looks great, but desktop app are so 2000! I would start working on a web version if I were you.
Not everyone wants to store their personal notes in the cloud.
Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X
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#112I've been using this for a couple months after having become annoyed with Evernote always pestering me to move to their paid model. I was able to import all my Evernote content very easily. I love the ability to use Markdown to take notes and the support for VIM commands in code blocks is nice. The only thing I miss from Evernote is access from my iOS devices.
The author claims to be working on an native iOS app right now: "An iOS app is currently under development. A web-based viewer (read-only) is also planned, which will work on Windows, Linux, and possibly Android."
http://yaoganglian.com/2015/12/06/What-is-Quiver/
Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X
#113The more I read about different applications, the more I think you can't understand them unless you look at the underlying data format. Here's Quiver's: https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki/Quiver-Data-Format It's . . . really good. Like, _really_ good. I particularly like that they keep the metadata and the content of the note separate. This is the same thing Camlistore does, and it's nice for version control b…
The more I read about different applications, the more I think you can't understand them unless you look at the underlying data format.
"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious."
— Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month
Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X
#114Been 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.
Can you talk about some of the pros and cons you've found compared to EverNote? I use EverNote a lot, and have dozens of quick programming notes. The MarkDown syntax support here is very nice, but I don't think that alone is going to be enough to make me switch.
I'm not a poweruser of Evernote, and maybe not of Quiver either. The syntax highlighting and Markdown support is nice, but the main thing for me is really how quick and responsive Quiver is, compared to Evernote which is buggy, slow and clunky. All in all, I get the feeling the author looks for the same qualities in an app as I do.
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#115it would be nice if you could customize the cursor movements. block travel is something I find essential for editing with atom/sublime.
Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X
#116Been 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.
I just looked in Quiver 3- if you open Quiver's preferences, the shortcuts pane has the option to assign a hotkey to open a quick entry. this, of course, relies on you having it running already.
Yep, exactly, just having to have the menu bar app running would be even better! (Though I suppose closing the window but leaving the app running gets you close)
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
ReSharper and Visual Studio should be OS X compatible, it's not like every developer is using Windows. Such a monoculture. See? It goes both ways (which, from your edit, I know you understand, but it's work a specific example). This guy's labor of love is a well crafted, thoughtful application for programmers using OS X. There is zero controversy there. Same with any other OS X-only application that Windows or (Li|U)…
If ReSharper was called "The Programmer's Refactoring Suite" or if Visual Studio were called "The Programmer's IDE" I would see your point. I'm not simply referring to the decision to target a particular platform. That's fine. There's nothing wrong with having a narrow focus. But please stop pretending it's anything but a narrow focus.
In what way does ReSharper or Visual Studio communicate Windows only?
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
True! A few months ago I wanted to install Aperture on a new laptop; since it's been pulled from the App store I couldn't find it anymore, and this is what customer support told me: I've reviewed your request, but as much I would like to restore the item for you, I won't be able to download "Aperture" to your account because the amount of time that has passed since this purchase was made prohibits us from restoring i…
Well, unless you just want to install Aperture to export stuff out, that's for the best. Aperture has been EOLed -- it's not advisable to install it even if you could, as you'd be installing deprecated software that can stop working at any future OS update. That wouldn't be much different than any software company not allowing you to download their old program anymore.
Not quite the same. At least you'd have the option to run the old software in a virtual machine or on an old spare piece of hardware.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That sounds like a good first person shooter interface to Scrum/Kanban.
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#120Nice product. I've been using evernote for this kind of stuff for a long time.