Looks very useful, before I buy, two questions:
1. Do you support any keyboard combinations to add or view notes while a folder or document has focus?
2. Are the notes stored on disk or in a cloud account somewhere?
Show HN: Ghostnote – Contextual notes and todo app
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#82i 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. everno…
no dont add a contextless note mode. im just thinking that i will forget where i had notes..
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#83This looks fantastic. I watched through the video and looked on the feature page, but couldn't figure out two key things: - Is there a way to do a text search on all your notes? - Are your notes saved in any sort of exportable format?
> Are your notes saved in any sort of exportable format?
This is a critical feature, and one many note and todo apps forget. Silos of information is A Bad Thing [TM]
Being able to gather notes distributed among objects into a single text file makes this app easily twice as useful (on top of an already great idea).
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#84$4.99 is an easy impulse buy for any productivity geek with a Mac. The only reason I haven't made the purchase is that I'm still living in the dark ages with Mountain Lion. I'll echo what others have said and suggest pricing this higher, right up there with Alfred and similar apps.
A couple of questions. Where is the data stored? Is it possible to retrieve or migrate data to a new Mac or new install?
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 $…
I tried searching, but couldn't find a definitive answer: are resource forks still a problem when transferring files to non-os X systems? If I understood what I found correctly, dropbox handles resource forks (presumably just copying hidden _-metadata-files when using the app for os x) -- and apparently smb/cifs support resource forks (but I don't know how eg samba3/4 would store them on an ext4/zfs-backed file syste…
Yeah so one idea we are hoping to push with Ghostnote is to use it to store notes for sharing.
So if you are using ex. Dropbox ghostnote will detect that and and the notes to the actual asset itself. That way others can see those notes and dropbox handles the syncing issues.
You could even send attach files to emails and send them with notes embedded if you wanted. We are looking at some of these things and I am thinking with a little bit of luck this might be a good way to promote it.
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#86Nice idea and beautiful execution. One question though: If I detach and move between tabs in Chrome / Safari by keyboard shortcut, the note does not recognize the change of tab. Is this because I'm using 10.9 or is it a bug?
And you have a typo at http://www.ghostnoteapp.com/appsuggestions/ ("mailingist").
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#87Bought it, pretty cool.
The demo video shows notes contextual based on the current directory in a terminal. It isn't clear to me how to configure that to work - it doesn't seem to by default. Do I need to configure my terminal to change the window title based on current folder or something like that?
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#88Apple should buy you. This is the kind of new feature that I want out of an OS update. It's incredibly useful, but requires deep system integration to work perfectly. Unfortunately, without access to private APIs, I imagine you're going to hit a wall sooner than later. For example, right now, moving a file breaks its relationship with a note, and an open file's notes aren't associated with the file's finder icon. I i…
>For example, right now, moving a file breaks its relationship with a note, and an open file's notes aren't associated with the file's finder icon.
That's interesting. Is there a workaround or quick way to transfer notes? I often rearrange files.
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#89Holy 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!
Question, though. What if your notes are too context specific. So, for example, the note would bind to the specific file you are viewing in vim, whereas the contents of the note would be helpful for any file opened in vim?
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#90I'm confused, the demo video showed a problem to me when the dev typed "simple but effective" on the iTunes connect site but when he switched back to his app site, it showed the same "simple but effective" message instead of the proper one. It should've said "as you can see it takes the basic...". You can see it starting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYQVyokbep0&t=117 Not so effective..
Ahh now i see what you were talking about.
So sometimes you have to click twice on the tab in the browser its very rare and its being fixed in next update.
I did the video really fast and just didn't catch it but thanks for the heads up. I assure you it works as advertised :)