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

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

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Post by cabalamat »

stockkid wrote: post #28

Running a project for three years alone on the side takes a lot of discipline. So often we become 'passionate' about some projects and quickly abandon them once the initial excitement wears off. Congratulations to the author! Eerily, I have also been building a Markdown note-taking app alone for 2 years [0]. It is also e2e encrypted, but compared to Inkdrop, needs more work on the UI. But it works perfectly as a CLI.…

> I have also been building a Markdown note-taking app alone for 2 years

So have I: https://github.com/cabalamat/catwiki

> quickly abandon them once the initial excitement wears off

I use CatWiki for all my notes so keep tweaking it.

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

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Post by 0xDEEPFAC »

00deadbeef wrote: post #58

It looks nice but it being Electron and subscription-based means I won't buy it. I'm pretty happy with Quiver.

amen, this app just serves as another example of nobody wanting to make true native desktop stuff anymore.

Thing is its easier than ever with QML and C++... : (

https://medium.com/commitlog/electron-is-cancer-b066108e6c32

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

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Post by 0xDEEPFAC »

jaden wrote: post #63
00deadbeef wrote: post #58

It looks nice but it being Electron and subscription-based means I won't buy it. I'm pretty happy with Quiver.

https://happenapps.com in case anyone else, like me, wanted to check it out. It's Mac only.

Mac only w/ electron? What is the point of using a slow fake-webrowser if not for compatibility?

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

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Post by lloeki »

prepend wrote: post #4

I like these apps because I’ve been trying note taking for 30 years and have had many false starts of solo projects over the years. So when someone releases it makes me a little happy. I like markdown because the interoperability is high. I’d like a command line way to just create a new note in one line that gets stuck somewhere that can be added on or moved around later (eg, “note Inkdrop should be investigated and…

> I’d like a command line way to just create a new note in one line that gets stuck somewhere

5 min hackjob that saves my day every day:

    # `note foobar` opens vim on a timestamped foobar file within a folder
    # `note` just opens the same folder in netrw
    # also, using tpope/vim-vinegar and liberal use of `-` to go back and forth
    function note() (
      local title="$1"
      local timestamp="$(date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z)"
      local dir="${HOME}/Dropbox/Notes"

      mkdir -p "${dir}"
      cd "${dir}"
      if [[ -n $1 ]]; then
        exec vim "$timestamp-$title.md"
      else
        exec vim .
      fi
    )

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

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Post by jaden »

snickerman wrote: post #27

I've been using Typora which is a similar or even a better tool and it's free for now. I hope typora doesn't go the subscription/saas route. Everything is a subscription these days and you probably would be better off going with a different revenue model since the competition is heavy in the note taking market.

Thanks for sharing, I hadn't heard of https://typora.io before. The extremely minimalist web site on mobile made it seem like the page hadn't loaded.

Subscriptions are the best way to support products with a smaller user base. Plus it has ongoing cloud storage.

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

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Post by ymolodtsov »

wj wrote: post #55
hashhar wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Joplin kicks ass. The only area it might need improvement is regarding showing the tags associated with a note without having to click a button. The mobile app, web-clipper and desktop apps are all wonderfully done.

Is this the only other note taking app besides Evernote that has a web clipper? That has been the killer feature for me. Will have to check it out.

OneNote, Bear and Notion all have web clippers.

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

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Post by vmurthy »

paddypad wrote: post #33

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.

Not really. There must be a small(big?) subset of people who don't want to setup git,nextcloud,dropbox etc. to get encryption/sync working. As a hacker it might offend your sensibilities of "one thing well" but not everyone is a hacker :-)
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