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Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by ThomPete » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 4:40 PM UTC

Also a humble request.

I literally went through 3 developers and too much money until I was so luck to find @jimmyhoughjr.

Jimmys primary expertise is iOS but I convinced him to help me out on this project for the money I could afford.

Jimmy could use some freelance work as he has been out of work for while now (and live in the mid-west).

So if you need an extra hand on som iOS work don't hesitate to connect with him. He is a really nice guy and he is one of the main reasons Ghostnote even is anything today.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by jasonlotito » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 4:41 PM UTC

It's slow to open the note. I click on the ghost, and it doesn't open right away. It's not long, but noticeable, and distracting. Also, there is no click feedback. This wouldn't be a problem if the note opened right away, but with no visible feedback, it feels like clicking does nothing.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by pvinis » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 4:50 PM UTC

i saw it randomly a couple of days ago on #macdev. looks interesting. a couple of questions though. is there a "all notes" place? what happens to the note if you delete the file to which it is attached?

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by ThomPete » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 4:52 PM UTC

chaghalibaghali wrote: post #19

ThomPete wrote: post #5

Hi everyone I could write a whole book about this project and what i had to go through to get it out but finally I think its there. Ghostnote allow you to add notes to almost anything on your mac. Files, folders, applications, websites and even documents open inside applications (ex a photoshop document). I made it because I am not good at structuring and often just need notes for specific context but soon realized t…

This is a really great idea, was there anything specific to OS X that allowed you to get the contextual information you need, or do you think you'll be able to port it to other operating systems in the future?

No doubt OSX is a little easier. I have been looking into windows and have some solutions for it but OSX just have some easy ways to fetch the context.

It was not without issues because of the sandbox so we were also rejected once (for unknown reasons still) but found another way to do it.

We literally is building a whitelist with app ids and how to speak with each of the different apps. However we have only explored a tiny fraction of whats possible.

In the next update users will be able to script things themselves. But we are looking at Windows.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by ThomPete » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 4:56 PM UTC

pvinis wrote: post #23

i saw it randomly a couple of days ago on #macdev. looks interesting. a couple of questions though. is there a "all notes" place? what happens to the note if you delete the file to which it is attached?

There isn't an all notes place for now.

It's the #1 request but the catch is from people before they have tried it.

We are still on the fence but will probable end up adding it (and normal context-less note taking) but it's going to change the app quite dramatically so for now no.

However next update we add the ability to customize via applescript and there you could in theory just make it add the notes to ex. evernote everytime you add somehting.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by ThomPete » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 4:58 PM UTC

jasonlotito wrote: post #22

It's slow to open the note. I click on the ghost, and it doesn't open right away. It's not long, but noticeable, and distracting. Also, there is no click feedback. This wouldn't be a problem if the note opened right away, but with no visible feedback, it feels like clicking does nothing.

Hi Jason lotito sorry to hear you are having issues. Shouldn't be slow at all.

If you want to we can see whats going on. Just write us a mail on info at ghostnoteapp.com and we will look into it.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by txu » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 5:01 PM UTC

ThomPete wrote: post #21

Also a humble request. I literally went through 3 developers and too much money until I was so luck to find @jimmyhoughjr. Jimmys primary expertise is iOS but I convinced him to help me out on this project for the money I could afford. Jimmy could use some freelance work as he has been out of work for while now (and live in the mid-west). So if you need an extra hand on som iOS work don't hesitate to connect with him…

Congratulations! May I ask how did you reach out to developers and how long did the project take. I assume you designed it? Thanks! :-)

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by jjd1103 » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 5:03 PM UTC

Holy crap. Looked at the site and thought, "hey, pretty cool. I don't know what I would use it for, though."

And then I watched the video and have been coming up with use cases non-stop. Starting with adding vim key-bindings I'm trying to learn to iTerm. Bye-bye yellow-stickies all over my monitor!

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by ThomPete » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 5:05 PM UTC

joshstrange wrote: post #16

This looks really neat right now I use NVAlt hotkey'd to Cntr+1 to hide/show and that get's synced to Simplenote which I use on my iPhone. I have a "temp" note where I store short-lived snippets, urls, etc and I normally just do something like: #Reason I have this saved Saved data.... .... .... I'd be interested in trying this out though to see how it compares. The one thing I really like about my setup is everything…

I know i keep repeating this but in our next update we get support for customizing applescript. Perhaps you can do something there.

The main idea though is to treat these notes a little more like real post-it-notes. I.e. forgettable things that truly live in the context and you only have to worry about in that context.

Re: Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app

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Post by freebs » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 5:07 PM UTC

ThomPete wrote: post #5

Hi everyone I could write a whole book about this project and what i had to go through to get it out but finally I think its there. Ghostnote allow you to add notes to almost anything on your mac. Files, folders, applications, websites and even documents open inside applications (ex a photoshop document). I made it because I am not good at structuring and often just need notes for specific context but soon realized t…

It looks pretty awesome! I think it could be even better if you allowed notes to be attached to a particular web element.

Also, imagine the possibilities if you could attach categories. Say you have someone new joining a team, you could essentially give them access to a category and they could see all the notes. It would be like Slack channels except you have the context built in :D