.com/#quiver ) which uses a documented…

I believe the reason it's stalled is because the single developer moved to Berlin and has been pretty busy with that for a while. But, he does still seem committed and occasionally updates on Twitter. Only mentioning because I was curious also.

Fair enough. I wasn't knocking him. Quiver is a terrific little app, but rather niche and I can't imagine it nets enough money to be easy to carve out time for. I had a brief email correspondence with the developer a year or so ago, as I was considering building a commercial Android note taker based on the same file format. He was very open & willing to help.

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

#74

Post by Chris2048 »

I've come to the conclusion that you need more than note-taking app/process, you actually need a good system of what to do with the notes.

Notes that become blogs posts, notes that are todos (need reminders, deadlines etc) and prompt an action, and notes that are supplemental to todos (a blog post content note can also be seen as supplemental to a "write a post on this" todo). Notes that are reference and need to be put somewhere it can be found (a blog/wiki?), etcetcetc.

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

#75

Post by lowglow »

mntmn wrote: post #64
lowglow wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think it has failed to monetize?

These kind of products are nice-to-have and easily substituted by free alternatives, except for very narrow specific niches that need some of the more advanced functionality (in our case, music teachers). For the general user, these tools are also too tedious/involved to be sticky in the long run. Computer tools with nonlinear/nontrivial interaction only work in the professional space were you _have_ to deal with the…

Hm, food for thought. Thanks for the insights.

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

#76

Post by dotancohen »

crispinb wrote: post #68
dotancohen wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love to see your android app. I've heard good things about Quiver, but I'm a Linux user. Perhaps the Android app could push me to develop a data-compatible Linux clone.

Sorry, you never will! By 'crude' I really meant it; and not just the UI, but the code. I thrashed it out as a kind of spike and it won't ever be seen by anyone but me (and even I only look reluctantly). Writing a proper Android version is currently tying for first place with a micro.blog ( http://micro.blog ) client for my next project. Should you really be interested in a Linux version, Quiver's author has written…

Thank you. In fact the Quiver data storage seems very easy to work with.
Post reply on HN