I thought of giving it a try at work, but it needs admin privileges to install (on windows) :(
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Native desktop development is dead.
Not for the discerning users. McDonalds didn't put Peter Luger out of business.
Hi, please don't take this the wrong way I develop neither native apps, nor electron apps, I'm just curious.
Is the hostility towards electron mostly from native app developers who are feeling their value diminished, and/or their careers threatened by the advent of electron?
Is this love for 'develop separately for 3 different platforms' backed by some practical/rational thinking?
Edit: Also I feel your analogy is a false equivalence. Perhaps a better analogy would be between a wood fire over, and an electric one.
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#64The problem for me isn't that I can't find a note taking app that works. My problem is I don't know how to take notes. I always read on people favoring apps and using xyz for the past decade. All I wonder is what do these people put in their notes, do they read back often, and how can I learn to get my state of mind in a note taking app like they do?
I live out of my notes, but part of that is due to the format of my notes and how I work, in general. While learning a new subject (almost always from a big, fat, e-book), I take notes as I skim/scan the material. I'll go from cover to cover about 4-5 times, enhancing my notes each time. I re-read my notes in-between reading the book to see what I don't understand from my notes. These notes, later, become a reference…
Thanks for the elaborate reply.
> I get where you're at, though. You don't get value from taking notes until you've taken a lot of notes and it takes forming the habit of taking notes to get that value
Exactly, I think.. I struggle with the details of the notes I take. Maybe it is just practice. Do I take a one-liner, a paragraph? Pictures? In between?
My current way of working is to have a Todoist [0] filled with tasks, properly tagged and assigned to projects. Emails that need action go into Todoist, tasks from meetings go into Todoist, any tasks I come up with, Todoist. Next to this I have a Pocket [1] filled with articles, both to read later but I also use it as reference material and future use. Also properly tagged (most of times).
Now that leaves only notes that are not actions. Either from content that is too large to have in my pocket (say longer than a blog post) or not from any content I can send to Pocket at all. Probably the freeflow nature of these comments is what makes it hard for me to write them down. Granularity, quality, and governance are hard here. On my previous tries I either ended up with a huge pile of messy notes I never used or with too few notes that didn't accurately cover my thoughts at the time, i.e. needed to redo the process the note originated from.
I'll try again. Maybe this time things go right. If it is practice there is no shortcut to become a successful note-taker it seems.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not for the discerning users. McDonalds didn't put Peter Luger out of business.
Hi, please don't take this the wrong way I develop neither native apps, nor electron apps, I'm just curious. Is the hostility towards electron mostly from native app developers who are feeling their value diminished, and/or their careers threatened by the advent of electron? Is this love for 'develop separately for 3 different platforms' backed by some practical/rational thinking? Edit: Also I feel your analogy is a…
>Is the hostility towards electron mostly from native app developers who are feeling their value diminished, and/or their careers threatened by the advent of electron?
I'm a web developer (though backend these days) myself.
My hostility towards Electron is purely as an end-user.
>Is this love for 'develop separately for 3 different platforms' backed by some practical/rational thinking?
Performance, memory, speed, following the platforms conventions and taking full advantage of its APIs, looking and behaving best for each platform.
So, anything else except "put something out there fast / attract JS programmers" (which are valid concerns too, but not user-first ones).
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#66What is the license?
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi, please don't take this the wrong way I develop neither native apps, nor electron apps, I'm just curious. Is the hostility towards electron mostly from native app developers who are feeling their value diminished, and/or their careers threatened by the advent of electron? Is this love for 'develop separately for 3 different platforms' backed by some practical/rational thinking? Edit: Also I feel your analogy is a…
> Is the hostility towards electron mostly from native app developers who are feeling their value diminished, and/or their careers threatened by the advent of electron? I'm a web developer (though backend these days) myself. My hostility towards Electron is purely as an end-user. > Is this love for 'develop separately for 3 different platforms' backed by some practical/rational thinking? Performance, memory, speed, f…
An application that actually exists for my platform is superior to a better made application that needs to be ported across.
It has very little to do with lazy developers. It just takes more resources to release native applications for all three major desktop platforms.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Is the hostility towards electron mostly from native app developers who are feeling their value diminished, and/or their careers threatened by the advent of electron? I'm a web developer (though backend these days) myself. My hostility towards Electron is purely as an end-user. > Is this love for 'develop separately for 3 different platforms' backed by some practical/rational thinking? Performance, memory, speed, f…
An application that actually exists for my platform is superior to a better made application that needs to be ported across. It has very little to do with lazy developers. It just takes more resources to release native applications for all three major desktop platforms.
>An application that actually exists for my platform is superior to a better made application that needs to be ported across.
Not if it serves as a "good enough" stop gap that prevents the better made application from being ported.
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#69I've found mindmaps to be better tools for saving notes than syntax highlighted text. I currently use the freemium version of XMind, which lacks search and many other features unless you pay. Still a better deal than just text IMO.
I've considered mind maps, but I can't overcome this problem: 10 years from now, will I be able to use that data? When/if needed, how do I export the data and what application can utilize it?
The mindmap file formats are usually zip archives that contain xml files. These can include relations between the data you might want to export.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
An application that actually exists for my platform is superior to a better made application that needs to be ported across. It has very little to do with lazy developers. It just takes more resources to release native applications for all three major desktop platforms.
> An application that actually exists for my platform is superior to a better made application that needs to be ported across. Not if it serves as a "good enough" stop gap that prevents the better made application from being ported.
Yeah, I'm sorry, if it's good enough, then it's good enough. I get that as a power user, you want the native speed, the native experience, and it's something I value too, I guess just not as much as you. Something in my hands that I can use today is more important to me.