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

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Post by e12e »

ThomPete wrote: post #85
e12e wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 thin…

I'm sorry if I'm a bit dense, but I'm not sure what you mean by "it" above. Do you mean resource forks?

And how does that work if the email/filesync stops by a Linux/Windows machine or two on the way? Is there a "bundled" file-format that would allow something like a PSD to survive an email round-trip between eg. a designer running OS X, and a developer running Linux (err... in the case of a PSD, maybe windows -- even if Gimp's handling of PSDs are much better than it used to be :-)?

Thankfully it's been a while since I had to deal with "mac"[1] files so I'm not updated on the current state of affairs.

[1] Actually problems I've had had little to do with Apple per-se, more Adobe's lol-lets-throw-this-undocmented-binary-serialized-stuff-in-a-box-and-call-it-a-day hobby fileformat PSD -- that they apparently don't even understand how works themselves -- leading to some hair-pulling when going mac-windows-linux-mac etc.

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

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Post by ThomPete »

navanit wrote: post #158
ThomPete wrote: post #53

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Hi bryan and thank you very much for your kind words. To answer your quesitons. - not for now - not really they are archived objects Now this will change in future updates so if you are on the fence just sign up for the newsletter to be notified. Alternatively buy the app and send us a mail then we can add you to the beta-tester list so you get access to some of these things as soon as they are deployed for the betal…

> - not really they are archived objects This is a deal-breaker for me. I don't want to risk putting years of effort into this and then have the app break when Apple decides to deprecate APIs in their next OS release. Having said that, you should be charging much more.

I understand but keep in mind that the idea behind ghostnote is not to store your precious quotes but more something like temporarily important notes.

Having said that however we will be making it possible to export/backup the notes into something like evernote or other much more accessible format.

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

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Post by mateuszf »

amelius wrote: post #118
saralily wrote: post #95

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From the video it looks like you can have a note specific to a terminal window open to vim.

But how do you specify at what level the note should bind? Sometimes, you'd want it at the file-level, sometimes at the vim-level, and sometimes at the terminal-level, I suppose.

One solution would be to have a hierarchy of contexts displayed in the note app. (Like breadcrumbs in file explorer). User could switch between context levels manually.

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

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Post by mateuszf »

hrktb wrote: post #135
emehrkay wrote: post #123

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> moving a file breaks its relationship with a note How does OS X handle moving files while they're open/in use? One of the first things I stumbled upon when I started using the OS is that it was possible, while Windows would throw an error.

In OSX/linux/unix the application uses the inode (a system level file id basically), which is independent of the path where the file is stored. This allows to move a file around, even trash, while applications can keep referring to it. This can be weird (if you delete a file in use, it won't be effectively deleted from disk until every application accessing it stop doing so)

> This can be weird (if you delete a file in use, it won't be effectively deleted from disk until every application accessing it stop doing so)

That explains why I can easily remove a running process on Linux, but it doesn't work on Windows.

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

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Post by jonathantm »

Another fucking application that doesn't specify that it's only for osx. Fucking apple users man. What about Windows & Linux? Can I get this for those? I don't know... because it doesn't fucking say. What... what are those? you ask? They're operating systems you don't need a fucking $1000 piece of hardware to run. Fucking apple users man.

Ok... I know, I know - swearing bad. But I'm a little sick of having to infer the most important piece of information about software by looking at the fucking screenshots.

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

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Post by mateuszf »

ThomPete wrote: post #133
michaelwilson wrote: post #119

It's great so far. But...I, out of curiosity, flipped on the "Ghost Mode" switch. Now, clicking on the ghost doesn't do anything. What is Ghost Mode? How do I get out of it?

It's one of those "seems like such a good idea" things we probably just should have dropped until we had a better solution. The idea is that the ghostnote app visually stays out of the way by going semi-transparent when your mouse isn't over it. So I am guess it's just so low on transparency that you can't see it :) Got to Preferences and turn it off then you should be able to see the window. But yeah not the most us…

Maybe change 100% invisibility to about 20%. That should make it barely visible, but less confusing. It would show underneath content so it would still be useful.

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

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Post by potatosareok »

jonathantm wrote: post #167

Another fucking application that doesn't specify that it's only for osx. Fucking apple users man. What about Windows & Linux? Can I get this for those? I don't know... because it doesn't fucking say. What... what are those? you ask? They're operating systems you don't need a fucking $1000 piece of hardware to run. Fucking apple users man. Ok... I know, I know - swearing bad. But I'm a little sick of having to infer t…

Hi,

It says available on mac store at the very top. The buy link redirects to the mac store. If those aren't clue enough, I doubt anything but 72point font size might get through to you.

Who is this rant aimed at anyway? The developer? S/he's perfectly within rights to make it for whatever platform they want.

Mac users in general? I think you could take some of your own advice from 23 days ago, "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story."

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

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Post by aareet »

ThomPete wrote: post #100
aareet wrote: post #81

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?

Hey thanks. 1. Not yet but coming up 2. Stored on disk for now but will change later.

Thanks for the response - actually I'd personally prefer the stored-on-disk option :)

Just as a follow-up - would I get my contextual notes back if I'm backing up my disk to Time Capsule and have to restore from it?

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