Absolutely love the idea of combining regular note taking with the power of an infinite canvas. Congrats on the launch!
Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
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#62My experience in case it helps: Open it up, looks like mobile only. I do my planning an organizing on my big desktop monitor with good keyboard so this is a no go Wants my email a lot. Maybe this guy is harvesting Hacker News emails Subscription model. I hate those because I always forget to cancel. Besides I have free and open source note takers that are pretty good. Not everything I want but good. Someone asked abo…
> I use Obsidian. They got me to become addicted to their software by having no fanfare or ceremony and allowing me to see what's great about it right away by trying it. It opens to a big download button. It doesn't ask for email. It's free forever for personal use.
I know other people are giving you shit for this, but I'm exactly the same way. Combined with Syncthing, other software (particularly paid stuff like this) doesn't look even remotely capable in comparison. People hydroplane over the essentials and then act surprised when their unicorn app isn't the runaway success it should have been.
Dear Notes Apps:
Everyone else has already done you, and better. If you want to compete (like, actually compete), you have to match them on features and be better somehow. Things like being "cloud-based" are not selling points; they're detriments when compared to your competitors.
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#64This reminds me of an iOS app I built years ago (primarily for myself) called Mindscope https://apps.apple.com/de/app/mindscope-thought-organizer/id... - a visual, hierarchical text canvas. Scapple meets Workflowy if you will. I always loved this freer and more visual form of note-taking so it’s really cool to see a full-fledged, more complete solution with media/images and the whole nine yards. Very cool!
Hey! I also use mindscope even on ios 14. Any chance of updating ios 15.
It’s a great app!
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#65I've said this many times but I dislike that I have to make an account before I even know what the product is or if I will like it enough to justify an account. I hunted around for a sec and I could not find anything that would let me see a real demo or example of the product that didn't require making an account. Doing something like Airtable[0] is much more effective (not affiliated just a product I use), where I c…
I searched around for about 10 seconds, didn't find a way to demo or see a video, turned back.
Re: Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
#66Absolutely love the idea of combining regular note taking with the power of an infinite canvas. Congrats on the launch!
Thanks Ian!
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#67The hover effect on the buttons on the home page are so nice. I haven't seen it before and absolutely love it.
Feel free to steal them! I can send you the React components if helpful :)
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#68I will be following this very closely. I have been asking for this for about 10 years now. Signed up, will be using it for a few weeks to evaluate.
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#69I will be following this very closely. I have been asking for this for about 10 years now. Signed up, will be using it for a few weeks to evaluate.
Awesome! Let us know what you think.
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#70I like the idea here, but it does not seem to support the Apple Pencil feature for handwriting to text when I try to write in text fields, which is a bit of a deal breaker for me. I hope you can fix that because I do like most everything else.