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Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Post by atul_wired »

rayhano wrote: post #50
atul_wired wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks like a great tool.. but for these kind of sites, I always feel uncomfortable to signup and then store my personal information in their databases. I could easily end up giving them my personal ideas and my professional work related stuff.. We really don't know who is looking at our data on other side and what kinda security measures(if any) they are taking to secure the same. Your thoughts?

Interesting point about privacy. Does anyone else have similar concerns? I am of the opinion that life is too short to worry, plus people generally aren't able to steal ideas. Execution is always very different. Look at the Xerox-Apple-Microsoft implementations of GUIs... All very different. My ideas start on napkins or Notes on the iPhone, get translated to Workflowy and then fully drafted and edited into a blog pos…

Sharing explicitly versus gaining access to your data are completely separate things. Moreover, how about pushing your professional data to these sites? I don't want to use separate tools for ideas which I'm fine if someone steals them and which not..

Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Post by waxjar »

I keep a lot of notes, recipes, code snippets, lists, ideas, etc in Notational Velocity. I keep them in a folder on my Dropbox. That means I've always got access to them, provided I have access to a computer with internet and a simple text editor.

Notational Velocity has an amazingly simple interface. And it's fast. It deals just with text, which is all I need.

To ease online access, I've dived into my first Ember.js adventure and am writing a simple web application that mimics Notational Velocity. It accesses files trough the Dropbox API. It's not done yet, but it's on its way :)

Linky: http://notational.net/

Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Post by waxjar »

zrail wrote: post #10

I literally wrote an entire app just for this exact use case. https://www.marginalia.io There's a REST api and an email API. You email ideas to a special address and it creates notes for you. You can append further refinements when it replies with a note-unique email address. You can sort notes into projects, add tags, search, sort, and export to plain HTML or PDF.

I recommend putting at least a screenshot on your landing page. Whenever I'm looking for software, I'd like a quick look at the UI to decide I want to try or not.

If there are a lot of competing services, I tend to pick one that has UI previews to save time.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Post by zrail »

waxjar wrote: post #63
zrail wrote: post #10

I literally wrote an entire app just for this exact use case. https://www.marginalia.io There's a REST api and an email API. You email ideas to a special address and it creates notes for you. You can append further refinements when it replies with a note-unique email address. You can sort notes into projects, add tags, search, sort, and export to plain HTML or PDF.

I recommend putting at least a screenshot on your landing page. Whenever I'm looking for software, I'd like a quick look at the UI to decide I want to try or not. If there are a lot of competing services, I tend to pick one that has UI previews to save time.

Thanks for the tip. I have some screenshots on the tour page but you're right, there should be one on the homepage too.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your ideas?

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Post by white »

I run a custom site that I share with a limited group of partners/friends with a rating system where everybody can rate/comment on my ideas. I'm not the only one who posts ideas though.

P.S. Wanna invite? Email me why.

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