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Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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Post by ravenstine »

Serious question: does anyone regularly use a Markdown notes app/site/extension?

I've seen this kind of thing appear a few times a year and, while they are cool and I like Markdown, I find I stop using them rather quickly in favor of things like the macOS Notes app or Slack because of things like convenience, ease of sharing, better search, more ease of mind that my notes won't one day disappear because of a side effect of clearing history or because the developer didn't understand browser storage API quirks. For example, I used Dillinger.io until the interface was updated and my notes were gone. I seem to remember another one that interacted with gist.github.com until one day it didn't. Hurray.

I think a company around a Markdown based app or extension would be good because other solutions don't embrace Markdown, and the ones that do might be a flash in the pan.

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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Post by PretzelFisch »

vanderZwan wrote: post #3

> The code makes use of localStorage() to save the raw text and the time and date of when the edit has been made. Given that localStorage only has 5MiB available to it, you could try using the localForage library to have a localStorage-like API around IndexedDB, so that people can store even larger notes (you could even support storing pasted images as PNG blobs). Even better: is has automatic localForage fallback. A…

I am pretty sure you can ask the user to use more and 5mb is just the mobile default for a site. https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/offline/quota-resear...

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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Post by bdickason »

ravenstine wrote: post #21

Serious question: does anyone regularly use a Markdown notes app/site/extension? I've seen this kind of thing appear a few times a year and, while they are cool and I like Markdown, I find I stop using them rather quickly in favor of things like the macOS Notes app or Slack because of things like convenience, ease of sharing, better search, more ease of mind that my notes won't one day disappear because of a side eff…

I use IA Writer for my mac which is a great notes app that supports dropbox syncing, focus mode, etc and also offers markdown support.

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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Post by lytedev »

ravenstine wrote: post #21

Serious question: does anyone regularly use a Markdown notes app/site/extension? I've seen this kind of thing appear a few times a year and, while they are cool and I like Markdown, I find I stop using them rather quickly in favor of things like the macOS Notes app or Slack because of things like convenience, ease of sharing, better search, more ease of mind that my notes won't one day disappear because of a side eff…

I use markdown in vim for absolutely all note taking and prose. But no, I don't use any of these little applets, browser or otherwise. I imagine lots of people do, though, if they don't have a text editor religion they subscribe to!

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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Post by cabalamat »

ravenstine wrote: post #21

Serious question: does anyone regularly use a Markdown notes app/site/extension? I've seen this kind of thing appear a few times a year and, while they are cool and I like Markdown, I find I stop using them rather quickly in favor of things like the macOS Notes app or Slack because of things like convenience, ease of sharing, better search, more ease of mind that my notes won't one day disappear because of a side eff…

> does anyone regularly use a Markdown notes app/site/extension?

Yes, I've been using my CatWiki software for programming and general notes now for several years. https://github.com/cabalamat/catwiki

CatWiki adds extensions to Markdown including code highlighting and MediaWiki-style links: https://github.com/cabalamat/catwiki/blob/master/data/catwik...

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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Post by imaoreo »

bendavis381 wrote: post #24

Why would you use markdown to take notes? Markdown is designed to be displayed as rich-text (headings, lists, etc) after authoring. If you only ever view it in plaintext as an editor, what's the point?

Haven't used the app but the gif in the readme shows you can switch between view and edit mode.
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