Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck

Post by krsdcbl » Thu, Dec 27, 2018, 4:43 PM UTC

bgdam wrote: post #68

krsdcbl wrote: post #62

I kinda don't get why people end up building electron apps to, essentially, "act like it's native". The app looks absolutely awesome, but i would have loved to just see it run in the browser, I'm kinda reluctant to install yet another memory-hog for basic tasks.

One important reason people choose to use Electron instead of opening the app in a Browser window, is that the browser blocks a lot of standard keyboard shortcuts. So for example, if you want to capture Ctrl+Tab and move to the next note, based on that, well, you can only do that in Electron. Another UX based reason, is that native menus offer a better UX than having to put buttons for each and every action inside th…

Post by Terretta » Thu, Dec 27, 2018, 5:55 PM UTC

writepub wrote: post #34

Why is "No WYSIWYG" your stated goal? Unless your target is an audience of developers, WYSIWYG is making Microsoft a cool $30B/year. Also, Typora - possibly the most popular markdown editor, is WYSIWYG. Shameless plug: Please try https://writepubapp.github.io/download/ It is a WYSIWYG Markdown editor with built-in git, without having to learn either.

Post by writepub » Thu, Dec 27, 2018, 8:11 PM UTC

Terretta wrote: post #93

writepub wrote: post #34

Why is "No WYSIWYG" your stated goal? Unless your target is an audience of developers, WYSIWYG is making Microsoft a cool $30B/year. Also, Typora - possibly the most popular markdown editor, is WYSIWYG. Shameless plug: Please try https://writepubapp.github.io/download/ It is a WYSIWYG Markdown editor with built-in git, without having to learn either.

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Post by roryisok » Fri, Dec 28, 2018, 12:59 AM UTC

krsdcbl wrote: post #62

I kinda don't get why people end up building electron apps to, essentially, "act like it's native". The app looks absolutely awesome, but i would have loved to just see it run in the browser, I'm kinda reluctant to install yet another memory-hog for basic tasks.

Post by stephenr » Fri, Dec 28, 2018, 1:54 AM UTC

fabiospampinato wrote: post #85

zoomablemind wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Second that. Markdown is about lightweight, requiring just a text editor and a few neurons to memorize the markup. Markdown already handles 'attachments' via tag for image or HTML anchor for other file types. Prettify via CSS. Global search and replace indeed needs an extra effort. If faced with such a need, I'd just use any of active IDEs already installed, well, Atom should do.

Adding "attachments" like that, the way Boostnote also does it, is not portable nor ergonomic, since you need the full path to the file in question or you need to upload it somewhere.