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Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub

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This feels excessively complicated to me. what's a track? what's a channel? why do I need filenames for everything? why does it take 3 minutes for a new user to write a single line of 'note' ?

a beautiful notes app (to me) would be one where you start with writing a note

Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub

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Interesting tool, I like that it works with GitHub and the repo support will be cool to see.

The design is neat (I generally like dark themes) although the fading animations got a bit annoying after a few minutes using it. Some of the dialogs could do with supporting common shortcuts (e.g. enter to create a new track, escape to close the dialogs). Sometimes I managed to click outside of the presentation view without realising, and then left/right arrow keys stopped working. Sometimes I wasn't sure where to find certain functions (e.g. I looked for "Edit" on a presentation item on the context menu, but then realised I had to click it and then click the pencil icon). I couldn't get the Share functionality to work, and wasn't sure why it was in its own context menu with no other items.

I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the tracks/channels distinction. I can understand creating a project to store presentations (items) in, but why is there another level in Kobble?

Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub

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> Kobble is the only app available where you own all of your data.

What? I find that highly unlikely. In what way do I not "own" the texts I write in–for example–Apple's Notes.app?

And what is even meant by "own"? Even for something like Facebook, I'm pretty sure that I still own the copyright for texts I write in their app.

Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub

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post #6

> Kobble is the only app available where you own all of your data. What? I find that highly unlikely. In what way do I not "own" the texts I write in–for example–Apple's Notes.app? And what is even meant by "own"? Even for something like Facebook, I'm pretty sure that I still own the copyright for texts I write in their app.

Normally I'd expect something like "it is stored under your control" for the slogan "own your data", but that doesn't square with "saves directly to GitHub"

Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub

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What does this have over Standard Notes? https://standardnotes.org/

thanks for sharing this, I've been looking for something like this for awhile. I've just been using wrangler and having a bunch of docs open in the side window. I also tried using scribbleton, but hate how big everything is. This is great.

Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub

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post #5

Interesting tool, I like that it works with GitHub and the repo support will be cool to see. The design is neat (I generally like dark themes) although the fading animations got a bit annoying after a few minutes using it. Some of the dialogs could do with supporting common shortcuts (e.g. enter to create a new track, escape to close the dialogs). Sometimes I managed to click outside of the presentation view without…

As you mention, a track is like a project. It's a tree of items, and the items can be markdown, presentations, links, etc.

Channels are for organizing tracks. Everything in Kobble can be shared. So say you make a track for some project and want to share it. Another user can add your track to a channel to follow it.

It's similar to sharing in YouTube or Spotify, except that instead of grouping videos or songs in channels, you're grouping tracks.

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