Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
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Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#2Wow this is really cool! I've been looking at OneNote alternatives, specifically due to the lack of Linux client. I really love the searching capabilities in OneNote, I hope this one has similar stuff.
If I were to switch to this, I would loose the Android app though, any thoughts/plans of how this could be used on Mobile? Could the same client be used to render files stored on a user drive (OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox) Usually apps are forbidden to use cloud drives to store their content, but in this case maybe it could since each file is actually plain user-generated `.md`/`.jpg`/... ?
It seems all Typescript/React based, it could be doable to port it to a webview? if you're reading this, can you point to the code that handles reading/writing content from the filesystem?
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#3Wow this is really cool! I've been looking at OneNote alternatives, specifically due to the lack of Linux client. I really love the searching capabilities in OneNote, I hope this one has similar stuff. If I were to switch to this, I would loose the Android app though, any thoughts/plans of how this could be used on Mobile? Could the same client be used to render files stored on a user drive (OneDrive, Google Drive, D…
> I really love the searching capabilities in OneNote, I hope this one has similar stuff.
I'm not familiar with the search capabilities of OneNote, right now there's only fuzzy search in Notable. It's pretty bear-bones actually, but some more advanced features could be implemented in the future.
> any thoughts/plans of how this could be used on Mobile?
I personally never write notes from my phone so that's not a priority for me, but maybe if the app gets popular enough I could port the app to mobile and/or make a webapp for it.
I touch this point in the tutorial notes that get loaded into the app upon first instantiation so be sure to read that [1], basically you can put your notes in Dropbox and edit them with any text editor available.
> It seems all Typescript/React based, it could be doable to port it to a webview?
It's basically a website with access to the filesystem so it should be pretty doable.
> if you're reading this, can you point to the code that handles reading/writing content from the filesystem?
Sure, here [2] there are the functions that read all the notes and listen for changes on the filesystem (because you can also edit them with a third-party app), there are analogous functions for the attachments here [3]. Here [4] there's the function that writes updated notes to the filesystem.
At the moment there isn't much abstraction storage-wise, but I guess adding support for a cloud storage that enables synchronization between all apps should be pretty doable.
[1] https://github.com/fabiospampinato/notable/blob/master/resou...
[2] https://github.com/fabiospampinato/notable/blob/master/src/r...
[3] https://github.com/fabiospampinato/notable/blob/master/src/r...
[4] https://github.com/fabiospampinato/notable/blob/master/src/r...
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#4Wow this is really cool! I've been looking at OneNote alternatives, specifically due to the lack of Linux client. I really love the searching capabilities in OneNote, I hope this one has similar stuff. If I were to switch to this, I would loose the Android app though, any thoughts/plans of how this could be used on Mobile? Could the same client be used to render files stored on a user drive (OneDrive, Google Drive, D…
> I really love the searching capabilities in OneNote, I hope this one has similar stuff. I'm not familiar with the search capabilities of OneNote, right now there's only fuzzy search in Notable. It's pretty bear-bones actually, but some more advanced features could be implemented in the future. > any thoughts/plans of how this could be used on Mobile? I personally never write notes from my phone so that's not a prio…
thanks!
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#5This is great, I'm very tempted! When I was looking at note apps (and as I continue to re-evaluate my decision), the big win that keeps me on Standard Notes is the longevity and encryption, but the editor interface isn't anything special and sometimes I really miss OneNote/Evernote. Have you heard of Standard Notes, and would you ever consider making Notable support being a client for Standard Notes[1]?
[1] https://docs.standardnotes.org/standard-file/client-developm...
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#6This is great, I'm very tempted! When I was looking at note apps (and as I continue to re-evaluate my decision), the big win that keeps me on Standard Notes is the longevity and encryption, but the editor interface isn't anything special and sometimes I really miss OneNote/Evernote. Have you heard of Standard Notes, and would you ever consider making Notable support being a client for Standard Notes[1]? [1] https://d…
What do you mean by "longevity"? Notes in Notable are plain markdown files, that's about as portable and long-lasting as it gets.
There's no encryption by default, but you could put your notes into an encrypted image, read more about this here [1]
I had never heard of Standard Notes, fortunately now I can say I have my note-taking needs covered so I've no interested whatsoever of making Notable a front-end for a third-party service. Perhaps we could add support for importing notes from Standard Notes though, if somebody wants to work on that.
[1] https://github.com/fabiospampinato/notable/blob/master/resou...
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#7This is great, I'm very tempted! When I was looking at note apps (and as I continue to re-evaluate my decision), the big win that keeps me on Standard Notes is the longevity and encryption, but the editor interface isn't anything special and sometimes I really miss OneNote/Evernote. Have you heard of Standard Notes, and would you ever consider making Notable support being a client for Standard Notes[1]? [1] https://d…
What do you mean by "longevity"? Notes in Notable are plain markdown files, that's about as portable and long-lasting as it gets. There's no encryption by default, but you could put your notes into an encrypted image, read more about this here [1] I had never heard of Standard Notes, fortunately now I can say I have my note-taking needs covered so I've no interested whatsoever of making Notable a front-end for a thir…
By longevity I mean a hosted service with the intention of being around for a really long time. Of course plain text (and therefore Markdown) are the pinnacle but I'm very interested in supporting a service that aims to live for a hundred years, thus Standard Notes.
I commented mainly because Notable as a front-end for Standard Notes seems like the perfect solution for me but I understand that this is already your perfect solution. I might have to try the integration myself. Thanks again for your awesome work!
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean by "longevity"? Notes in Notable are plain markdown files, that's about as portable and long-lasting as it gets. There's no encryption by default, but you could put your notes into an encrypted image, read more about this here [1] I had never heard of Standard Notes, fortunately now I can say I have my note-taking needs covered so I've no interested whatsoever of making Notable a front-end for a thir…
By longevity I mean a hosted service with the intention of being around for a really long time. Of course plain text (and therefore Markdown) are the pinnacle but I'm very interested in supporting a service that aims to live for a hundred years, thus Standard Notes. I commented mainly because Notable as a front-end for Standard Notes seems like the perfect solution for me but I understand that this is already your pe…
No problem, thank you!
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#9This looks cool. Just curious, how is the search performance when you have hundreds or even thousands of notes?
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#10This looks cool. Just curious, how is the search performance when you have hundreds or even thousands of notes?
Search is debounced and feels pretty quick. With ~1500 notes the first filtering round can take about 15ms on my mid-2014 MBP, subsequent rounds can reach sub-millisecond speeds depending on how many notes are left from the previous rounds.
Currently there's no real index, and a note's content isn't searched, just its title. I will probably add support for searching the content as well, but I think with fuzzy search too many notes will match.
Anyway if you need something fancy you could also open your notes directory with your favorite editor and perform a regex-search there. No other GUI note-taking app that I've tried gives you this amount of freedom.