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Re: Hackpad source code

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #19
Numberwang wrote: post #2

Nice of them to put it there. Two points. 1. My confidence in the continued existence of Hackpad is falling by the day and it saddens me as it is where I keep all my stuff. 2. I really would like to get access to the Dropbox Notes beta to see if it is a direct continuation of Hackpad. Seems it is almost impossible to get access to it though.

Notes is really good. It just saddens me that Dropbox does not base those systems on top of Dropbox but somewhere separately. I wish I could just get .md files or something similar in my Dropbox from what's on notes.

What about using something like Notational Velocity / nvAlt (which will keep your notes on Dropbox, and has mobile clients available too)?

Re: Hackpad source code

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Post by Throwaway4alex »

workerbee07 wrote: post #13
mshenfield wrote: post #11

There's a good thread on Hackpad's waaaay premature announcement that they were open sourcing their code on the original hackpad/hackpad repo: https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad/issues/1 . Wonder what the story is and why the actual release was so delayed. EDIT: Spelling and grammar

They fired the guy who made them open source and held the release until their Notes product was ready.

I can only confirm this via a throwaway for lots of reasons, but this is correct.

Note: I am not Alex.

Re: Hackpad source code

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Post by detaro »

anifow wrote: post #23

This was open-sourced a while back. Looks like they hollowed out the repo though. Is that bad etiquette? https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad

No, it wasn't, it was only announced and then took until now to be actually released (see the issue in the repo you linked)

Re: Hackpad source code

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Post by CamperBob2 »

eximius wrote: post #21

Signing in with Google requests to view your contacts. Come on, really?

Hmm. Not only do they make unnecessary, irrelevant, and generally overreaching demands on your privacy, but you get modded down for objecting to it. Sounds like a great product. Where do I sign up?

Absolutely nothing makes me reach for the back button faster than a "X requests access to Y" notification that doesn't explain exactly why X needs access to Y, and what X will do with its newly-granted access.

Re: Hackpad source code

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Post by patcon »

blacksmith_tb wrote: post #24
the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notes is really good. It just saddens me that Dropbox does not base those systems on top of Dropbox but somewhere separately. I wish I could just get .md files or something similar in my Dropbox from what's on notes.

What about using something like Notational Velocity / nvAlt (which will keep your notes on Dropbox, and has mobile clients available too)?

Writeily Pro is an awesome Android app, and open source. It can save its files to any directory on your SD card, so as long as you get that directory syncing, you're good to go. ie. it's sync service agnostic

http://writeily.me/

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