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Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

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Post by bayesianbot »

Tiberium wrote: post #14

Telegram's Saved Messages (essentially self-texting) is also commonly used for saving info, somewhat recently they even added tagging and the ability to view messages that you forwarded into there per chat (so you can see all messages that you ever saved from some group you're in). Of course it all lives on their cloud and is not local.

Though tagging is only available for the (kinda pricey) Premium subscription.

Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

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Post by Dwolb »

eguchi1904 wrote: post #35
dewey wrote: post #11

This somehow seems to be a solution in search of a problem. The reason people use self texting is that they _don't_ want to use another app. Not because the existing apps are somehow missing features. > I often defaulted to dumping notes into chat apps like Slack or iMessage What makes you think people think differently about this app? If people wanted all these features they would already all be covered by Apple Not…

I understand your point. For me, though, existing apps like Slack or iMessage were insufficient because, at the end of the day, they aren’t “note-taking apps.” By creating a dedicated note app combined with a chat-style timeline-focused UI, I feel that the speed and quality of note-taking have improved. However, I understand that it might not be for everyone, and I appreciate your feedback!

Honestly I love the direction and I do this all the time.

If you could 1) integrate directly with iMessage so I'm literally just texting and 2) have your interface provide me some sort of LLM summary tool/weekly digest/remind me of things smartly (I dunno it's up to you to figure out), I'd probably do this.

Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

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Post by hexmiles »

dewey wrote: post #11

This somehow seems to be a solution in search of a problem. The reason people use self texting is that they _don't_ want to use another app. Not because the existing apps are somehow missing features. > I often defaulted to dumping notes into chat apps like Slack or iMessage What makes you think people think differently about this app? If people wanted all these features they would already all be covered by Apple Not…

As a counter: I love the concept, I often message myself not because I don't want to use another app, but because I like the workflow and the UI. Most notes app work with a concept similar to files organized in a structure (be tags or folder) instead chat app are primarily chronological, also the UI is more oriented for quick addition than most note's app; I get that this don't make sense for everyone but an app like this is exactly what I want.

Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

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Post by eguchi1904 »

dougdimmadome wrote: post #39

I've been look for exactly this! (or planning to build it) I abuse the telegram "Saved" channel to send myself thoughts, notes, reminders, pics, etc as if I'm chatting to the me who's back at his desk. I wanted to get away from that and not rely on telegram. Unfortunately I'm an android user so I'll probably have to keep using Telegram for the time being. Is there an android client in the works?

Thank you! I can really relate to that habit. Unfortunately, I haven’t started working on an Android version yet, so it doesn’t seem likely to be available soon. Sorry about that.

Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

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Post by sva_ »

dougdimmadome wrote: post #39

I've been look for exactly this! (or planning to build it) I abuse the telegram "Saved" channel to send myself thoughts, notes, reminders, pics, etc as if I'm chatting to the me who's back at his desk. I wanted to get away from that and not rely on telegram. Unfortunately I'm an android user so I'll probably have to keep using Telegram for the time being. Is there an android client in the works?

You can also message yourself in Signal

Re: Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

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Post by jcynix »

One more app? I'm skeptical. https://xkcd.com/927/ is about standards, but it could easily be about apps instead.

My note taking takes place either classically via email with mutt in a terminal, not with these gargantuan desktop "apps", or with existing apps like Blitzmail on Android, or Joplin. Joplin just needs a WebDAV server to store notes and is available for multiple platforms, so I can easily swap notes between mobile and desktop/laptop.

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