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Re: Show HN: NotesHub: cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app

#91

People seem interested in this. But I still wonder what is the advantage over Obsidian.

NotesHub is one-time payment of $4 and Obsidian is $50/yr

Obsidian is free for individual use. The $50/yr is a commercial license. They also have a $4/month sync product (sync across devices with e2e encryption), but you can use icloud, google drive, etc too.

Re: Show HN: NotesHub: cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app

#92
post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NotesHub is one-time payment of $4 and Obsidian is $50/yr

What does the $50 get you with Obsidian? I don’t pay, and I’m able to access my notes from my desktop and mobile apps.

They must be talking about the commercial license.

[0] https://obsidian.md/pricing

Re: Show HN: NotesHub: cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app

#93
Thank you for crafting and sharing this. Have been looking for a modern MacDown[0] replacement, and this fit the bill nicely. Especially appreciate the reasonable, one-time cost and support for local storage.

The "Key Features" section mentions "Export notes to PDF"; please consider adding an "Export notes to HTML" option. Custom theme support for the preview pane via CSS would be helpful too.

[0] https://macdown.uranusjr.com

Re: Show HN: NotesHub: cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app

#94
post #4

This looks good, but in order for me to try this it would need vi support and a Linux install option.

A closed source note-taking app is also a questionable decision regardless. The app looks impressive in terms of features, which is actually a con because you may not be able to find an alternative when the time comes and you can no longer use it for any reason.

tbf; all data stored in markdown theoretically solves that.

I currently use Foam on VSCode for notetakng / personal project management. But 2/3rds of my actual typing tends to be inside NeoVim following the foam format (vscode vs vim on the day is determined more by what i'm working on that day vs anything else). I'm constantly on the lookout for a better* system; but haven't found one yet as sometimes I want a UI; but Grep and quick jots inside the terminal is just very useful.

Re: Show HN: NotesHub: cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app

#95
post #11

I have grown to love markdown in the past year. It is just expressive enough without being burdensomely complex. I appreciate the ability to switch between WYSIWYG and plain text editing modes to achieve precision. In contrast to pure-WYSIWYG editors like Google Docs, the formatting can’t get totally hosed in markdown because you can always dip under the hood and fix stuff. I just wish every rich text editor had acce…

Microsoft Word having a Markdown mode would be _huge_. If I were still using it regularly I'd put one together using WordBASIC/VBAscript.

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Re: Show HN: NotesHub: cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app

#97
I like the look of this a lot, and the support for music notation is a nice touch.

It also sounds like NotesHub might have better out-of-the-box syncing options than Obsidian. Personally, I sync obsidian to a Gitea hosted on a VPS and it works great but that's understandably well beyond what a casual user is going to be willing to do.

The big limitation I'm seeing over competitive alternatives (such as obsidian, logseq, or joplin) is the lack of plug-in support. A robust and passionate community can help flesh out features that otherwise might never be realized particularly with a small dev team.

In fact I was just curious so I did a quick search in the Community Plugin section in Obsidian and there's already a plugin to render ABC notation.

https://github.com/abcjs-music/obsidian-plugin-abcjs

Re: Show HN: NotesHub: cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app

#99

Useful product. Are you planning to add integration with self-hosted Gitlab? There are a few typos on the site you might want to review: https://triplechecker.com/s/259685/about.noteshub.app?v=rLAc...

Thank you for types reporting, fixed all of them. Regarding self-hosted Gitlab, you can already use it with generic Git notebook provider.

Re: Show HN: NotesHub: cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app

#100
post #73

It seems like you re-use the code from the web app to create the hybrid mobile apps. Which tool / framework do you use to achieve this?

I don't rely on any external framework like Capacitor to make hybrid apps, all of the bridging between web and native part is done by myself.
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