The market is flooded with developers which could make one worried about earning a living with such competition, but most of them are making note taking apps like this so if you just walk a few steps up the hanging fruit beyond the low hanging ones you're back in a no competition zone.
Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app
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Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app
#32I 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 (w…
I was able to use nv (nvALT was a fork) before the development stopped and people slowly figured out it stopped. The website is still up https://notational.net and the last binary is still up for download. It worked for a crazy long time as it was. I am not sure but iirc there were some "stability" patches, in the original nv, or not. Then nvALT also stopped and then Brett started on something else and that kinda too…
I just downloaded nvALT on Sonoma (14.3), and it runs, but looks a bit funky. The styling of some elements is slightly broken, but does not seem to affect the functionality. I haven't tested all the features though.
>Now I just try to use something that lets me keep notes in a folder and use it but then iOS becomes a mess unless I use iCloud
I didn't quite understand: do you want an app that syncs to iOS but not via iCloud?
Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app
#33Built-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.
There are some open source tools, e.g. https://github.com/storizzi/notes-exporter
I've used another tool in the past (cannot remember the name), and it worked ok.
I personally cannot trust Apple to store data, so I only use Apple Notes for throw-away notes like shopping lists.
Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app
#34What 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.
I do too. I've been wondering if there's some short JavaScript I could add to retrieve text from local storage when loaded, and update local storage after every change. Not so it persists for months, but just so it survives a tab close or a browser restart.
Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app
#35Reminds me Tot by IconFactory. https://blog.iconfactory.com/2020/02/meet-tot-your-tiny-text...
OTOH, this one’s had a new release in the last 2 years. I loved the idea of Tot and bought it, but it has its glitches and doesn't seem to be actively supported anymore.
Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app
#36I would consider this a website, not an app (misleading title).
For an app (on Android), I like "Notepad" by Braden Farmer (I just search the creator's name to find it). It has no unnecessary permissions.
Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app
#37The OG drill book (Unix Power Tools) had a tip for quick note taking - redirect to /dev/null. For the past 25 years I pretty much always have a terminal window open with a shell redirecting to /dev/null so I can copy and paste or type quickly. I suppose if you wanted to save it you could redirect to a file instead of /dev/null but I always treat it as a buffer that will eventually go away.
Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app
#38Semi-related: is there a modern equivalent of Notational Velocity? I used to love it. Similar to this app, there was a focus on speed. But Notational Velocity (and NValt) also had great search built-in
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#39This doesn’t seem to work for me in Firefox on iPhone SE 3. After I hit start typing here, the screen just goes blank and nothing appears when I type anything.
Re: Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app
#40data: text/html,