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Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by crispinb »

guessmyname wrote: post #5
mayankkaizen wrote: post #2

Seems interesting and something I need. But it is available only for Mac?

> Seems interesting and something I need. But it is available only for Mac? Yes, which is ironic because the app is packaged using Electron, which is supposed to be cross-platform. The developers should have developed this app using native libraries instead to offer a good performance.

> the app is packaged using Electron, which is supposed to be cross-platform.

No, it's a native mac app. It does make use of webviews and an embedded javascript editor (Ace IIRC) to implement the multiple cell types per note. But it's definitely a mac app (quite idiomatically so in many ways).

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by mpfundstein »

yborg wrote: post #3

I like Quiver, use it every day, but it's development has kind of stalled/stopped for a couple of years, and it has some significant limitations. It's search capability is limited, and it can't do search and replace. At all. In any form. I had never seen a text handling program that couldn't replace text, but Quiver now has this distinction. If you need to do this, you have to open up Quiver's JSON in an actual text…

Is it open source?

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by crispinb »

randomerr wrote: post #9

Is this an Electron app? If so, can it be ported to Windows and Linux?

No. It has a simple & documented file format (https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki/Quiver-Data-Format) so an equivalent could be built, but it's very much a Cocoa app so a port wouldn't be very feasible.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by crispinb »

yborg wrote: post #3

I like Quiver, use it every day, but it's development has kind of stalled/stopped for a couple of years, and it has some significant limitations. It's search capability is limited, and it can't do search and replace. At all. In any form. I had never seen a text handling program that couldn't replace text, but Quiver now has this distinction. If you need to do this, you have to open up Quiver's JSON in an actual text…

The stalling has been a shame. I like it so much (and have been so insecure about my likely long-term macOS use) that I keep having stabs at writing versions on various platforms using the same file format. But so far I keep having to shelve them for more urgent stuff.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by altharaz »

I use Quiver every day. I really like the way I can organize my notes and projects. However the main issue I have with this software is the absence of synchronisation between devices: I can’t browse on my iPhone what I wrote on my Mac.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by ivanhoe »

guessmyname wrote: post #5
mayankkaizen wrote: post #2

Seems interesting and something I need. But it is available only for Mac?

> Seems interesting and something I need. But it is available only for Mac? Yes, which is ironic because the app is packaged using Electron, which is supposed to be cross-platform. The developers should have developed this app using native libraries instead to offer a good performance.

Probably at some point the plan was to support other platforms as well, but development got stalled for whatever reason...

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by russdpale »

izacus wrote: post #10

Since Quiver is only usable on Apple platforms, I've instead started using Boostnote. It doesn't quite have the same featureset, but it's still a great way of collecting formatted notes and storing them on Dropbox/GDrive.

Yep, boostnotes is pretty good. VSCode w/ some markdown extensions is pretty much the same and is what I use.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by Kirth »

mpfundstein wrote: post #12
yborg wrote: post #3

I like Quiver, use it every day, but it's development has kind of stalled/stopped for a couple of years, and it has some significant limitations. It's search capability is limited, and it can't do search and replace. At all. In any form. I had never seen a text handling program that couldn't replace text, but Quiver now has this distinction. If you need to do this, you have to open up Quiver's JSON in an actual text…

Is it open source?

No, it's not.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by inopinatus »

yborg wrote: post #3

I like Quiver, use it every day, but it's development has kind of stalled/stopped for a couple of years, and it has some significant limitations. It's search capability is limited, and it can't do search and replace. At all. In any form. I had never seen a text handling program that couldn't replace text, but Quiver now has this distinction. If you need to do this, you have to open up Quiver's JSON in an actual text…

It’s stalled and with some unfortunate bugs in the change detection that can (and have, for me) lead to data loss. I love the cell structure and note organisation, but Quiver makes me nervous and I don’t use it anymore except as a temporary cache for ideas and snippets.
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