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Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by samwillis »

graeme wrote: post #88
telekid wrote: post #77

Apple should buy you. This is the kind of new feature that I want out of an OS update. It's incredibly useful, but requires deep system integration to work perfectly. Unfortunately, without access to private APIs, I imagine you're going to hit a wall sooner than later. For example, right now, moving a file breaks its relationship with a note, and an open file's notes aren't associated with the file's finder icon. I i…

>For example, right now, moving a file breaks its relationship with a note, and an open file's notes aren't associated with the file's finder icon. That's interesting. Is there a workaround or quick way to transfer notes? I often rearrange files.

They could be associated with a hash of the file rather than its path?

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by ThomPete »

graeme wrote: post #88
telekid wrote: post #77

Apple should buy you. This is the kind of new feature that I want out of an OS update. It's incredibly useful, but requires deep system integration to work perfectly. Unfortunately, without access to private APIs, I imagine you're going to hit a wall sooner than later. For example, right now, moving a file breaks its relationship with a note, and an open file's notes aren't associated with the file's finder icon. I i…

>For example, right now, moving a file breaks its relationship with a note, and an open file's notes aren't associated with the file's finder icon. That's interesting. Is there a workaround or quick way to transfer notes? I often rearrange files.

There kind of are it just requires a little more work on our end. We will hopefully be able to share that with people soon.

Interestingly and anecdotally when moved around in dropbox it seems to keep it's relationship.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by ThomPete »

BryanB55 wrote: post #73

This would probably be pretty useful for my team if it had a Dropbox integration where we can leave notes on shared dropbox files. Nice work!

Besides bug hunting and applescript customization this is on the top of our list and we have an idea on how to do it.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by spne »

ThomPete wrote: post #5

Hi everyone I could write a whole book about this project and what i had to go through to get it out but finally I think its there. Ghostnote allow you to add notes to almost anything on your mac. Files, folders, applications, websites and even documents open inside applications (ex a photoshop document). I made it because I am not good at structuring and often just need notes for specific context but soon realized t…

Is there a shortcut key to create a new note or open a note (if one exists for the current document)?

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

#95

Post by saralily »

amelius wrote: post #89
jjd1103 wrote: post #28

Holy crap. Looked at the site and thought, "hey, pretty cool. I don't know what I would use it for, though." And then I watched the video and have been coming up with use cases non-stop. Starting with adding vim key-bindings I'm trying to learn to iTerm. Bye-bye yellow-stickies all over my monitor!

Question, though. What if your notes are too context specific. So, for example, the note would bind to the specific file you are viewing in vim, whereas the contents of the note would be helpful for any file opened in vim?

From the video it looks like you can have a note specific to a terminal window open to vim.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

#96

Post by Geee »

bshimmin wrote: post #58
chr15 wrote: post #15

Your logo looks similar to Ghostly's http://www.theghostlystore.com/

It also looks similar to a goodly proportion of the results of a Google image search for "cute ghost"... which I think is inevitably what happens when you use a generically recognisable device like that.

All of them are variations of Pacman's ghost.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by ThomPete »

spne wrote: post #94
ThomPete wrote: post #5

Hi everyone I could write a whole book about this project and what i had to go through to get it out but finally I think its there. Ghostnote allow you to add notes to almost anything on your mac. Files, folders, applications, websites and even documents open inside applications (ex a photoshop document). I made it because I am not good at structuring and often just need notes for specific context but soon realized t…

Is there a shortcut key to create a new note or open a note (if one exists for the current document)?

Not yet but coming up

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

#99

Post by ThomPete »

sondh wrote: post #86

Nice idea and beautiful execution. One question though: If I detach and move between tabs in Chrome / Safari by keyboard shortcut, the note does not recognize the change of tab. Is this because I'm using 10.9 or is it a bug? And you have a typo at http://www.ghostnoteapp.com/appsuggestions/ ("mailingist").

It's a bug we will fix this.

Thanks for the catch!

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

#100

Post by ThomPete »

aareet wrote: post #81

Looks very useful, before I buy, two questions: 1. Do you support any keyboard combinations to add or view notes while a folder or document has focus? 2. Are the notes stored on disk or in a cloud account somewhere?

Hey thanks.

1. Not yet but coming up 2. Stored on disk for now but will change later.

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