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

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Post by ThomPete »

txu wrote: post #27
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! :-)

I tried odesk, elance etc. the whole sherade and they all ended up not delivering.

I still hang out on IRC and through the #macdev channel via one of the moderators i was put in contact with Jimmy.

Just goes to show, few things beat personal recommendations.

But please if you have any work please help out Jimmy he is a really good developer just caught in a shitty situation.

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

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Post by jkestner »

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…

I like this. I may try it out in spite of having too many note-taking strategies already (and this wouldn't replace everything else). Please do share your story - it's good marketing and it makes people feel better about paying (a measly) $5 when they understand what and who is behind it. Given the value and the ongoing work you'll be doing to add support for different contexts, I think you could raise the price to $10.

Are you using the extended attributes to store notes in each file? If so, that'd make it easier to pass the notes along to other people. I could easily see this being useful across art departments.

You probably have this on your to-do list, but you could use the new capability to badge icons in the Finder so I know there's a ghostnote attached.

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

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Post by robinreekers »

jjd1103 wrote: post #28

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!

Was thinking the exact same thing!

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

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Post by ThomPete »

freebs wrote: post #30
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

Yeah we are looking at that too.

In theory with the next update where you can customize your scripts you could write it yourself. We of course hope people will and will share stuff we don't get around doing.

But lots of little things are on our list.

With regards to the categories. Great idea!

We are working on a solution where you can share notes via ex. dropbox. So i add some notes to a folder or a file and you can read those notes. Dropbox deals with the syncing.

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

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Post by ThomPete »

jjd1103 wrote: post #28

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!

Fantastic. Please don't hesitate to share your other use cases.

What I have found is that once you get your head around it's contextual you realize that this is how everything should work.

If you end up buying it send me a note and I will add you to the betal list so you can get acces to the new version with applescript support.

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

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Post by erader »

shayanjm wrote: post #3

Looks like something I'd use every day if executed properly. Some things that I think would make this an awesome app: 1) IFTTT integration would be sweet. "If i get an e-mail about something, remind me to do it by putting it in my contextual note for an application" 2) iCloud integration would be sweeter. Unified notes for applications that exist in "desktop form" and "mobile form". 3) A "view all notes" option to be…

Definitely +1 on the "view all notes" options. Knowing full well that Ghostnote was intended for people like me that don't necessarily use structure for note-taking and need the context, I don't want to find my self in a position of not being able to find an important note because I'm not looking at that file/URL at that moment.

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

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Post by tgokh »

ThomPete wrote: post #11
julee04 wrote: post #9

I think it would be useful if the ghost in the menu bar changes color if there's actually a note attached to the document/folder. So that you wouldn't have to constantly check if you actually wrote down notes for it

Agree it in the list of things to do.

And for files/folders, maybe have the icon change to reflect that there's a note attached (in the same way Dropbox modifies icons).

I think it's a great tool but I worry I would just forget where I had attached my note: to the root folder for a project, to one of the many project files etc

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

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Post by ThomPete »

tgokh wrote: post #37
ThomPete wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree it in the list of things to do.

And for files/folders, maybe have the icon change to reflect that there's a note attached (in the same way Dropbox modifies icons). I think it's a great tool but I worry I would just forget where I had attached my note: to the root folder for a project, to one of the many project files etc

Good points. We are def looking into some of these scenarios.
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