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

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Post by danenania »

kobble wrote: post #74
ohyeshedid wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, uh, why are you introducing it as a notes app? You've got a good start to something; take two steps back, consume and digest the feedback you're getting, then use it to better your approach.

Good point. There is only so much you can say in one line on HN. Marketing is tough. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Trying to do many things is a classic early mistake. Instead of being a great app for one thing you become a mediocre app for lots of things.

First make a notes app that people love. This will be harder than you think. Once you've done that and have enthusiastic users it will be much easier to move into other areas.

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

#102

Post by Graphon1 »

kobble wrote: post #37
ams6110 wrote: post #20

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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.

That's precisely why we use GitHub. It's unlikely to be gone tomorrow. No data is stored on our servers. In fact, we don't even see it. The data is transferred directly from your browser to GitHub.

Weird that everything is saved as a gist. I feel like it would make more sense to store them in one repo. I went looking for the notes I created in github, and found a bunch of flat gists. ??

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

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Post by ytjohn »

grovegames wrote: post #39
kobble wrote: post #32

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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.)

If they are just like projects, then call them projects. You're using music and video names for paper analog components. You're spending a lot of time defending the naming here. I'd recommend taking notes, and changing the naming. Also, add some mechanism where I can just hit a + button or something, and can start adding a note right away. I don't want to have to immediately organize all notes into a draconian struct…

In the (desktop) editor [quiver] that I use, all new note go into a notebook called "Inbox". I can start writing immediately and later move it a more appropriate notebook.

[quiver]: http://happenapps.com/#quiver

Also, check out http://standardnotes.org/

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

#104

Post by paulcole »

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.

>Kobble can be used for much more than just note taking.

You can see the confusion, given that you described it as a "notes app" in your submission title.

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

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Post by ytjohn »

abrussak wrote: post #90

I think I'm able to view all other gists. If I open the Gist on https://gist.github.com/ then go to the original gist at 'kobble-git/channel-groups.json' I can navigate to all the forks and see data for other users.

Oh wow. Look at that.

https://gist.github.com/kobble-git/87ea625d421177f9e9307c6ce...

And each fork is a link to a secret gist.

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

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Post by paulcole »

danenania wrote: post #101
kobble wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point. There is only so much you can say in one line on HN. Marketing is tough. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Trying to do many things is a classic early mistake. Instead of being a great app for one thing you become a mediocre app for lots of things. First make a notes app that people love. This will be harder than you think. Once you've done that and have enthusiastic users it will be much easier to move into other areas.

>First make a notes app that people love. This will be harder than you think. Once you've done that and have enthusiastic users it will be much easier to move into other areas.

Hasn't this been the Evernote Recipe For Disaster?

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

#107

Post by dabernathy89 »

tommynicholas wrote: post #73
Etheryte wrote: post #22

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Just FYI, the site doesn't have a valid HTTPS certificate.

(Creator here) ugh that's such a bummer. I didn't know that I don't see that in my browsers. Anyone have a suggestion for a better cert I could get? Starcom was so nice and simple but seems like it's causing issues for users now that Mozilla and Google are going to distrust the cert.

Quick suggestion - the toggle in the bottom left screen switches between 'off' and 'on' but gives no visual indication about which one is currently selected (by clicking am I going to or from 'off')?

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

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Post by peterburkimsher »

I like the idea of saving directly to Github. I'm using Github API for dictionary changes in my Chinese text translator that I'll release soon.

The user interface is, indeed, beautiful. But that's not enough to make me use it.

Notes on my iPhone can't be stored in a hierarchy of subfolders. In order to do that, I made my own notes app in PHP, but it's pretty awful. I plan to port it to JS+Github, but I have other priorities right now.

Is it possible to only commit changes to a file using git, instead of re-uploading the whole file? I wish there was an easy way to append to a file without a download-append-upload process. Please teach me if you know how to do this in git!

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

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Post by tommynicholas »

dabernathy89 wrote: post #107
tommynicholas wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(Creator here) ugh that's such a bummer. I didn't know that I don't see that in my browsers. Anyone have a suggestion for a better cert I could get? Starcom was so nice and simple but seems like it's causing issues for users now that Mozilla and Google are going to distrust the cert.

Quick suggestion - the toggle in the bottom left screen switches between 'off' and 'on' but gives no visual indication about which one is currently selected (by clicking am I going to or from 'off')?

Yeah it should just be a switch or something. I agree.

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

#110

Post by awqrre »

ihattendorf wrote: post #43
Etheryte wrote: post #22

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Just FYI, the site doesn't have a valid HTTPS certificate.

It's because it was issued by StartCom. https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/10/24/distrusting-new... https://security.googleblog.com/2016/10/distrusting-wosign-a...

I use Firefox 53 and this certificate appears to be valid in my Browser (green lock), I wonder why...
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