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Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by dustinblake » Tue, Mar 20, 2018, 12:44 PM UTC

mosselman wrote: post #42

I will try to explain why I don't want to pay for note taking apps. Just an insight, I am probably wrong. Why ramble on like this? Maybe there is someone who can point me to a nice app that I can use. The problem with most these apps is that I can't just point at a directory where the app should organise my files. I am not looking for something that saves my files to some strange (proprietary) format in an invisible…

You might find one of the Notational Velocity forks to be exactly what you're looking for:

http://notational.net

http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

(nvALT adds Markdown support and a few interface adjustments)

Point whichever NV you use to a directory of txt or markdown files in your Dropbox. NV is nimble and lightning quick, and it excels at super-fast search. Don't even bother with tags, just search.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by kalessin » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 6:31 AM UTC

I use MoinMoin for that (https://moinmo.in/) it's pretty awesome (and portable).

Right now I just run the whole thing out of a Mercurial repo (it's easy to use the MoinMoin codebase as a sub-repo [1]), but I'm planning to do a setup with a container so that the data can directly live in any (Dropbox) folder or repo.

[1] https://moinmo.in/HowTo/Run%20Moin%20from%20a%20Mercurial%20...

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by wyclif » Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 7:03 AM UTC

davidcollantes wrote: post #49

wyclif wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a shame Typora doesn't spend a little time editing their site copy English. I could tell right away the creator isn't a native English speaker, but he could probably get someone in the Typora community to give the copy a once-over.

What are you talking about? Everything on https://typora.io/ is in English, support ( http://support.typora.io ) is in English, and Github issues ( https://github.com/typora/typora-issues/issues ) is mostly English. I think the author speaks better English than you, or, at least, types it.

It's incorrect English in many places. Right on the landing page, for instance:

Replace them with a real live preview feature to help you concentrate the content itself

If you don't know what's missing from that sentence [hint: it's a missing preposition], you are probably not a native English speaker. There are numerous other examples. It's important that apps like this have good English copy.