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Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

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Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

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Post by teamspirit »

FalconSensei wrote: post #28
fori1to10 wrote: post #19

Why would I use this, instead of Obsidian (say)?

Obsidian Sync costs money to sync your files between devices. Obsidian Publish also costs money on top of that to publish your notes.

I’ve been using icloud to store my vault and have found it to be great to sync with laptop, phone, and tablet (obviously they’re Apple devices as iCloud isn’t supported on anything else).

It’s been really solid. When I used an android phone I had a lot more difficulty. While syncthing is reliable on android and macbook, iphone and ipad don’t work nearly as well.

Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

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Post by adfm »

teamspirit wrote: post #41
FalconSensei wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obsidian Sync costs money to sync your files between devices. Obsidian Publish also costs money on top of that to publish your notes.

I’ve been using icloud to store my vault and have found it to be great to sync with laptop, phone, and tablet (obviously they’re Apple devices as iCloud isn’t supported on anything else). It’s been really solid. When I used an android phone I had a lot more difficulty. While syncthing is reliable on android and macbook, iphone and ipad don’t work nearly as well.

There's iCloud for Windows. https://support.apple.com/en-us/103232

Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

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Post by cole-k »

littlestymaar wrote: post #43
thetomcraig wrote: post #40

Nit Pick feedback: it should read: “the right _number_ of features”, not “_amount_ of features”. Other than that, love the look of the site :)

Non native speaker here, can you detail why the later is incorrect?

I'm guessing that "amount" is not quantized ("number" is). Let me be absolutely clear that most native speakers will not notice the distinction (even pedants like me missed this one).

You'll also see people being pedantic about "less" versus "fewer," e.g. complaining about the "12 items or less" line being improper usage since items are quantized and therefore it should be "12 items or fewer."

Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

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Post by Alex63 »

littlestymaar wrote: post #43
thetomcraig wrote: post #40

Nit Pick feedback: it should read: “the right _number_ of features”, not “_amount_ of features”. Other than that, love the look of the site :)

Non native speaker here, can you detail why the later is incorrect?

It's probably mostly idiomatic. For native English-speakers it is more natural to use "number" when talking about things that are counted units that would be represented by integers (like marbles, or children, or features). "Amount" would be more appropriate when talking about something that you measure and represent with a floating point number (like butter, or gasoline/petrol, or risk). But an English-speaker will understand what you mean if you say "amount of features" instead of "number of features."

And since we're being picky, it should be "the latter is correct", not "the later is correct."

Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

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Post by beretguy »

siegers wrote: post #35
johnnyfived wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This answer doesn't make sense to me. If anything oauth far better proves you won't be sharing information with other services (you're not collecting logins and accounts). It's more limiting to ask users to sign up to the app.

Meaning that we'd be limiting users that don't use the provider(s) that we'd support. At that time, we felt that username/password was the lowest friction at the time. We're happy to re-eval if needed though!

Please leave username-password authentication. I never use oauth and absolutely hate it.

Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

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Post by CharlesW »

littlestymaar wrote: post #43
thetomcraig wrote: post #40

Nit Pick feedback: it should read: “the right _number_ of features”, not “_amount_ of features”. Other than that, love the look of the site :)

Non native speaker here, can you detail why the later is incorrect?

"Number" is correct when referring to countable items (like "features"), while "amount" is correct for non-countable things (like "water" or "time").

Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

#48

Post by tbeseda »

siegers wrote: post #20

co-founder here: Just a little context on the "why" from the site - > We created lowercase as a side project to make it easier for folks to quickly share content without the pressure of having the perfect blog post. Sometimes you just want to share thoughts without worrying about styling and hosting. Ideas aren't always structured. And sometimes simple and easy is what you need. > A note-taking app that is simple, fu…

FYI, I can't delete my account:

Request URL: https://www.lowercase.app/api/accounts/tbeseda/

Request Method: DELETE

Status Code: 404 Not Found

Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

#49

Post by detritus »

yellow_postit wrote: post #5
mattstrayer wrote: post #2

co-founder here: feel free to ask any questions!

Can I export or host the data myself? For work sensitive notes I can’t/won’t use an untrusted sync mechanism.

Yeah, I couldn't imagine hosting my Most Important Notes on a freebie service whose provenance I don't entirely know.

Notes are self host for me.

Re: Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

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Post by siegers »

tbeseda wrote: post #48
siegers wrote: post #20

co-founder here: Just a little context on the "why" from the site - > We created lowercase as a side project to make it easier for folks to quickly share content without the pressure of having the perfect blog post. Sometimes you just want to share thoughts without worrying about styling and hosting. Ideas aren't always structured. And sometimes simple and easy is what you need. > A note-taking app that is simple, fu…

FYI, I can't delete my account: Request URL: https://www.lowercase.app/api/accounts/tbeseda/ Request Method: DELETE Status Code: 404 Not Found

(co-founder) Sry about that - if you want to email lowercasehq@gmail.com I can remove and confirm for you.
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