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

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Post by sunpazed »

I've used Milanote in beta for the last few months - and I can attest, it's a great platform for creative thinking. Calling it a "notes app" falls short of how good it is.

Milanote has replaced my previous workflow — an entire wall of post-its, and roughly half a dozen moleskines - with pages of others tacked in between the sheets.

There's a few cool features too — my favourite being ‘view as document’. It takes series of interconnected ideas, and then serialises them into a linear narrative that can be viewed as a document. Perfect for presenting your idea to stakeholders.

I particularly like Milanote not only because it helps me to visualise my ideas, but I can ‘reflow’ and organise them in ways that helps me to make connections between ideas I never saw before. It helps me be a better creative thinker.

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

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Post by wingerlang »

sunpazed wrote: post #2

I've used Milanote in beta for the last few months - and I can attest, it's a great platform for creative thinking. Calling it a "notes app" falls short of how good it is. Milanote has replaced my previous workflow — an entire wall of post-its, and roughly half a dozen moleskines - with pages of others tacked in between the sheets. There's a few cool features too — my favourite being ‘view as document’. It takes seri…

Is it a web app? It isn't obvious from their website and I can't find information. I also don't feel like signing up.

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

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Post by sunpazed »

wingerlang wrote: post #3
sunpazed wrote: post #2

I've used Milanote in beta for the last few months - and I can attest, it's a great platform for creative thinking. Calling it a "notes app" falls short of how good it is. Milanote has replaced my previous workflow — an entire wall of post-its, and roughly half a dozen moleskines - with pages of others tacked in between the sheets. There's a few cool features too — my favourite being ‘view as document’. It takes seri…

Is it a web app? It isn't obvious from their website and I can't find information. I also don't feel like signing up.

Yes. It's a webapp.

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

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Post by mntmn »

We made 5 or 6 major versions of a similar tool from 2011-now (https://spacedeck.com), in the end it failed to monetize in a significant way. We will probably open-source it soon to provide a continuity path for the (relatively small) core userbase.

Edit: You made some really good UX detail choices: - Grid that snaps on releasing items - Column object (smart!) - Omitting zoom is also probably a good idea (complicates a lot of stuff in the browser: fighting with native zoom, text rendering bugs in firefox etc) - In general being very resistant against feature creep is probably a good idea (in our case, users demanded tons and tons of stuff to be added)

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

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Post by hiphopyo »

My recent findings is that it's better to not take any notes at all. Instead of adding some item to your todo list, do it immediately and don't send it off like some nasty surprise to your future self. The smaller my notes.txt the less complications I have to worry about and I can go on living a happy and fulfilled life.

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

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Post by oliebol »

mntmn wrote: post #6

We made 5 or 6 major versions of a similar tool from 2011-now ( https://spacedeck.com ), in the end it failed to monetize in a significant way. We will probably open-source it soon to provide a continuity path for the (relatively small) core userbase. Edit: You made some really good UX detail choices: - Grid that snaps on releasing items - Column object (smart!) - Omitting zoom is also probably a good idea (complicat…

Thanks! We're definitely trying to keep it pretty simple—Spacedeck looks cool too :)

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

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Post by therealmarv »

Hm, no, simply cannot afford 144$/y for another cloud note system. Please, we need this: Note taking done right: Android, iOS, Desktop, Markdown & HTML & Pictures, easy flat file format (preferred markdown), Web clipper, archive notes, offline and do this all without wasting whitespace (no document editor like Evernote) and good sync and instant search results while you type. <- would spend a bigger double digit number $ on this, but no subscription. Closest I've found is Google Keep.

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

therealmarv wrote: post #9

Hm, no, simply cannot afford 144$/y for another cloud note system. Please, we need this: Note taking done right: Android, iOS, Desktop, Markdown & HTML & Pictures, easy flat file format (preferred markdown), Web clipper, archive notes, offline and do this all without wasting whitespace (no document editor like Evernote) and good sync and instant search results while you type. <- would spend a bigger double digit numb…

The closest to this I found is Org Mode in Emacs. Pros and cons:

  + it's free
  + it's a flat, text format, human-readable and editable even outside Org Mode
  + has one of the best table editors ever
  + off-line first, no cloud bullshit
  + can handle source code and images pretty well
  + awesome export options - including LaTeX, HTML and nicely formatted UTF-8 plaintext
  + infinite flexibility of Emacs

  - infinite flexibility of Emacs
  - not Markdown (for those who care)
  - you have to do sync yourself (I do with Dropbox)
  - limited support for mobile (Orgzly is OK and works w/ Dropbox sync, but very limited
    functionality compared to what Org Mode in Emacs provides)
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