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Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
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Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#112This 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
Yes, why the obscure abstraction that isnt analogous to anything?
Tracks are associated with audio and channels with video. This isn't something that should be unique or creative. The notebook/note paradigm works exceedingly well becayse everyone intuitively understands it. I spent two minutes before I just quit. its too bad, the apo seemed nice
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.)
I like the app, but the terminology is confusing. For me and a lot of other people, a track is the lowest level of a music app. People think of it as an atomic unit. Making it a project will confuse most people as no one thinks of it as a project or folder. I assumed a track was a note. If it is a project, a. more appropriate name would be album or collection.
Also, it's inconsistent. Youtube organizes channels because it is a video app and people coming from tv immediately understand. Spotify uses tracks because it is a music app and the term track has been synonomous with song since probably the first record player.
Its a good try, but just mashing up two concepts into one causes confusion
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
https://gist.github.com/kobble-git/87ea625d421177f9e9307c6ce...
If you think that is ok, you're insane.
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#116I 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.
Aaaaaaaand revoked.
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#117I 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.
A timely reminder that online services _have_ to prioritise security if they want to be taken seriously. I guess day one is a good day to learn that lesson though...
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#118I 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.
Ouch. It does seem as if anyone can view any users' content this way.
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, don't want to come of as bullish. Just that I agree with the general sentiment on this comments, that this terminology probably overcomplicates things for no reason. Better to slightly misuse/expand an existing know term like projects or notebooks to cover more than it does now, than to invent a new term that covers all the meanings that apply, but whose meaning is initially unfamiliar to people.
bullish?
bullish
adjective 1. aggressively confident and self-assertive.
E.g. "my way is da best, you should do WHAT I SAY"
Re: Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
#120I 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.
This isn't directly obvious, so I'll clarify. Anyone who has used this app - all of your notes are publicly available by following the link above.
Everyone - revoke access to the app and manually delete all the gists it created in your account.
To view anyone's notes, all you have to do is visit https://gist.github.com/kobble-git/87ea625d421177f9e9307c6ce..., click anyone's "View fork", then follow the trail of gist links in the JSON.