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Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

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Post by fastball »

Hi HN – we first launched Supernotes[1] to HN in April 2020, and since then Tobias and I (it's just the two of us) have put in the work to make what we hope is an amazing note-taking app. Although the note-taking / personal knowledge management landscape is incredibly competitive at the moment (with lots of great apps adding great new features every day), we think that with the newly released Supernotes 2 we're keeping pace and delivering a unique and satisfying knowledge management experience.

Here's the combination of features that make us stand out:

- a powerful markdown-based notecard system that is simple/beautiful but also super flexible

- a WYSIWYM[2] editor that keeps markdown marks for explicitness while still giving you a preview of what the content looks like when rendered

- eschewing a folder system in favor of multi-parent nested hierarchies

- unique collaboration system that is optimized for granular sharing between individuals rather than "all-in" sharing amongst teams or specific groups

- notes that can be linked both with inline bidirectional links or the aforementioned hierarchies, allowing you to build (and experience with our 2D and 3D graph views) a robust graph of your knowledge

There are of course tons of other cool features that are included as well, but those are the highlights. If any of that sounds interesting to you, you can sign up here[3] – we would love to hear any feedback you might have!

[1] https://supernotes.app/?ref=hn

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM

[3] https://my.supernotes.app/entry?signup=1&ref=hn

Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing
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Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

#3

Post by yosito »

This app looks very nice, and I love markdown. But I am not prepared to pay £8+ per month for a Markdown notes app that works on all my devices, especially if it exerts control over what I can do with my own files. I can sync my Markdown directory via Dropbox, iCloud, Nextcloud, etc and edit the files with things like Obsidian, 1Writer, VSCode or any one of hundreds of Markdown editors.

Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

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Post by caslon »

I'm going to get ahead of the curve and warn everyone: Yes, Electron web application. Yes, noticeable input delay. Yes, memory consumption is how you might expect it to be.

They distribute on Linux with an AppImage, though, which at least isn't a Snap or Flatpak, so there's that, I guess.

If you want a non-proprietary Electron application, take a look at Logseq, or Athens (YC some year that I'm too lazy to look up).

If you want a non-proprietary non-Electron application, Emacs has a Roam mode, and a couple other Zettelkasten modes.

If you want all that, but you don't care about proprietary operating systems and you want it following the Apple HIG, the popularizer of the Zettelkasten method did it via Textmate.

If you don't mind those things, it's a shiny new application. You might enjoy it. The pricing model is a SaaS, and they lock down the API and limit the amount of entries you can have if you're using the free tier. Standard stuff. It's a very shiny application, and has a dark mode, apparently.

Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

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Post by danpalmer »

I'm not sure 40 cards is enough to build the habits and value necessary to justify £8 a month. A free tier with unlimited cards but no sync/local only, could help to get users into seeing value.

Also, as much as I'd like to use this, I can't use it due to work security policies. Having a local-only mode with no telemetry would be great. I'd happily pay a one-off for this (after trialling).

Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

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Post by mythz »

This looks nice if you need to use its features however for me Notable [1] is the perfectly minimal & Free Markdown Notes App that does everything I need from a Notes/TODOs App: has a quick UI to manage a static directory of Markdown files, with search, tags & pinned notes.

No vendor lock-in since it maintains its features requiring metadata in frontmatter in simple .md files that's easy to open with VS Code, backup in git, etc.

It's the only Notes App that's stuck over using Notepad.exe for writing quick notes.

[1] https://notable.app

Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

#8

Post by Cenk »

caslon wrote: post #4

I'm going to get ahead of the curve and warn everyone: Yes, Electron web application. Yes, noticeable input delay. Yes, memory consumption is how you might expect it to be. They distribute on Linux with an AppImage, though, which at least isn't a Snap or Flatpak, so there's that, I guess. If you want a non-proprietary Electron application, take a look at Logseq, or Athens (YC some year that I'm too lazy to look up).…

Just curious, do you really notice an input delay? Is there a way of measuring this? Because I tried to compare Supernotes to BBEdit and couldn’t tell the difference

Re: Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

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Post by fastball »

danpalmer wrote: post #5

I'm not sure 40 cards is enough to build the habits and value necessary to justify £8 a month. A free tier with unlimited cards but no sync/local only, could help to get users into seeing value. Also, as much as I'd like to use this, I can't use it due to work security policies. Having a local-only mode with no telemetry would be great. I'd happily pay a one-off for this (after trialling).

Yep, it's a hard line to straddle. The thinking behind our monetization is that we don't want to paywall any features, so the only difference is the card limit (well that and at the moment our mobile apps are in private early access, but we will release those on the App Stores publicly soon).

The other issue is that many (most?) other apps in the space try to hook individuals with free plans and then convince their work/school/etc that they need a shared workspace, focusing on a B2B model. But our goal is to cater to users who are not necessarily on any particular team but rather occasionally want to share with specific other people (mom, friend, lover, co-worker, etc). As such we have no B2B model and so must monetize B2C slightly more aggressively than similar apps since that's who we're building for.

That being said, feel free to use the code "HACKERNEWS2022" if you'd like to get a few more cards to test us out. :)

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