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Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

#131

This is really sleek. I like the focus on minimalism since what I often need is a simple interface to take down quick notes, thoughts, and ideas. Any plans to offer a self-hosted version?

Thanks for the warm feedback! I see that self hosting is a popular request so I'll start planning it :)

That's great to hear! Hope to see an update on HN when the self-hosted version is ready.

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

#132
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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!

`jrnl` commandline tool does the same with a text file. You can sync it with dropbox and use the same journal across multiple machines.

Thanks for the hat-tip on `jrnl` - this is a much better version of the cmd line tool I talked about in my comment above and I am now starting to use it. Great logistics being cli-based, think I'm going to be using it plenty.

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

#134

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'm doing this via VSCode, Cline and various services connected via MCP. Works quite well.

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Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

#135
post #76

Made a iOS Shortcuts implementation: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2f43a044f7b5478f92fa4506d8a... Might be useful for someone.

This is pretty neat! Is font formatting allowed/possible in shortcuts? Would love the timestamp to be on a mono font! Tried fiddling with it, but haven't been able to figured it out.

Not with Apple Notes I’m afraid, as there is no inline code formatting.

But generally yes, you can use the “Rich text from markdown” action and then pass the output to Notes.

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

#136

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Yes. Having the note encoded in the URL would be a great way to share that.

added a share option in the note editor, let me know what you think

Thanks!

I'll start using it for sharing times of Carbide Motion files.

EDIT: One last feature request --- add an option/UI where a beginning time allotment could be entered (say 60 minutes for a 1 hr. meeting) and the time would be counted down for each entry? and then then time over shown once the allotment was used up? This would seem to match the typical usage of managing notes for a meeting.

For bonus points, add in a way to add hourly rates so that the on-going cost of the meeting will show up? (though maybe that's too cluttered).

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

#137

Let me ask a random note-taking question. I am a heavy user of Roam ( before that workflowy, before that org mode). I have daily checklists, but also some extensive notes on specific topics and some large projects I'm tracking. But I'm so heavily using LLMs now to help with researching topics. And I haven't found a good way to bring my LLM usage to my note taking. I'd love to be able to go over some things with an LL…

Did you try obsidian plugins for this?
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