Cool little app. Check formatting on long notes-- I notice that if the note text exceeds the box, text gets hidden under the save button while typing. Also, after closing a long note, the box does not expand to accomodate a long note, and the text spills across the boundary of the note box.
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#22To OSX users I highly recommend a note taking application called Notational Velocity. If you have a simplenote account you may use it to centrally store (optionally encrypted) the notes database in the cloud.
Interface is spot on. Very keyboard oriented and hacker friendly.
Notation Velocity: http://notational.net/ / http://github.com/scrod/nv
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#23very cool app, I just don't know if I'd keep my window open (in my slew of open tabs) and be able to find it again, to the point where its useful.
Re: Show HN: My Thursday-afternoon project: Notey
#24To OSX users I highly recommend a note taking application called Notational Velocity. If you have a simplenote account you may use it to centrally store (optionally encrypted) the notes database in the cloud. Interface is spot on. Very keyboard oriented and hacker friendly. Notation Velocity: http://notational.net/ / http://github.com/scrod/nv
I love Notational Velocity.
For those who like stickies but don't want to use a web app, your OS X comes with an app call Stickies that does exactly the same.
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#25very cool app, I just don't know if I'd keep my window open (in my slew of open tabs) and be able to find it again, to the point where its useful.
If you're using Firefox try App Tabs. It pins a favicon sized tab to the left of the tab bar.
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#26YALF - Yet another login form
You should work on the assumption that registering users need more mollycoddling - show a version of the reg page as default, and let users click "sign in" if needed. (After all, registered users know what to do). Check out adaptive path's "sign up and ramp up" design patterns for techniques to entice new users.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3418440/may008-signup
Obviously some form of lazy registration would be very useful.
Re: Show HN: My Thursday-afternoon project: Notey
#27To OSX users I highly recommend a note taking application called Notational Velocity. If you have a simplenote account you may use it to centrally store (optionally encrypted) the notes database in the cloud. Interface is spot on. Very keyboard oriented and hacker friendly. Notation Velocity: http://notational.net/ / http://github.com/scrod/nv
Notational Velocity is great.
Quite some time ago I wrote a little web-based note taking app, trying to make it as much like NV as I could -- I really liked NV, but wanted to be able to access my notes from multiple locations. I still use it myself all the time, though I never really polished it or shared it widely.
Re: Show HN: My Thursday-afternoon project: Notey
#28YALF - Yet another login form
If you don't need a ton of information from users, then at the very least offer a Twitter, LinkedIn and/or Facebook login in addition to your own sign-up. Vimeo does this pretty well (with Facebook Connect).
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I've added an "undo" button - it was much easier than I thought :)