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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 craftzdog »

mrunkel wrote: post #32

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.

The author here. Thanks! Yeah this app is basically for professional use. I'm providing it to only those who got more productivity with it and who would think that is worth more than the price. I don't know why emails got marked as spam.

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

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Post by mdhughes »

Why, so have I, and so has every other programmer on Earth.

https://mdhughes.tech/thoughtpy/

This has been mostly used as my engineering notebook, in lieu of stacks of Moleskines.

Simple command-line tool for editing and searching, a pipeline to any Markdown app for display, and DropBox for syncing, that's all I needed.

I could also use it on mobile with Pythonista, with some changes to get a DropBox path and open it in Editorial or Drafts, but so far just having the files is good enough.

My point is, every programmer should be capable of making certain basic tools of their own, such as note-taking, blogging, a calculator, and scripting languages.

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

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Post by robbiemitchell »

TheGrumpyBrit wrote: post #50

It looks good, and I like your pricing model more than the Standard Notes one (I don't want to drop $149 at once on a web app, but the 75% discount for doing so makes the monthly price seem way too expensive). Two things that stop me pulling the trigger: 1. I need a web app. I want to be able to call up my notes from a computer, anywhere, without installing anything. 2. A 60 day trial seems like the wrong way to test…

> I want to be able to call up my notes from a computer, anywhere, without installing anything.

Why? How often do you retrieve your notes from some random computer that doesn't have your other preferred (or required) software installed?

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

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Post by craftzdog »

hendersoon wrote: post #77
TheGrumpyBrit wrote: post #50

It looks good, and I like your pricing model more than the Standard Notes one (I don't want to drop $149 at once on a web app, but the 75% discount for doing so makes the monthly price seem way too expensive). Two things that stop me pulling the trigger: 1. I need a web app. I want to be able to call up my notes from a computer, anywhere, without installing anything. 2. A 60 day trial seems like the wrong way to test…

I agree with your suggestion, but 5 megabytes is a _LOT_ of text. I would suggest capping the trial version at something like 20 notes, which is more than enough to test it out but not enough to really use the service longterm.

Actually there is a demo version which allows you to make 5 notes without time limit and sync feature.

https://my.inkdrop.app/demo

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

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Post by craftzdog »

eevilspock wrote: post #79

Why all that effort to have synced Side-by-side View instead of implementing an editable WYSIWYG view, like Typora? (Typora is nice, and popular, but it has some serious performance and usability issues. Some competition would be good.)

The author here. That's a personal preference. I don't like WYSIWYG but do prefer plain Markdown.

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

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Post by zimpenfish »

mdhughes wrote: post #82

Why, so have I, and so has every other programmer on Earth. https://mdhughes.tech/thoughtpy/ This has been mostly used as my engineering notebook, in lieu of stacks of Moleskines. Simple command-line tool for editing and searching, a pipeline to any Markdown app for display, and DropBox for syncing, that's all I needed. I could also use it on mobile with Pythonista, with some changes to get a DropBox path and open it…

> every programmer should be capable of making certain basic tools of their own, such as note-taking, blogging, a calculator, and scripting languages.

I'd counter that by adding "...and wise enough to know better than to actually do it."

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

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Post by waz0wski »

ymolodtsov wrote: post #68
wj wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Quiver recently added one as well, works decently and actually fetches images to store locally unlike Evernote web clipper

Some javascript-heavy segmented pages don't clip correctly, but firing up the browsers reader-mode usually clears all the js crap and allows page content to be cleanly clipped

http://happenapps.com/#quiver

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

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Post by zrobotics »

craftzdog wrote: post #73
TheGrumpyBrit wrote: post #50

It looks good, and I like your pricing model more than the Standard Notes one (I don't want to drop $149 at once on a web app, but the 75% discount for doing so makes the monthly price seem way too expensive). Two things that stop me pulling the trigger: 1. I need a web app. I want to be able to call up my notes from a computer, anywhere, without installing anything. 2. A 60 day trial seems like the wrong way to test…

The author here. > A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit That's interesting and I basically agree with your opinion. You will be more comfortable to try it. But I suspect that many free riders will come eat the server resources. This is not a startup. I would rather like to be small.

Another point is that 10mb is a lot of text, especially for users like me who use these types of note-taking apps as todo lists. For persistent notes I already have directory I store locally w/ cloud backup, but a webapp would be nice for my running todo list.

That will hopefully never top 10mb,so a free user like me would really eat into hosting costs. Perhaps a solution to people like the OP who are concerned about data being held hostage is to make it clear that after the trial period their data can be exported, that way they don't have to feel there is risk of it being held hostage.

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

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Post by craftzdog »

dgellow wrote: post #46

Is there a way to not have the cloud features and use dropbox/icloud for syncing instead?

Nope, because I don't like file-based sync. It's slow, unstable and hard to implement. People will say "how about Google Drive/OneDrive/Box support?" Hell awaits you.

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

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Post by mremco »

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