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maker here. well hot dam, not sure I'm ready for this. But happy to answer any questions if it stays online. Literally I'm the only daily active user right now. back story -- I was a happy roam research user, but i found it too slow for my iphone se. Been at home more with a one year old, so gotten back in to programming during naps.

I want to access my notes both macOS and Linux. Is this possible in the future? I haven’t watched the video yet (I’m traveling right now).

Re: Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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maker here. well hot dam, not sure I'm ready for this. But happy to answer any questions if it stays online. Literally I'm the only daily active user right now. back story -- I was a happy roam research user, but i found it too slow for my iphone se. Been at home more with a one year old, so gotten back in to programming during naps.

You must have a good napper if you have time to get into a programming mindset during their naps! Congrats!

Re: Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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I'm not a big notetaker, so truthfully I probably won't try your app. But out of curiosity I watched your youtube video demo, and I have to say, I really like how the website looks. Simple, pleasant colors (for me anyways, but not sure how that works with accessibility), and easy to find things on the screen.

Nice!

Oh, and did Barack Obama really call you?

Re: Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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post #18

maker here. well hot dam, not sure I'm ready for this. But happy to answer any questions if it stays online. Literally I'm the only daily active user right now. back story -- I was a happy roam research user, but i found it too slow for my iphone se. Been at home more with a one year old, so gotten back in to programming during naps.

*damn.

A few more additional thoughts while anyone is looking:

I hope to get a fake demo dataset made soon. It doesn't seem all that useful when you login with nothing there. Similarity search is pretty meaningless until you have things in there. And it's cool to get a sense of how notes can build over time to something useful. As a personal crm, I'm not sure what would be easier.

Also need to make a more detailed video describing use cases, and explaining what the basic data models are.

The last day or so I've been working on more structured data extraction -- as I have more fun doing that than trying to fix a few regex issues on the front end.

fyi, I deployed a bug last night that broke the calendar. Fixed and deployed right now.

Thanks anyone for looking!

Re: Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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I'm not a big notetaker, so truthfully I probably won't try your app. But out of curiosity I watched your youtube video demo, and I have to say, I really like how the website looks. Simple, pleasant colors (for me anyways, but not sure how that works with accessibility), and easy to find things on the screen. Nice! Oh, and did Barack Obama really call you?

Lol. No, he vacations in my town and bought a house like 100 yards from a studio I used to rent. I'm confident he'll buy some canoes from me at some point.

I'm not a big note taker at all either. I had a crazy covid, needed to manage a big project and 90 people over a few months. And found roam research invaluable in that process. More recently I got tired of the spinner on mobile so made this. Day to day, I use it to manage myself -- jotting down a few todo items daily. And as a personal crm, ie notes from phone calls and meetings. Basically a homepage to tell myself what to do.

appreciate kind words on the design (a process of tweaking tailwind classes til I'm not grumpy about it). at some point will get to more customization as others have mentioned things being hard to read.

Re: Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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post #18

maker here. well hot dam, not sure I'm ready for this. But happy to answer any questions if it stays online. Literally I'm the only daily active user right now. back story -- I was a happy roam research user, but i found it too slow for my iphone se. Been at home more with a one year old, so gotten back in to programming during naps.

You must have a good napper if you have time to get into a programming mindset during their naps! Congrats!

yesss, she's awesome. late nights help too. :)

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post #24

That 4chan meme picture doesn't make it look very trustworthy to be honest. Especially because the site asks for my data right after that. I'm sure I'm not going to give someone who likes 4chan memes my data.

Had no idea it was a meme, but it sold me on the fact that it really means simple (many “simple” apps are not at all simple). I like it!

Re: Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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post #24

That 4chan meme picture doesn't make it look very trustworthy to be honest. Especially because the site asks for my data right after that. I'm sure I'm not going to give someone who likes 4chan memes my data.

In this case I honestly trust someone with 4chan picture more.
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