Ooh, interesting. Leveraging SMS mass pricing with shot commands. Brings back memories from the before Smartphone era. I wonder if this could take off with people so used to GUI now.
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#62You might be already be aware of this but you might want to take into account the fact that many countries do not use SMS at all, first because it's non-free/expensive and secondly because people have just grown used to not even realize it's an option. Here in South America it's ALL Whatssapp, I don't think I've ever sent an SMS in 10 years.
Noted. FWIW SMS is not a requirement to use /tap. And I would love to build more messaging integrations. email me with suggestions!
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#63I follow an unwritten rule that I will always congratulate anyone on shipping anything. Shipping anything is hard and deserves praise, so congratulations! Unfortunately I'm also realizing that I got to a point in life where I just roll my eyes when I see yet another note-taking, or to-do app, or any other spin on the same trivial problem that we solved 1000 years ago and now are just beating a dead horse, almost like…
I like seeing new ideas, and I'm one who has already settled on one note-taking technique. Discovering new ideas helps me incorporate new methods and also see some flaws to my techniques. That's all fine.
It's understandable we sometimes feel fatigued on watching these assembly-line of apps coming our way, but it's new ideas and not products that excite me.
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#64I follow an unwritten rule that I will always congratulate anyone on shipping anything. Shipping anything is hard and deserves praise, so congratulations! Unfortunately I'm also realizing that I got to a point in life where I just roll my eyes when I see yet another note-taking, or to-do app, or any other spin on the same trivial problem that we solved 1000 years ago and now are just beating a dead horse, almost like…
Note taking is solved, find me an app that solves note organizing and note retrieval and I will pay for that
I wonder sometimes if note organizing isn’t a lost cause. If we could just solve note retrieval, who cares about organizing?
I want to make a note when I find out something useful, and I want to retrieve that note when I need the information (or when I find out more, so I can amend the note). Organization seems orthogonal to that desire.
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#65There's some very cool ideas here, I like the approach it's taking with composability, it's an interesting project. And the integration into other systems seems kind of inspired in some ways, getting a summary email or doing stuff with text messages seems gimmicky in theory but I bet it actually feels great and ends up being useful in practice. Probably a lesson there about the benefits of integrating with multiple s…
I hear you. What guarantees about how it works do you have in mind?
You may be interested in just the parsing component of /tap, which is open source https://github.com/tatatap-com/sowhat
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#66You might be already be aware of this but you might want to take into account the fact that many countries do not use SMS at all, first because it's non-free/expensive and secondly because people have just grown used to not even realize it's an option. Here in South America it's ALL Whatssapp, I don't think I've ever sent an SMS in 10 years.
Noted. FWIW SMS is not a requirement to use /tap. And I would love to build more messaging integrations. email me with suggestions!
With WhatsApp you already cover probably 90% of Latin America and Europe; Telegram would be really nice to have since it's gaining traction and it's popular among tech-savvy users.
Russia and Asia probably use other apps like WeChat, honestly no idea.
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#67Were you inspired by Zim?
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#68Ooh, interesting. Leveraging SMS mass pricing with shot commands. Brings back memories from the before Smartphone era. I wonder if this could take off with people so used to GUI now.
The only issue I have yet to solve with SMS is security. They are by nature completely and totally open... and there doesn't seem to be a good fix other than sending encrypted text, which defeats the purpose of the convenience of SMS
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#69LISP in your notes? That's cool. For my note taking I use the great tiddlywiki. A lot of features seem to overlap with the tiddlywiki. What seems nicer is the syntax, which is cool. As a tiddlywiki user, what's the advantage of this note taking app over that one? ( https://tiddlywiki.com/ )
This is a hosted service so you can just access it and read/write your data from anywhere. With tiddlywiki you need to go through a lot of machinations or even run your own server to access it anywhere.
Yes, it being hosted is definitely nice. It's not a big deal for people like me that know how to host software but I can see that being a huge plus for folks who can't/don't want to manage their own server.
Re: /tap – Powerful and customizable note-taking system
#70LISP in your notes? That's cool. For my note taking I use the great tiddlywiki. A lot of features seem to overlap with the tiddlywiki. What seems nicer is the syntax, which is cool. As a tiddlywiki user, what's the advantage of this note taking app over that one? ( https://tiddlywiki.com/ )
I'm not sure, just seeing tiddlywiki for the first time now. Two of the main goals of /tap are having your notes meet you where you are: sms, email, API and introducing elements that allow you to consolidate other applications into tap: beans, formulas, events etc.
I see you are the creator of /tap? Great! I think the multi modal goal is definitely cool and could be really useful. For tiddlywiki, I have to host my own server and only access to it is via a browser. While I have access everywhere this way, it's sometimes slow on mobile phones.
FYI, I signed up but login doesn't seem to work for me. Does nothing. I had to verify my email but got a 'oops try again' message with the verify link. Maybe has something to do with not being able to login.