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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
#122oh lord I've become "that guy". My first instinct was to say something along the lines of "well emacs and deft will do blah blah blah blah blah".
This looks really slick, and actually fills a need I identified about a couple of years ago. Namely a OneNote style app but with Markdown.
Nice job, I hope you get a lot of paying users!
Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
#123Kill dash ten,man, fucking ditch fuxking windows
Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
#124This has been on my to do list for three years. :)
Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
#125Running 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.
We're proud of you too.
Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
#126Is there a way to not have the cloud features and use dropbox/icloud for syncing instead?
I use writer plus[1] which is a free Android app and writes to .md files that I sync to my computer via syncthing. Then you can use any markdown application on the desktop (there are several open source ones on Linux).
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.easy4u.writ...
Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
#127This definitely looks great. But I feel like 5 USD a month is a bit much for _"just a note taking app"_. Like I pay 5 USD a month for Spotify and the value it gives is substantially higher than a note-taking app, and I do not mean to offend you with that. Maybe I'm saying this because I'm still studying, maybe it will different coming September when I'm working and got an income. I don't know.
The notes are markdown and in the FAQs he mentions the location of the local data cache. I imagine you can simply copy all your notes from the cache, clean up any incompatible metadata, and import them to your next note app.
Don't let paying for software stop you if you can afford it. This looks like quality software and we should support it, if able. If you're looking for free note software that's tied to a company, Firefox has a note taking app that syncs between phones/web browser (it's a bit buggy and logs out at times), and Google has Keep that also has apps and available on the web.
Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
#128It 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.
Sorry to hijack the thread, but I am so excited by this. I have always kept my developer log in vim, and I basically run my life from it, but I've always wanted inline preview, a system wide hotkey, and cross platform file sync that doesn't require giving my unencrypted data to a cloud provider. I have found a lot of markdown apps with preview and sync, but none of them support vim bindings, which is a deal breaker. I looked for so long that I decided I would have to build it myself, and then I see this! You have a new customer. :)
Edit: before anyone chimes in, yes I know you can use quake-style terminals, and rsync, and any number of vim plugins, but I need it to work seamlessly on all three desktop platforms.
Edit 2: and it has mobile support too! This literally checks every box I had in my feature list.
Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
#129Nobody's mentioned notable yet:
https://github.com/notable/notable
Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
#130A good looking Markdown app with syncing and clients for macOS, Linux, iPhone and iPad? I have been looking for this for years.