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Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

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I never used Notational Velocity, but this seems like an awesome UI to use for Notes. As long as you have powerful search you can always find your notes by their content and create new ones when the ones you find aren't relevant. How many times I've created a new note related to something I wrote about before, but didn't want to search for. Now I'd basically be forced to search for it when I tried to create the new n…

It really is great, I've been using it for years -- and all my notes are stored as plain-text (markdown) files. Only downside is images really. If you want to try it, check out this more-recently-updated fork. The creator of the fork is apparently working on a replacement that I'm rather looking forward to trying. http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

Thanks for this. I've been using Notational Velocity for years and often occasionally looked for an update but found none.

What's the replacement you mentioned? I didn't see any info on the linked site.

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

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That's awesome ! Would you be able to explain what frameworks, etc you used to create it. I'm just learning to program. As in front end, back end etc.

High-level details: Notational runs on Firebase (serverless) and uses Vue.js (along with Vuex and vue-router). For more details, email me at tom@meagher.co. I'm happy to help anyone learning to code/build apps.

Did you use some kind of UI framework? Is it just bootstrap? This design is awesome. I _love_ the minimal direction we're heading.

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

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Vue.js is awesome! I am glad to see so many more people adopting it for serious projects.

What are your favourite libraries/extensions (for want of a better term) to use with it? I'm on my first VueJS 2 project, and found a number which are abandoned...

Vuex (https://github.com/vuejs/vuex) and vue-router (https://github.com/vuejs/vue-router) are nothing flashy, yet really solid. There are tons more in the awesome-vue repo (https://github.com/vuejs/awesome-vue).

Even though Vue has less libraries/extensions than something like React, the core: state management, routing, Vue component spec are quite good.

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

High-level details: Notational runs on Firebase (serverless) and uses Vue.js (along with Vuex and vue-router). For more details, email me at tom@meagher.co. I'm happy to help anyone learning to code/build apps.

Did you use some kind of UI framework? Is it just bootstrap? This design is awesome. I _love_ the minimal direction we're heading.

Thanks! No UI framework just custom SCSS. Thinking about turning it into a micro-framework if I have time.

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, open to suggestions! The point is to use the keyboard for everything so mobile is tricky. Also, all the code is on GitHub ( https://github.com/tmm/notational ).

You could add a + button on the left of the "search or create" field. No risk of accidentally touching the search icon that way.

Great idea! That will definitely make it's way in.

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

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Shortcuts do not work at all for me on OSX, I'd try this once that is fixed.

It was built using macOS so not sure what the problem is. If you want to message me more specifics at tom@meagher.co, I can start looking into it.

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

#69

Really Nice! Small nitpick: Displays really well on mobile, however, creating a note requires user to hit ctrl+enter, which is not easy to do on a phone.

Thanks for the feedback! Someone mentioned this earlier and I am going to add something to make it easier.

Re: Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity

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NV is an awesome app, glad to see it now as a webapp too. The only thing I'd ask for is the short key for creating a new note to be cmd + enter for us mac people.

I don't think this comment should be dead - adamcccc's confusion illustrates the interesting naming used for this product and how it can cause confusion. Looks like NV[0] has seen and approved of it, but it still seems like an odd choice.

[0] https://github.com/tmm/notational/issues/2

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