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Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

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Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

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Post by tvanantwerp »

mcmillion wrote: post #9
cogwheel wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There seems to be a trend among certain groups of developers to act as if their preferred environment is the only one that exists. Calling this "The Programmer's Notebook" makes it seem like a broadly applicable tool for programmers in general, when it's actually fairly exclusive and specific. There's nothing particularly egregious about this example, but it's part of a larger pattern that is aggravating for any non-…

Simple solution: Make your own tool for your own preferred platform.

That solution doesn't sound very simple, particularly for non-programmers.

Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

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Post by joshstrange »

klum wrote: post #10

Been using this for a few weeks, and it is great! I'm sure that, compared to Evernote, it misses features that are important to some, but it adds a few of its own and is so much faster to use it's in another league entirely. Looking forward to the upcoming iOS version. The one feature I miss the most, besides that, is something like Evernote's menu bar app, for quick entry/scratchpad.

If there is an iOS version I'll jump from NVAlt/SimpleNote to this plus dropbox and write a migrator

Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

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Post by Larrikin »

cogwheel wrote: post #6
moonlighter wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's your point? That it's not available for Windows or Linux? The developer behind Quiver is a one-man shop and happens to be an iOS, OS X and web developer. So what?

There seems to be a trend among certain groups of developers to act as if their preferred environment is the only one that exists. Calling this "The Programmer's Notebook" makes it seem like a broadly applicable tool for programmers in general, when it's actually fairly exclusive and specific. There's nothing particularly egregious about this example, but it's part of a larger pattern that is aggravating for any non-…

If this was an actual startup, your point would make sense. But the portfolio is very obviously one guy making tools he personally thought would be useful, polishing them, and then selling them. It isn't fun to create things that you can't actually use, at least in my opinion.

I'm sure if he was making a lot more money he wouldn't hesitate to release for other platforms, because he would be able to to hire someone to do the other platforms

Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

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Post by mih »

cogwheel wrote: post #4

The Apple monoculture is strong with this one. When will trendy developer startups realize other environments exist besides iOSX?

I hope people start including information on platforms when posting apps that are not cross-platform. Some hint such as 'OSX only', 'iOS only' or 'Windows only' in the title would help uninterested ones among us tone down our expectations or avoid the topic altogether.

Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

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Post by Larrikin »

Love Quiver. I've been using it in grad school and has made it much easier to write out any non-lab assignments that require code snippets or references to code. Haven't use the LaTex cells yet but the Markdown and Code Block cells have been great.

Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

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Post by its2complicated »

Larrikin wrote: post #13
cogwheel wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There seems to be a trend among certain groups of developers to act as if their preferred environment is the only one that exists. Calling this "The Programmer's Notebook" makes it seem like a broadly applicable tool for programmers in general, when it's actually fairly exclusive and specific. There's nothing particularly egregious about this example, but it's part of a larger pattern that is aggravating for any non-…

If this was an actual startup, your point would make sense. But the portfolio is very obviously one guy making tools he personally thought would be useful, polishing them, and then selling them. It isn't fun to create things that you can't actually use, at least in my opinion. I'm sure if he was making a lot more money he wouldn't hesitate to release for other platforms, because he would be able to to hire someone to…

I think it's fun to create anything, especially if it involves programming by myself, outside of a stupid agile environment with Scrum idiots running around preaching the gospel.

Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

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Post by falcolas »

CodexArcanum wrote: post #8
cogwheel wrote: post #4

The Apple monoculture is strong with this one. When will trendy developer startups realize other environments exist besides iOSX?

Speaking of monoculture: people on other OS could always check out emacs org-mode! The Babel component of it allows one to similarly mix code into theirs notes. I've been getting good use out of it lately for doing presentations.

For the vimmers out there, I also suggest looking into vimwiki. Not quite the same as org mode, but a good 80% solution which is integrated nicely into vim.
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