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

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Post by bobbylarrybobby »

escapecharacter wrote: post #78
bartvk wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about mobile? Or don't you take notes there?

For me, this is always the gap that feels missing. - I want to take and view notes on various devices: mobile, personal computer, work computer, randomly logged in ad-hoc machine. - I want notes to not require me to be online all the time while writing (I work a lot on plans, or in remote locations without reliable internet) - I want notes to make reasonable assumptions about syncing, biasing on the side of avoiding…

is iCloud.com really that bad?

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

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Post by nunodonato »

beretguy wrote: post #46
siegers wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

exactly, I also hate websites that rely on oauth alone.

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

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Post by akaij »

quartesixte wrote: post #70
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 :)

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.

Depending on the flavour of the linguist, they could say "as long as the correct meaning is conveyed, go wild" :)

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

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Post by pkulak »

bartvk wrote: post #75
pkulak wrote: post #55

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

What about mobile? Or don't you take notes there?

I set up PolyGit on my phone. So I can take new notes by pulling, editing, and the pushing. It's a pain, not gonna lie. But I don't take notes away from any of my computers that often. Mostly I'm in a work meeting, reading an email, something like that, so it doesn't come up too often.

All it would take to be awesome would be to find a mobile git app that required fewer button presses, so I'm hopeful.

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

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Post by pkulak »

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #76
pkulak wrote: post #55

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

Why the two single quotes before the subshells?

Oh, that's my bad. I copied this from my Nix config and that's how you escape.

https://git.sr.ht/~pkulak/nix/tree/main/item/home/default.ni...

https://git.sr.ht/~pkulak/nix/tree/main/item/home/default.ni...

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

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Post by quartesixte »

crashmat wrote: post #79
quartesixte wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think amount of is usually used for 'continuous' (I'm not sure on the word) substances like flour, water, or salt, rather than multiples of discreet objects.

I can also have:

Just the right amount of cats Just the right amount of internet points Just the right amount of chutzpah

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

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Post by laurels-marts »

pkulak wrote: post #55

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

But what do you use to actually take the notes? After trying a bunch of apps I settled on VS Code with a custom Profile that has all the settings, extensions and UI states that I need for taking markdown notes.

I realised that I already spend at minimum 8-10 hours a day in VS Code, why learn another app with all the different quirks, UI and key bindings...

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

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Post by enasterosophes »

pkulak wrote: post #55

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

To this, it works well to add inotifywait to detect when files are saved. You can pipe the save detections to a loop that git-commits only that one file, providing a more granular history with very little cost.

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

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Post by willio58 »

iseeyouseewesee wrote: post #24

some feedback: as a first time visitor, the pricing page is really confusing. if its free why is there a stripe faq immediately below? i am still confused whether this product is free or paid without signing up. the pricing page requires some rework imo

I think having pricing linked like that is an immediate turn-off to potential users. Personally the second I see a pricing link in a nav bar I assume, without even clicking, that it's a paid service. Renaming the link to "Donate", or something similar might make more sense.
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