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

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Post by mnbbrown »

siegers wrote: post #104
arnorhs wrote: post #102

The sign up process is not very fluid to me. First off, I don't really like password signups in general, but on Android I was able to get auto generated password for the password field but was stuck because the Google password manager didn't recognize the other field as a password confirmation. So I couldn't copy between them and going to a different app to write a long password and going back and copy paste just see…

Thanks for the feedback. One reason for the username is for cleaner profiles when publishing - https://learn.lowercase.app/publishing/documents.html#adding...

Could ask for a username the first time they publish. Low friction

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Post by DemocracyFTW2 »

_wire_ wrote: post #116
pkulak wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry. Nix. And it’s too late to edit.

Thx, just wondering if that was an arcane bash idiom. Very tricky to get anything useful from the web about ''.

Bash and Perl, where any number of punctuation marks in a row could plausibly mean something

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

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Post by gitinit »

purple-leafy wrote: post #120
gitinit wrote: post #89

This seems amazing, except for the fact that it's not open source and can't be self-hosted. That, to me at least, is the most important part of a note-taking app.

It’s annoying when people pester developers to open source their hard work, and not at least give a justification as to why they should do it How do you suppose they protect their IP and what they’ve built from someone just stealing the code?

Open-sourcing the code allows some level of assurance that your data is not being used for profit and that if the hosted version goes away, it can still be used as a self-hosted service.

In addition, it can allow the devs to accept contributions, making their job maintaining the program easier.

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

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Post by gitinit »

mspcommentary wrote: post #121
purple-leafy wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s annoying when people pester developers to open source their hard work, and not at least give a justification as to why they should do it How do you suppose they protect their IP and what they’ve built from someone just stealing the code?

They aren't pestering the developers; they made a comment on HN about what, to them, is an essential feature of a note-taking app. The developers may never see it. I happen to agree with them. The single most important aspect of a note-taking app is that I must own my notes. That means that I must be able to take them elsewhere if I want. Including, in fact, especially, if the company hosting them goes out of busines…

What note-taking app are you using currently, if any? I've been using Silverbullet [1] for a while now and love it due to it's usage of plain-text markdown files in a normal directory structure to actually store the notes. Yet, it supports many other features such as query language and to a certain extent, federation with other SilverBullet instances. The only major downside for me is that whilst it's usable on mobile, it feels cramped.

[0]: https://silverbullet.md

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Post by rpdillon »

cole-k wrote: post #44
littlestymaar wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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."

Yes, less vs fewer always catches my ear. If you can count it, it's 'fewer', if not, it's 'less'.

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Post by ahmadmijot »

Few years back after countless hours of deciding which note taking apps that suits me, I just settled with Obsidian (I briefly used Dendron before that). I realised that I am not that power user of thing like this. Similar with what kind of indexing/management systems. I just fuck it no analysis paralysis, just do with whatever work for now.

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

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Post by gooseyman »

bushwald wrote: post #93
digging wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

+1 Logseq is great. I use it with Syncthing across my devices.

Have you found syncthing to cause any noticeable drain your battery? Also, does it handle merge conflicts well?

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

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Post by hu3 »

laurels-marts wrote: post #87
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...

Often I need to consult notes on my phone, is there an app to comfortably browse and search notes in phone?

Preferably offline with syncing.

Today I use Joplin but it has custom file format.

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Post by NayamAmarshe »

infinitedata wrote: post #123
NayamAmarshe wrote: post #13

Amazing work! Thank you for sharing here. A while ago, I made something exactly like this called writedown: https://writedown.app It is a free and open source, simple and easy to use Notion alternative. I had to leave it midway (it's ready to use and stable though) because my other projects needed attention but I'll get back to it someday :)

Interesting quirk I noticed when accessing your site: 1. The site was shown in a light-theme version and the sun icon on the upper-right corner. 2. When clicked on the sun, it changed to a moon icon but nothing else changed, the light theme was still on. 3. When clicked again, the moon changed to the sun but this time the dark-theme was engaged. The only issue is that the dark theme is displayed but the sun icon appe…

Thanks for the feedback! writedown has been in beta for almost a year and we weren't working on it for the last 8 months, so I apologize for any unpolished features.

We're actually in the process of changing the whole landing page and updating the app, so hopefully it will be stable enough soon :)

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