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Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app

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Post by hailruda »

James_K wrote: post #8
ifrosted wrote: post #2

Yesterday, I had a simple need—I wanted a quick way to jot down thoughts without the hassle of creating new notes or organizing folders. Instead of searching for an existing solution, I built one myself. That's how NoteUX was born! It’s a minimalist, distraction-free note-taking space with multiple scratch pads, so you can quickly type and switch between notes without any extra steps. No sign-ups, no clutter—just an…

Text editor is already invented but nice try.

>without the hassle of creating new notes or organizing folders

Have you missed this part?

Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app

#13

Post by abraxas »

hailruda wrote: post #11
James_K wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Text editor is already invented but nice try.

>without the hassle of creating new notes or organizing folders Have you missed this part?

Not the OP but I share the sentiment. Doesn't everyone have a default text editor with a Ctrl-N shortcut or equivalent to create an empty text file? That's what I do every time I need to create a quick note. Maybe I don't spend as much time in the browser as everyone else.

Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app

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Post by sheepscreek »

jedimastert wrote: post #10
ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #5

What I really miss right now is a chrome extension that replaces the new tab page with a note taking space. I used to use an extension called papier that had a simple interface, just the right amount of configurability and a beautiful design (particularly good color schemes). The extension got removed because of its incompatibility with the new manifest V3. The current alternatives are either too involved with too mu…

Wow, I used to use Papier all the time. I sort of forgot about it when I migrated from Chrome to Firefox and didn't really find a good alternative, but man that plugin was legitimately a huge part of my life for a while. I'm sad to heard it's going away, it was an absolutely genius idea

As developers have to support themselves in some way, would you be willing to use a similar ad-supported extension? Or perhaps pay a small amount to support development more directly and go ad-free?

Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app

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Post by freetonik »

I love tiny note taking solutions. My favorite app of all time is (was?) nvALT [1].

The simplest in-browser solution actually requires zero pages or apps, see this bookmarklet [2]. It opens a full-page text area. No saving, but immediate and does not need a network connection.

Alternatively, not as easy as a publicly available web page, but if you want to have a very fast and minimalist self-hosted note taking app (with fast search and the ability to attach files and download websites), check out my small project called Textpod [3].

[1]. https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/ [2]. https://bookmarklet.one/bm/quick-note/ [3]. https://github.com/freetonik/textpod

Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app

#16

Post by numinix »

I like the idea! The different scratch pads are cool. But I'm always a bit worried with localStorage of losing my work, is that a fair concern?

If you're looking for feedback, you could consider:

- Host the javascript and fonts yourself, only downsides (privacy, slower) in using a CDN. Ko-fi, Google fonts, Google analytics, Cloudflare, Bootstrapcdn, Numoh -- are all these entities required for note taking?

- Excessive user analytics: Google Analytics is not configured for privacy. Also another Numoh Analytics, but that seems disabled at the moment?

- A pretty writing experience helps me stay in a flow. Nothing wrong with Arial 16px #000, but not inviting either. There is still a lot to win from a typography perspective.

- The saving to .txt is nice, but I'd want a plain text (or markdown) version, no html. Also would be nice if the filename was optimized (scratchpad + timestamp).

- Instead of all CSS inline, it might prevent the flash of a white-screen if the styling was saved/cached in css file, or the prefers-color-scheme tag.

- You've added an tag but styled it with a font-size smaller than your body text, this makes it lose it semantics (i.e. also no SEO/UX value).

Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app

#18

Post by criddell »

SebastianKra wrote: post #9
marban wrote: post #7

Built-in will always win for tools like that => Notes.app

Last time I checked, Notes.app couldn't even export notes in formats other than PDF.

Considering it's likely the most used note keeping app there is, that isn't much of a blocker for an awful lot of people.

Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app

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Post by squealish »

ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #5

What I really miss right now is a chrome extension that replaces the new tab page with a note taking space. I used to use an extension called papier that had a simple interface, just the right amount of configurability and a beautiful design (particularly good color schemes). The extension got removed because of its incompatibility with the new manifest V3. The current alternatives are either too involved with too mu…

Papier is still available in Brave it seems.

Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app

#20

Post by kevindamm »

ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #5

What I really miss right now is a chrome extension that replaces the new tab page with a note taking space. I used to use an extension called papier that had a simple interface, just the right amount of configurability and a beautiful design (particularly good color schemes). The extension got removed because of its incompatibility with the new manifest V3. The current alternatives are either too involved with too mu…

I use a variation of this as a bookmarklet, perhaps you'll find it useful:

data:text/html,

You could probably set that as the URL of your home page to get the behavior you described.

I add a style="height:100%" in the HTML tag so that clicking anywhere puts focus on it for editing. You could add other styling and initial content as desired.

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