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Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped
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Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped
#42I love that you made it so simple to use!
I've started building a similar app before, except with more of a focus on the timestamps than the text (prioritizing time tracking over note taking). I ended up switching gears to different side projects and never came back to this one.
That being said, a feature I'd begun to implement that you could consider adding is what I called Context Tags. It looks like in Notetime tags are applied to notes to provide better organization. Context tags in contrast would be applied to timestamped lines within the note. When moving to the next line, the new one would default to having the same context tags.
That's it! That's the whole feature. This let's a user tag the first line in a category, such as "work" or "project A", then gain that categorization for any subsequent lines (until the user specified a new category).
Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped
#43Why not just use Notepad in Windows and hit F5 Time/Date at need? 9:54 AM 3/21/2025 That said, this sort of thing has me wishing for something like to Services support in Windows where that could be implemented as a Service by Notepad and then used in any context where text input is acceptable.
The additional metadata like tags, and the overall streamlining of the workflow. Yes, most things can be taped together with a little effort, but if this is something that vibes very well with you, then this is a substantial incremental improvement.
Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped
#44The timestamp on each line gets recorded when return is entered. Is there a way to record the timestamp on when the line started instead? Maybe make it configurable?
Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped
#45What’s the tech stack like?
Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped
#46It does not do images.
Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped
#47I like the idea, but not the web-based implementation. Local first, and ideally an open source app that can work offline when I'm going distraction free. It feels like a vim plugin. It definitely feels like org-mode can do this. A few years back I had a little command line tool where I could log things quickly - it was like syslog for humans - but with #hashtags for projects or clients, and then a small tool that wou…
I came here to type all of these thoughts, and found you'd already expressed them (and more). Even the bit about making my own command line tool.
Agree!
Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why git though? Wouldn't it be simpler to just append the timestamp to the beginning or end of each line/paragraph, and just hide it when editing?
Yeah, I do something similar with org-node (org-roam alternative) where every capture templates has an inactive timestamp at the end before the tags. i.e. Idea: Build minesweeper in the terminal with Ratatui @ [2025-02-05 Wed 18:01] :@someday: And then I capture it in a daily note (or very rarely refile it) that has an org-id. Then everything gets connected with links and backlinks. I keep the usual CREATED in the pr…
My org capture template from bernt Hanson's website clocks in and out giving you a timestamp. There is a "note" capture type.
Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped
#49It does not do images.
Images aren't notes.
Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped
#50I really don't get how this can't be emulated with the F5 key, or something like Sublime Text's InsertDate package, or a text expansion software. What does this note taking provide that's any different?
having to hit an extra key and miss out on cross-device syncing sound like two great reasons to not emulate this in anything else