I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years • Hacker News Board

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by pedrocr » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 9:03 AM UTC

I really like gollum for this:

It's just markdown files in a git repository when you're in your full environment. But you get a read-write web wiki interface to use from anywhere.

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by mrunkel » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 9:30 AM UTC

Looks very nice, I just signed up.

Ignore the people muttering about the subscription. If your tool scratches an itch, the price and how you pay is irrelevant.

One thing, the email sent to verify my account got marked as spam by google. Not sure why, SPF and DKIM both marked as PASS. Maybe they just hate Amazon SES.

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by paddypad » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 9:32 AM UTC

Imho, notetaking Apps are solving problems that shouldn‘t be solved by them. Encryption / sync should be done by the system via git, Nextcloud, Dropbox, ... Most of the rest is provided by a decent text editor.

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by weystrom » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 9:33 AM UTC

vladharbuz wrote: post #24

weystrom wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, but Bear has this huge following around it already and is OSX native, although it is missing e2e encryption support so Inkdrop has this going for it. As for me I'm just using sublime text with a bunch of plugins and Markor on my phone. Resilio to sync between the devices.

I also use Bear and really like it, but I don't think the fact that something already has a huge following around it should be an argument. By that rationale we'd never switch to anything new.

My point is that it's a big competition for him.

Bear has a development team and it's $1.49 monthly, even cheaper if you buy annually (I know that that it leverages iCloud, but even then - you can spend 1$ and get 50 gigs of storage to use for anything you want).

Not to even mention that there are so many alternatives. Markdown editor is the new todo app. Everybody is doing one, just look at this thread.

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by maddening » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 9:35 AM UTC

laurent123456 wrote: post #23

The smart scroll on the editor is pretty nice. I don't know of any other Markdown app with dual view that does this.

Joplin also does this.

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by tadelle » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 9:38 AM UTC

Boostnote FTW

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by melicerte » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 9:40 AM UTC

laurent123456 wrote: post #26

Legogris wrote: post #14

I would love, love, love if I could self-host this and would happily pay a fee if it meant I got the source for the backend and could do that. Product looks great, but I will hold off until I find such an option. I have been looking for years for a viable self-hosted Evernote/OneNote replacement I can sync between devices. Takuya; You can differentiate from your competitors on business model!

If I may make a suggestion: I develop Joplin [0] a similar note-taking app, and it can sync with Nextcloud or WebDAV (some have made it works with the Nginx WebDAV module for instance), allowing you to control all your data. It may or may not have all the features of Takuya's app though. [0] https://joplinapp.org

Just to say I'm using Joplin on a daily basis. Thank you for building that piece of software and keep up the excellent work!

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by r3bl » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 9:56 AM UTC

I've been a happy user of this product for about half of its lifetime (in the middle of my 2nd yearly subscription).

If I were to build one, it would be quite similar: intuitive design, some GTD support, Markdown support. It has all the features that I need, and the developer is easy to reach when there's a problem (I've been mentioned in a few changelogs). I appreciate the openness of the developer about the features he's gonna build next. I'd prefer it to be open source, but I understand that financing an open source project wouldn't be as easy from the business perspective. $50/year (IIRC) is really, really worth it for me.

EDIT: Here's a link to a note that I've made when I was looking for a new note-taking solution: https://community.inkdrop.app/note/f607a6970af9e4b40795ec5be...

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by nasredin » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 10:04 AM UTC

The recent trend of terrible introductions is very annoying.

The first sentence on any new app should be...

App is a (what it can do) for (Windows/Mac/Linux) written in/with (languages/libraries/frameworks)

And FFS if it's an Electron app, SAY SO!!!!! Some people do avoid those on principal.

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by WA » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 10:06 AM UTC

Nice to see a product using CouchDB. From a quick glance, the revision utility seems to use CouchDB's revisions. Just a note to the dev: The _rev is not intended as a revision tool in CouchDB. Data will eventually be erased. See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28354346/couchdb-view-th...