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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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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We decided from the very beginning that we'd never collect or share any user data. Then why not use OAuth?

Wasn't necessary since we weren't intending to share information with another service and felt that the 3rd party requirement could be limiting.

Then use both regular sign-up and OAuth? People that just want to try the service don't have patience for email verification.

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

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Low-key I have been looking for something like Obsidian-but-freeish to try since a while - I think this is exactly what I searched for. Going to give it a go during the weekend definitely. On a different note, what's the long term sustainability plan? Relying on donations rarely works... I guess it's not very expensive to host text, but still, its cost is not 0. "Unlimited free forever" is either not free, doesn't la…

> something like Obsidian-but-freeish I'm confused. Obsidian itself is free. You can choose to pay for their sync service if you need it, but there are alternatives for that that don't cost extra.

I'm guessing free as in speech, not free as in beer. Obsidian is not open source [0]

[0] https://obsidian.rocks/why-isnt-obsidian-open-source/

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

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Low-key I have been looking for something like Obsidian-but-freeish to try since a while - I think this is exactly what I searched for. Going to give it a go during the weekend definitely. On a different note, what's the long term sustainability plan? Relying on donations rarely works... I guess it's not very expensive to host text, but still, its cost is not 0. "Unlimited free forever" is either not free, doesn't la…

(co-founder) Thanks for the comment and very valid points. When we initially started building we had subscription plans and more of a general revenue model. Over time we transitioned to the donation-based approach. We are open to revisiting the former if there is interest (and feedback) in the existing functionality or newer updates. I definitely understand the concern of "free forever" and open to input.

Need to look at the site more in general to see if it's for me, but just a note - https://www.lowercase.app/pricing/ still references the subscription model.

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

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I went through a bunch of note-taking apps before I settled on a git directory that's auto-synced once an hour. This bash script is all it takes. cd ~/notes if [[ ''$(git status --porcelain) ]]; then git stash save git pull --rebase git stash pop || true git add . git -c "user.name=Phil Kulak" -c "user.email=nope@kulak.us" commit -m "''$(date)" git push origin main else git pull fi

And sensible merge conflict resolution vs normal cloud saves.

Yeah, every year or so I get a merge conflict, and then the whole things stops syncing and it takes me a week to notice before I go in and resolve it. It's not perfect, but I can't be assed to fix something that happens once a year. :/

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

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Low-key I have been looking for something like Obsidian-but-freeish to try since a while - I think this is exactly what I searched for. Going to give it a go during the weekend definitely. On a different note, what's the long term sustainability plan? Relying on donations rarely works... I guess it's not very expensive to host text, but still, its cost is not 0. "Unlimited free forever" is either not free, doesn't la…

> Low-key I have been looking for something like Obsidian-but-freeish to try since a while Have you tried LogSeq? I think there are a couple other FOSS similar notes apps

There's also a Visual Studio Code extension ecosystem worth exploring that do similar functions (Dendron, Foam, etc)

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

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post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And sensible merge conflict resolution vs normal cloud saves.

Yeah, every year or so I get a merge conflict, and then the whole things stops syncing and it takes me a week to notice before I go in and resolve it. It's not perfect, but I can't be assed to fix something that happens once a year. :/

Maybe you can beep the motherboard if it happens. Would only take a few hours to notice then :)

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

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Congratulations, looks like a cool app, I'm hoping I'll eventually catch up with being feature rich like yours. I've only just started, being hacking on it for a month now but am looking to do something pretty similar. I think we've had a few ideas the same - and amrescratching the same itch. Your 4 years ahead though :-) :-) https://edit-this.page/help is my humble work in progress.

Best of luck to you all!

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

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Low-key I have been looking for something like Obsidian-but-freeish to try since a while - I think this is exactly what I searched for. Going to give it a go during the weekend definitely. On a different note, what's the long term sustainability plan? Relying on donations rarely works... I guess it's not very expensive to host text, but still, its cost is not 0. "Unlimited free forever" is either not free, doesn't la…

> something like Obsidian-but-freeish I'm confused. Obsidian itself is free. You can choose to pay for their sync service if you need it, but there are alternatives for that that don't cost extra.

Obsidian is only free for personal use.

If you take notes for work or for a side project that makes money you have to pay.

I don't mind paying because it's worth it.

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

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

Counterpoint:

I know grammatically it isn't the most correct, but I don't see anything non-idiomatic about "amount of features".

Reason: "Just the right amount" is a set, idiomatic expression. "Just the right amount of ___" is just extending the expression. IMO extending idiomatic expressions exempts it from a lot of the formal word-pairing conventions in English.

But I'm no linguist.

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