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Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

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Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

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post #45

What’s the tech stack like?

its a 100% client-side react app, there are no server requests except from the first one creating the anonymous user. the local DB is SQLite implementation that supports offline mode and cloud sync (not enabled in this version)

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

#113
post #51

Timestamped notes/lines are great, I've had these in my .vimrc for years "insert date iabbrev dts strftime("\* %D - %A\n\t") "insert datetime iabbrev dtt strftime("%D %H:%M:%S:")

For the uneducated, how do you use those? Is there a way to insert those automatically, just like the submission does?

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

#114
post #15

This is lovely. I maintain a dev log at work where I manually time-stamp entries section wise, but many times I’m doing it after the fact. Ability to edit the time stamps and then search based on it would make this super powered. Actually, I would love to combine this with Heynote[0], have you considered it? [0]: https://heynote.com/

Very useful app. Thanks for sharing

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

#116
post #83

Why 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.

There is no F5 key on iphones :) I couldn't find any simple apple-notes-like app, that is available on all platforms, and allows logging in this style. my private version of this app has cross-device sync, it's just not fully baked yet since I need to implement some form of signup (google/apple), and there's also the privacy issue people are concerned about which I'm not sure how to address.

Point!

If you could make a way to share a note attached to a specific name, it would work very nicely for one usage which needs timestamping I've been working on (which is why I had the F5 thing at the ready), tracking how long it takes to cut a given file on a CNC, then sharing that result.

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

#117

I 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 do this with Zim (desktop wiki).

Fellow Zim user here. Is there a way to add time stamps to each line in Zim like this app does?

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

#118

I 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 have a command line tool that just takes a line of input, then writes the time stamped entry to a text file, one per quarter. A cron job pops up a terminal once an hour during business hours. I use that log to prepare for performance reviews to recall what I’d worked on, and I often go back to remember details about a problem I solved months or years ago. It’s fantastic, been using it for seven years.

In 2023, I wrote another script that appends a line to a csv file every 5 minutes. The line includes the focused window class, command line, title, name of the git branch that’s currently checked out, system idle time, and WiFi access point name. So I know pretty much how long I was working on everything vs other stuff like slack.

I’m finally starting to write tools to visualize and analyze this data. Is it going to change how I work? Not really, but for some reason I like seeing at a glance how I spent my time.

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

#119
post #51

Timestamped notes/lines are great, I've had these in my .vimrc for years "insert date iabbrev dts strftime("\* %D - %A\n\t") "insert datetime iabbrev dtt strftime("%D %H:%M:%S:")

For the uneducated, how do you use those? Is there a way to insert those automatically, just like the submission does?

I got it. One enters `dtt`, or `dts` and space. It gets replaced by date, or timestamp accordingly. Pretty neat!

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

#120
post #51

Timestamped notes/lines are great, I've had these in my .vimrc for years "insert date iabbrev dts strftime("\* %D - %A\n\t") "insert datetime iabbrev dtt strftime("%D %H:%M:%S:")

For the uneducated, how do you use those? Is there a way to insert those automatically, just like the submission does?

Those are basically string-replacements. Add those lines to .vim/vimrc, and when you type "dtt" or "dts" that text gets replaced with a time/date stamp.

Kinda useful if you want to manually add date/time to lines, but a different thing.

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