Curious as to what makes this "beautiful".
Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
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#22This 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/ ?
Just FYI, the site doesn't have a valid HTTPS certificate.
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#23What does this have over Standard Notes? https://standardnotes.org/
Kobble can be used for much more than just note taking. It's more of a general purpose content creation and sharing app.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The model is very similar to other popular apps, like YouTube or Spotify. Instead of organizing songs or videos into channels, you organize tracks.
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#25> 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.
Also, there are plenty of other tools that store data locally and sync to GitHub. This isn't a new idea. Perhaps it's the best implementation of this idea so far (I haven't tried it), but the novelty doesn't seem to be there.
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#2630 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 m…
You create content using Markdown with Kobble. The content can be rendered as simple markdown or as slide decks. Our landing page was created with Kobble as a markdown slide deck.
If you log in (with GitHub), you'll see the rest of the UI.
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The model is very similar to other popular apps, like YouTube or Spotify. Instead of organizing songs or videos into channels, you organize tracks.
But these terms make some amount of intuitive sense on YouTube or Spotify. I don't have to know anything about YouTube or Spotify other than they deal with video clips and music to have a decent idea what a 'track', 'video', 'channel', 'playlist' might mean. These terms don't translate that well to 'notes', though.
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#2830 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 m…
You create content using Markdown with Kobble. The content can be rendered as simple markdown or as slide decks. Our landing page was created with Kobble as a markdown slide deck. If you log in (with GitHub), you'll see the rest of the UI.
It does look neat and definitely beautiful. Thanks I'll login and check it out some more.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The model is very similar to other popular apps, like YouTube or Spotify. Instead of organizing songs or videos into channels, you organize tracks.
YouTube users do not organize videos into channels. Channels are delivery mechanisms. Users organize them with Playlists, which is intuitive for the content.
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
The model is very similar to other popular apps, like YouTube or Spotify. Instead of organizing songs or videos into channels, you organize tracks.
YouTube users do not organize videos into channels. Channels are delivery mechanisms. Users organize them with Playlists, which is intuitive for the content.
Fair enough. We merged the channel/playlist concept.