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

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Post by ronilan »

duiker101 wrote: post #58
ronilan wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But your username says otherwise ;) More seriously - Why so? I think that: 1. It's on topic. 2. It's a project not a product. I ain't sellin anything. 3. There is no thunder to steal. Usually, more comments, more votes, more rain for the show. 4. Shameless has to be shameless. 5. It adds to the discussion. See, it just did...

It's like going to the inauguration of some new shop giving out flyers for your own competing shop. It's just bad taste.

I think it is like coming to a jam session and blowing your trumpet with a whimsical tune.

There is no competition.

P.S - I've reread this: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html just to make sure I wasn't in the wrong.

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

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Post by devopsproject »

kobble wrote: post #30
mikejmoffitt wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

folders and pages would have been better.

model it after something in the real world before you appropriate words from another paradigm

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

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Post by coldtea »

kobble wrote: post #13
coalaber wrote: 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.

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

I first want to write -- directly, as a thought/task/etc comes to me, and only later to organize. And much later I'd care to share my note (if at all).

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

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Post by coldtea »

kobble wrote: post #24
Etheryte wrote: post #16

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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.

>The model is very similar to other popular apps, like YouTube or Spotify. Instead of organizing songs or videos into channels, you organize tracks.

Spotify has Playlists and Songs. Both are domain-related concepts (the domain being music).

YouTube has Videos, Playlists, and Channels, again all domain-related concepts, referring to historical domain terminology (Channel as in "your private TV channel", where you create content for others to view).

So both services use terms apt to their use.

Channels and Tracks are not concepts/terms related to note taking. Thus, the analogy to YouTube's and Spotify's use of their own terms is broken.

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

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Post by coldtea »

kobble wrote: post #32
pvg wrote: post #27

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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.

Kobble can be used for much more than just notes. You organize 'tracks', which are more like projects. Tracks can contain notes, but also more meaningful content. Anything you can create with markdown (plus links, etc.)

When your users tell you otherwise, maybe it's not prudent to insist on terminology choice?

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

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Post by littlehood »

BlackjackCF wrote: post #56
insomniacity wrote: post #4

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

Oh my god, thank you. This is something I've been looking for as a replacement to Quiver. I love Quiver, but it no longer cuts it since I've migrated to Linux.

I've using Standard Notes for almost three months already. It's neat, but "standard editor" is kind of weak (like not supporting tab to indent), I have to try using the extended editor. Everything syncs nicely BUT on two occassions a tag got duplicated with some of the notes. I have no idea how - but at that time I had it open on two desktops. Not sure how nicely the encryption is done. You can create your own server for notes too!
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