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Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by alecrosa »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #68
alecrosa wrote: post #62

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Oh you can download your notes easily under profile. It will send you a .zip file with all your markdown files! Google Analytics I won’t add. In fact I don’t even use it for the site. I don’t want to track people. But views counts will come soon.

Well, view counts would work. Cool to hear that I can get the markdown. Is there any way to insert arbitrary html? Then I can put whatever I need. Maybe as a premium feature under my domain?

Will think about that, what kind of things would you put? I don’t want to become a CMS or geo cities :)

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by alecrosa »

pacifika wrote: post #67

I think you should work on eliminating the perception of a publish step. Everyone else is working how to best publish things and you stumbled on the solution: there is no publish. The copy url option screen after publishing reminded me there is a publish. I think transparently use a Share option to share the url and have a share option under the notebook title. Great concept. The sample note is private, I did not rea…

That’s great feedback!

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by alecrosa »

senux wrote: post #70

Really well done, especially for such a shorty turn around. I'm not sure I buy your reasoning though. I could be wrong, but I believe Notion does have native apps now. Also, despite not being dedicated to note-taking, it doesn't keep you from publishing simple, complexity-free, notes to the web.

It’s a wrapper around a web view. Speed is important: https://twitter.com/collected_notes/status/12679273126342287...

Another reason is a lot of features like continuity, slide over, share extension, etc etc. Are not available on web apps.

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by alecrosa »

tkgally wrote: post #61
alecrosa wrote: post #49

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Thank you so much! I planned to ship a macOS app together with the iOS apps but can’t do everything in three weeks and two kids :) It’s definitely something I want to myself. For now the web version works fine for the occasional long form posting. Let me know how it goes!

I wish you had created this a couple of years ago! I wasted a lot of time then trying different note-taking apps for a personal writing project. I ended up doing it all in a text editor, as every app I tried failed in one way or another. Collected Notes would have been perfect.

Oh wow thank you so much!

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by kovek »

jasonpbecker wrote: post #17
alecrosa wrote: post #2

Less than a month ago I decided to build an app for myself to solve a very specific problem: “I want to be able to take notes on my phone, share some of them online, and publish a few on my personal blog — oh, an I also want an API!” I built this is because no tool out there satisfied my needs: - Notion had no native app so it's very slow to use on mobile. Plus is too general. - Medium is a disaster for readers, they…

Honestly, sounds like micro.blog and how I use it. Most importantly, micro.blog uses Micropub, an existing W3C standard API for blogging which is why things like Drafts, iAWriter, MarsEdit etc can all support it. Don’t get me wrong, this is a very cool project and it looks like you’ve done a great job. I would recommend looking into Micropub support though rather than role your own API. The IndieWeb group has worked…

It would be great if there was a good way to find existing projects that achieve what we seek. Usually, the biggest names are visible, and it's hard to find alternatives that achieve specific ideas.

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by sillysaurusx »

alecrosa wrote: post #71
sillysaurusx wrote: post #68

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Well, view counts would work. Cool to hear that I can get the markdown. Is there any way to insert arbitrary html? Then I can put whatever I need. Maybe as a premium feature under my domain?

Will think about that, what kind of things would you put? I don’t want to become a CMS or geo cities :)

It's mainly to work around bugs in the system. For example:

site: https://www.shawwn.com/thanks

markdown: https://www.shawwn.com/thanks.page

If you "view source" on the markdown page, you'll see:

  Twitter: @theshawwn
The reason is that [@theshawwn](https://twitter.com/theshawwn) didn't convert into HTML for some reason. I assume the @ character threw it off, and I didn't want to drop what I was doing to figure out why. But there are a million small things like that.

For https://collectednotes.com/shawwn/sample-note, I would put GA into my notes.

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by novok »

I was thinking of making something similar, along with E2E encryption. Could you add it?

Basic principle is you encrypt the DB or the individual notes with an AES synchronous key with a password that you put through a KDF and then apply your sync method to the individual notes.

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by xrd »

alecrosa wrote: post #21
dutzi_ wrote: post #19

Nice app! Delivering this in three weeks is very impressive. Mind sharing how you made the walkthrough video? I wanted to do something similar and yours really catches the eye.

I used Rotato which is fantastic!

I couldn't find this, link?

Re: Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

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Post by alecrosa »

techsupporter wrote: post #69
alecrosa wrote: post #46

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Thank you! What specifically? It’s not intended for very sensitive data. Much prefer the note/blog use case.

> It’s not intended for very sensitive data. I hope you don't take this as a criticism, just feedback, because your product looks quite nice and if I weren't such a worry-wart, I'd probably subscribe. My issue with all notetaking applications is that all of my notes are "very sensitive data" to me. I treat my notes repository like a combination diary, scratchpad (where I plop things like temporary passwords and API k…

I think a version where it’s stored on-device would be nice. I think your concern is correct and I agree :), it currently serves a different use case which is private non-sensitive notes and public ones. Honestly even if it was the most secure app/web in the world, having a one tap to publish to my website is terrifying :)
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