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

#11
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Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub

#13
post #3

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

Everything in Kobble can be shared. Channels are there to organize tracks - your tracks and tracks from other users.

Kobble can be used for much more than just note taking. It's meant to share meaningful content with other users. A track is like a project, and channels make it easy to share them.

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

#14
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.

Especially when you can access notes on your own IMAP server with Apple Notes.

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

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post #13
post #3

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

Everything in Kobble can be shared. Channels are there to organize tracks - your tracks and tracks from other users. Kobble can be used for much more than just note taking. It's meant to share meaningful content with other users. A track is like a project, and channels make it easy to share them.

Why did you choose obscure names instead of something everyone could understand right away? To me, it seems "channels" are just "groups"/"categories"/"folders" and "tracks" are just "notes"?

The fact that you need to explain it is a good indicator that it's unnecessarily complex.

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

#17

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.

I commented a while ago with the list of note apps I was considering to replace Evernote. Might save you some time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13642527

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

#18
post #3

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

Seen https://blankslate.io/?

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

#19
30 second impression:

The landing page has side arrows? Is this meant to be a Powerpoint slides deck type app?

Why isn't it just a 1 page vertical scroll to showcase the 'notes app'? Or do all the pages in notes have to be a click page arrow?

edit: I looked around a little more (never logged in) but all I ever saw was the slides. I am still not sure if that's the only mode, or is there another preview showing other modes/styles of notes? As boring as it may be, I'd love to see some generic notes examples: grocery list, todo, programmer's notes, school notes, lorem ipsums, or anything more representative of a real world notes and less of just listed features.

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

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post #8
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"

Exactly. I see very little difference whether my notes are stored in a github repo or a google drive folder. In either case they are under "my" account but I don't think I would say that I really "own" the data because either service could hypothetically be gone tomorrow.
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