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Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

#92

I read through the comments, here are the "core" issues/features an app like that has to meet: - 1. Fast startup - 2. Fast adding an extra note - 3. Editing - 4. Sync - 5. Crossplatform - 6. Easy to forward messages - 7. Stable/Trusted/(Encrypted?) 2, 4, and 5 are the main ones probably - Telegram lacks 1 (fyi I use telegram) - WhatsApp lacks 1 and kinda 3 - Discord lacks 1 2 and 6 (I don't remember discord working w…

I think Telegram is plenty fast enough re:(1) on Android especially with a Home screen shortcut to your private Channel. It just gets quickly cluttered with mixing messages and file uploads.

Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

#93

It looks great! I'm building https://histre.com/ and I find that some people do prefer to use a chat app they're already using. I built a Telegram bot so that they can keep taking notes on Telegram and not have to switch, but still get all the benefits of a real knowledge tool: https://histre.com/features/take-notes-with-telegram/ Perhaps you could build something like that to ease the transition?

Like the other commenter I also had a very hard time connecting your main landing page to that Telegram feature. I even checked if you accidentally posted the wrong url.

A lot of landing pages (especially built by technical people) have the same issue, they list a bunch of "features" but don't talk about the actual problem that is being solved.

Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

#94

It looks great! I'm building https://histre.com/ and I find that some people do prefer to use a chat app they're already using. I built a Telegram bot so that they can keep taking notes on Telegram and not have to switch, but still get all the benefits of a real knowledge tool: https://histre.com/features/take-notes-with-telegram/ Perhaps you could build something like that to ease the transition?

This looks potentially neat, but I'm having a ton of trouble figuring out what this actually _is_ from your website.

Thanks, I need to fix that.

It is primarily a knowledge management tool with a ton of integrations to get data in, and also get it out easily, has powerful search etc.

Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

#95
post #93

It looks great! I'm building https://histre.com/ and I find that some people do prefer to use a chat app they're already using. I built a Telegram bot so that they can keep taking notes on Telegram and not have to switch, but still get all the benefits of a real knowledge tool: https://histre.com/features/take-notes-with-telegram/ Perhaps you could build something like that to ease the transition?

Like the other commenter I also had a very hard time connecting your main landing page to that Telegram feature. I even checked if you accidentally posted the wrong url. A lot of landing pages (especially built by technical people) have the same issue, they list a bunch of "features" but don't talk about the actual problem that is being solved.

Yeah that's 100% my problem. I'll work on it. I really appreciate the feedback.

Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

#96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I text myself notes, and it’s not because I don’t want to use another app, but because I like the streaming append-only log style of notes. I don’t like how hard it is to search through them stores in iMessage. I’ve thought about building an app like this, just since I haven’t been able to find one. So the problem does exist, though it’s not for you. And it’s plainly not the case that if people wanted these features…

Sure, but I just use a personal Telegram channel for this. It's quite well-searchable too, and it serves me 95% perfectly.

This is my flow too. I know it’s silly, but 90% of why I pay for premium is just for the tags in my saved notes messages.

Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

#97
post #91

Very interesting app. I wish there existed more "timeline-based note-taking" apps. Are there any plans to let the user "aggregate" these notes in some form over time? cf. "Fold" idea in https://github.com/srid/chronicle?tab=readme-ov-file#folds

Thank you! I plan to implement features like a calendar view to make it easier to review notes over time. The “Fold” idea in Chronicle looks quite interesting. I’ll try it out to see how it works. Thanks for the suggestion!

Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

#99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tagging is actually available for free, so just wanted to correct that.

Huh? I just tried tagging a message, which opens a popup for Telegram Premium. Also web search brings up "Tags are already available to all Telegram Premium users." from Telegram website - it's an old post, but I don't see anything anywhere that says otherwise. Or do you mean #hashtags?

They're (OP) almost definitely referring to their own service which has tagging built in for free.

Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

#100

I've been look for exactly this! (or planning to build it) I abuse the telegram "Saved" channel to send myself thoughts, notes, reminders, pics, etc as if I'm chatting to the me who's back at his desk. I wanted to get away from that and not rely on telegram. Unfortunately I'm an android user so I'll probably have to keep using Telegram for the time being. Is there an android client in the works?

If you aren't opposed to Google, "Keep" seems to be fairly well suited for this kind of thing. You can share to it easily on android, it supports a bunch of organizational things (labels, colors, archiving) but they're not in the way if you want to ignore them, and the browser version works great. If you're attached to the chat style, then it might not be perfect, but it's easy to use it as a continually appended log style experience.
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