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Lookout, here come the down votes! Your comment wasn't full of praise or cheerful enough or generally not acceptable according to a consensus of HN users with down voting privileges. By the way, I'm at -1 karma for the same bullshit reasons...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11013113 and marked it off-topic.
I happily use a github repo for taking my 'programmer notes'. Advantages: 1. Goes well with my programming workflow: Change/Commit/Push 2. Allows me to use my preferred editor 3. No need to worry about backups: Git push and you're done 4. Accessible from anywhere, even if you don't have your computer Is there anything that Quiver would offer that I wouldnt already have with a github repo?
Yeah, I use markdown files in Dropbox with vim and some snazzy plugins. It's very effective for me.
Quiver: A Programmer's Notebook for OSX There, I fixed the title.
Some of the complaints in this thread about the program only existing for Mac, though, are childish. It's fine to ask for another version, but to carp about it petulantly is embarrassing.
I found this bit funny, though:
"Quiver lets you sync all your notes across multiple computers via Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, or any other file-based cloud services."
.. like .. any other application that saves files to disk into a synced folder?
So perhaps I won't have to write my own app for keeping an electronics projects logbook after all. There is a scarcity of reasonably simple apps that let you mix notes with images, without lots of clickery. I will be taking a very close look at this app!
There doesn't seem to be an option for on disk encryption. I don't want to leave my notes on dropbox or another sharing service in plain text - something that Laverrna has baked in. I just wish Laverna was as polished as this app.
If you're on Mac just create a sparse encrypted DMG using Disk Utility, put it into Dropbox, bam you're done. http://blog.fosketts.net/2011/07/05/mac-dropbox-encrypted-vo... I prefer applications to focus on one thing and do it very well, and leave other orthogonal functionality to other applications or the OS to then do the other parts very well. In this respect Quiver is well designed, I tip my hat to the author.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
GP explicitly talks about a "github repo".
git init --bare repo git clone repo clone cd clone git add ... git commit ... git push
Why oh why do people still write standard GUI applications in non-portable platform ?! Its a mystery to me