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Show HN: My Thursday-afternoon project: Notey

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Re: Show HN: My Thursday-afternoon project: Notey

#11
Could you perhaps drop the "do you really wanna delete the note?" dialog?

I'd prefer if you just deleted the note and gave me an instant way of getting it back (if I made a mistake).

Similar to how you delete emails in Gmail: it moves them to Trash and then announces "the e-mail's been deleted, click here to undo".

Other than that, I really like it.

Re: Show HN: My Thursday-afternoon project: Notey

#12

Could you perhaps drop the "do you really wanna delete the note?" dialog? I'd prefer if you just deleted the note and gave me an instant way of getting it back (if I made a mistake). Similar to how you delete emails in Gmail: it moves them to Trash and then announces "the e-mail's been deleted, click here to undo". Other than that, I really like it.

That's definitely a much better way of doing it - I'll have a go. Little bit trickier, though - which is why I haven't yet :)

Re: Show HN: My Thursday-afternoon project: Notey

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post #8

On another note, I noticed (through my awesome skills of deduction) that you're using heroku. How are you finding that? Is it easy to use?

It's incredibly cool, I love it. It has a few little restrictions - no long-running processes and nothing heavier than hourly cron jobs - but 90% of the time it's perfect. I run quite a few apps on there, and I can't recommend it highly enough!

Edit: good eye for spotting that it's on Heroku. Nothing slips past you.

Re: Show HN: My Thursday-afternoon project: Notey

#14
post #8

On another note, I noticed (through my awesome skills of deduction) that you're using heroku. How are you finding that? Is it easy to use?

I'm not the author of this, but I've been deploying things on Heroku for a while, and I can't say a single bad thing about it.

The only issues I've had relate to my clumsy use of git.

My sites have had at least 99.9% uptime (apparently, I've never noticed them down), and forgetting about sysadmining is awesome.

Re: Show HN: My Thursday-afternoon project: Notey

#15

Could you perhaps drop the "do you really wanna delete the note?" dialog? I'd prefer if you just deleted the note and gave me an instant way of getting it back (if I made a mistake). Similar to how you delete emails in Gmail: it moves them to Trash and then announces "the e-mail's been deleted, click here to undo". Other than that, I really like it.

That's definitely a much better way of doing it - I'll have a go. Little bit trickier, though - which is why I haven't yet :)

That's true -- most of these little usability tweaks are harder to do than just slam a message box to the page.

But it makes the result much better.

Another idea: you can just not delete the notes at all and have some separate "archive" page where you'd keep them all.

Re: Show HN: My Thursday-afternoon project: Notey

#16
I think of 100 cool things to do with this, which merely means you've done a good job putting it together.

One little nit-pick which is more just a technical note is that you shouldn't plop the same javascript into the note elements for each note. The note div (and all siblings there of) should share the same code and event listener using their position in the dom or their ID to identify them.

It doesn't necessarily change the functionality but one thing I've learned in working with large web applications with a lot of javascript is the least you have embedded into the page, the better.

Re: Show HN: My Thursday-afternoon project: Notey

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post #16

I think of 100 cool things to do with this, which merely means you've done a good job putting it together. One little nit-pick which is more just a technical note is that you shouldn't plop the same javascript into the note elements for each note. The note div (and all siblings there of) should share the same code and event listener using their position in the dom or their ID to identify them. It doesn't necessarily…

Good idea :) It's only a quick hack so far, that sort of stuff will definitely be moved out of there!

Re: Show HN: My Thursday-afternoon project: Notey

#20
post #4

why do you need an email address? Also, it would be cool to be able to just start adding notes to a blank page without signing up - then have the option to sign up and save it. Nice app though :)

There's a click-to-create-a-dummy-account link - but I know what you mean :) I cloned the login from another app without really thinking about it too much; it's one of those apps that could really do with OpenID. Great idea on the sign-up-to-save, though - thanks!

Where is the dummy account link, I can't see it?
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