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Small suggestion -- it seems like you're using the wrong units (or maybe abbreviations) for your displayed average page sizes. You're using lower-case b to indicate bits, but I suspect you mean upper-case B to indicate bytes? Also, the lower-case k is the correct prefix for 1,000, but lower case m is milli, or 1/000. You want M for mega, which is 1,000,000. Also if you really want to be precise you should consider wh…
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I agree, bear is great. I miss it - I no longer have an iPhone and am Windows dependent :-(. I have made the best use of OneNote as I can - but the ease of categorisation of thoughts within the bear app will always be the best imo.
Try out Notion. They recently changed their free plan to have unlimited blocks.
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I agree, bear is great. I miss it - I no longer have an iPhone and am Windows dependent :-(. I have made the best use of OneNote as I can - but the ease of categorisation of thoughts within the bear app will always be the best imo.
Try Joplin. As a heavy user of markdown for notes, i wanted something cross-platform across OSes and devices. Joplin fits my requirements perfectly.
Is it open source? Could I self hosted it?
You can't self host it, otherwise you'd be better off writing your own basic HTML pages or using a static site generator. You can check out the source code on github though https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog
I don’t understand the desire to have no stylesheets. The default styling on the web is not a great example of design or usability.
Since HN seems to be on a blog-kick lately, I'll repost the idea that I'm still waiting for someone to build: A blogverse of some kind that allows for algorithmic discoverability & aggregation (ala Medium) without the bullshit/terrible UX. The real value proposition of Medium is that a well-made aggregator benefits readers and writers alike. Readers find more authors they like, writers find more audience. There are a…
> plus a business model not reliant on ads Is anyone anywhere close to this?
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I've been aware of these for around 20 years, I've not seen that nomenclature growing in popularity. It doesn't help that it just sounds silly to my ears.
Nail on the head. They're just weird, at least in the context of English phonetics. That's the reason I discourage their adoption. I'd much rather we just all agree that kilobyte means 2^10 bytes. Or find words that aren't weird. If I remember correctly, a big motivation for this change was the fact that disk manufacturers intentionally used base-10 definitions so they could advertise larger numbers for disk capacity…
Kilo means 10^3 though. I use a lot of SI units every day and that's what it always means for every one of them, just like Mega is always 10^6. These prefixes shouldn't have different meanings depending on the unit being used; that breaks SI. The SI prefixes were first adopted in 1795, before computing even existed as a concept, let alone computers existing as actual objects. The overloading of already very-well-established prefixes to mean something different was always a mistake, and can probably partially be blamed on the US's failure to adopt the metric system.
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This is a hilarious nit-pick. In the context of an internet blog describing average page-size, it's completely obvious that mb == MB ... not millibars... There's an insane amount of abbreviations and acronyms that have multiple meanings in different contexts. How many Wikipedia pages have [disambiguation] here ?...
It is not disambiguous, it is wrong. People will probably figure out what it is meant from the context, but it will slow them down. Are there really any reasons for using the wrong abbrevation other than lazyness or ignorance in this case?
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I mean, if they wanted to reserve the use of this common animal name across all industries, that’d be ridiculous, but it would seem pretty reasonable to worry about confusion between a cloud notes app and a cloud blog app. Certainly easier to think about it now than if this service takes off.
These are two different products. Blogging != note taking. And it doesn't seem like there's malicious intent. You can't use a generic name and expect others not to come up with the same idea.