This looks really awesome, will test it out. I like that they let you download the trial. Don't like you have to go into the Apple Store to buy the app. There is an app called Dash[1] that has a lot of source code and api documentation stored offline and searchable. It also boasts that you can put your own code snippets in it. So I really wanted to use Dash to keep all my code snippets in, as well as the documentatio…
Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X
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You either make it look beautiful in one place, or make it look like ass in three places. Or, option C: You use Electron, like Slack.
Another option - you can do everything in a terminal. Not everyone finds minimalism beautiful, but - if you do.
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#214The Apple monoculture is strong with this one. When will trendy developer startups realize other environments exist besides iOSX?
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Nobody owes you anything. You want something google it, or build it yourself. Don't you dare belittle a developer for only targeting one platform.
Try reading my responses first. You completely missed my point.
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#217The 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 GUI does have an Undo, and it works exactly as you expect: it reverts changes made in the GUI app. If you have a note open and you make an external change, the app will at some point notice the change and ask you if you want to reload; if you say yes, it reloads from disk and throws away the undo history. I was able to get it to reload content without realizing it changed (by editing the note, then closing it in Quiver before it detected the change and reopening) and this didn't throw away the undo history, which seems like just a fairly simple bug.
Or to put it more generally, Undo works in Quiver pretty much the same way you'd expect it to work in any editor that can reload files that change on disk; the undo history simply doesn't concern itself with undoing changes made outside of the app, and in most cases reloading the file from disk throws away undo history.
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Small flaw though. It only runs on OS-X. I might give it a shot if they decide to support linux. Note: I was being sarcastic when I said small.
I use Zim on Linux. When I saw the Quiver screenshots I thought "hey, this is very similar to Zim!"
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#219Lookout, 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...
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News—especially about downvotes, the gold standard of unsubstantiveness. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11013113 and marked it off-topic.
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If there is an iOS version I'll jump from NVAlt/SimpleNote to this plus dropbox and write a migrator
I would love to migrate away from NVAlt, really hoping that Quiver is the answer. NVAlt is great, but the combo of no tags + no iOS version has been a thorn in my side for years.