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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 mcguire »

braythwayt wrote: post #57
coolgoose wrote: post #31

I am really confused on why this is useful and not any other proper-ish note taking application.

Think about "Why text files won for programming source code." Rich formats like Smalltalk's images are vastly superior as long as you stay within the ecosystem. But plain text is "worse is better" at scale. You get more tools, more interoperability, more of everything. Markdown is the plain text file winner for uncomplicated words. It's somewhat portable between a myriad of tools. When you drop into a "Better" tool l…

"Why a tab instead of a separate app that works with Markdown"

I'll bet the answer is similar: Everyone already has a browser open and quite a lot of notes are copy-n-pasted from other tabs. Availability, interoperability, etc.

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

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Post by ycombinete »

locofocos wrote: post #65
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 recently started taking notes in markdown. I previously had notes scattered across txt files, Word docs, ColorNote, and emails to myself. I take journal-type notes about personal things, and I demand that I have them available conveniently decades from now. I strongly prefer a dark theme. I was going to jump ship entirely to OneNote, but I can't get a dark theme on Desktop and mobile. Moving to markdown has tremend…

Sounds like you might be a candidate for ConnectedText [0]

[0] http://www.connectedtext.com/

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

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Post by dotancohen »

someguy101010 wrote: post #69
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?

They do it because they don't know about org mode

How am I supposed to read and edit my org mode notes from my Android device?

Yes, I do in fact use Orgzly. For a very specific subset of notes it's fine. But for a long bit of documentation, no good editor exists on anything but a desktop / laptop. That is, nobody's reimplemented enough of Emacs on Android yet.

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

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Post by kqr »

dotancohen wrote: post #75
someguy101010 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They do it because they don't know about org mode

How am I supposed to read and edit my org mode notes from my Android device? Yes, I do in fact use Orgzly. For a very specific subset of notes it's fine. But for a long bit of documentation, no good editor exists on anything but a desktop / laptop. That is, nobody's reimplemented enough of Emacs on Android yet.

I have heard rumours that one can get Emacs up and running fairly well in Termux, but I haven't explored it personally yet. Orgzly is good enough for most of my Android Org needs.

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

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Post by dragonwriter »

halite wrote: post #4

How do you interpret these licensing terms: License Copyright (c) Mihir Chaturvedi. All rights reserved. Licensed under the MIT License. If Mihir has all rights reserved, what's the purpose of adding MIT with it?

It's standard to use both “All rights reserved” along with explicit permissions to be explicit that all rights under copyright not explicitly granted are reserved. It is, in intent, a disclaimer of additional implied permissions, though IIRC the “All rights reserved” in practice has no legal effect.

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

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Post by erikbye »

bdickason wrote: post #32
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?

I take notes in Markdown in an editor that formats it automagically called IA Writer. Bullets are indented, headlines bolded and out-dented, etc.

Also:

https://caret.io/ https://typora.io/

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