Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

supernotes.app

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 173 posts

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

#21

Post by samhw »

Thank you so much for building this. I've been looking for something that's like Notion but without its horrendous performance issues, and ideally with some form of linking between notes (but without Roam's feeling that I might eventually die in a mass murder-suicide to ascend on a comet to the higher realms of note-taking).

This is exactly what I was looking for. Please please please carry on developing this. There's a huge market for whoever gets this right - and, for as long as Notion continues on its current architectural path, no one holds the crown.

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

#23

Post by renw0rp »

WaltonGoggins wrote: post #16
yosito wrote: post #3

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.

It's £6 per month if you pay yearly. Also if you are a student you can get a 50% discount. Honestly it costs a negligible amount, that's less than a single day's worth of travel on the tube.

I just wanted to say that you could try a bit harder to justify the price rather than just saying it's "negligible". I think that's very subjective and I personally don't think it's a reasonable price to pay for just storing markdown files in the cloud.

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

#24

Post by kall »

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).…

If you don't care about proprietary OS and want something that follows the Apple HIG, as well as working across Apple platforms, NotePlan is also worth a look. it might look like a task manager at first, but it actually has very solid note taking / backlinking / Zettelkasten abilities. it also has a really approachable/hackable JavaScript plugin api (that works on iOS!) which is not obvious on first look.

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

#25

Post by rasengan »

Looks great OP!

I made a simple markdown editor as well [1] that lets you edit both with markdown or WYSIWYG and let’s you save files. It keeps your file in local storage as well and is completely open source.

[1] https://markdown.doctor

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

#26

Post by mythz »

SomeHacker44 wrote: post #20
mythz wrote: post #7

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…

I could not find pricing for Noteable on its page. At least, not on mobile. Is it free? If so, what kind of free?

Yep it's completely free, i.e. has no ads or any "premium" features you'd need to pay to unlock. Just a simple free minimal Markdown App.

From the Source code it suggests the author was exploring sustainability options, however that was last updated in 2019 so it's not clear if that's still the plan.

https://github.com/notable/notable/blob/master/SOURCE_CODE.m...

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

#28

Post by croes »

WaltonGoggins wrote: post #16
yosito wrote: post #3

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.

It's £6 per month if you pay yearly. Also if you are a student you can get a 50% discount. Honestly it costs a negligible amount, that's less than a single day's worth of travel on the tube.

Many neglible amounts are a large amount.

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

#29

Post by boplicity »

This looks great, but I'm getting very sick of software with recurring monthly fees. I get that it's more profitable for companies, and maybe I'm being a curmudgeon, but what happened to software you could actually buy once and then use forever?
Post reply on HN