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Re: StackNotes

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Post by stacknotes »

quanticle wrote: post #9

My question is what assurance do I have that I'll be able to pull my notes out if/when StackNotes goes under or gets acquired? I've been burned a few times by services provided by startups (or not even startups, like Google Reader) going under, and I've learned to be careful of what I trust to a third party service. More specifically, my question is why I should use StackNotes instead of an emacs org-mode file stored…

Good and very fair question. Firstly, I don't understand why a company would not allow you to pull your data out before closing/be acquired but rest assured if that ever happens to stacknotes (i don't plan on it), I will provide a way to pull your notes out. If enough users wanted it, I might even provide a way to 'backup' or download your notes collection at will. Secondly, i can't answer that question as I haven't really used emacs org-mode (didn't know about it until then) but my main reason would be because of the features which we plan to implement (note sharing, voting etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/32bjsx/a_...) which I feel will be make us a great alternative.

Again thanks for your message! If you have any other questions don't hesitate to ask!

Re: StackNotes

#12

Post by stacknotes »

hanlec wrote: post #10

Are there some sort of plugins that link the source with the notes? If there's no direct link between these, how do you remember you made some notes on a particular snippet?

Just to clarify, are you asking if there is a way to search through the sources attached to notes?

Re: StackNotes

#13

Post by simon83 »

Looks good! I have a suggestion and a question:

Suggestion: Make the description field for notes optional. I think in most cases the title should be pretty much self explanatory (for me at least)

Question: Is there any kind of server-side encryption? Just to keep eventually sensitive notes secret in case of a server breach? Better yet, some kind of client-side encryption would be good on a folder level. Everything should then get encrypted/decrypted on client side (yes I got really paranoid during the last months, and I'm not putting anything that is even remotely sensitive on any server that I have no control of.)

I guess some people might use this to document their server/network infrastructure, and (god beware) they might even put sensitive passwords there. Maybe you could sell then this kind of encryption as a "pro" feature ;)

Re: StackNotes

#14

Post by raziel2p »

This looks nice.

The "Relevant to" dropdown should be sorted alphabetically, and in my opinion, default to "General".

I also don't see why description shouldn't be allowed to be left blank.

I added a tag to a note, but if I search for that tag, there are no results.

I think "favourite notes" and "favourite folders" should be given higher priority than the rather meaningless statistics on the dashboard.

Re: StackNotes

#15

Post by zamalek »

Looks awesome! A few suggestions:

1. Preview markdown result (get inspiration from GitHub).

2. Where do I add more "relevant to"? The ones you have are grossly inadequate. Possibly just make that a text field.

3. Use a code editor for the markdown editor, or even just change the font to monospace for now.

Re: StackNotes

#16

Post by atmosx »

Yesterday I thought about this... I picking up Rails using the 'Agile rails 4' book (by DHH). I have done many Sinatra applications using the MVC model so I'm quite familiar with most concepts, all I have to do is memorise and get a better grasp of Rails structure and rails approach to problem-solving.

So I used a hack to create an easy 'note' solution adding this to my .zshrc:

n() { # $EDITOR ~/.mynotes/"$".md open ~/.mynotes/"$".md }

nls() { ls -c ~/.mynotes/ | grep "$*" }

Then I just "mkdir ~/.mynotes". I keep mostly 'rake' and 'rails' commands and a short explanation in 'md' format. It works like a charm because most of the times, I just open the note and leave it open using MacDown (an MD editor with preview mode) + it can be synced via Dropbox and you could even add encryption if you wanted too. But I'm not sure it would work for teams, while StackNotes apparently seems to me extremely well suited for teams.

Good luck with everything!

Re: StackNotes

#17

Post by V-2 »

It's a pity that I can't add, bookmark, my own "learning resources" (eg. some tutorials that I found).

Re: StackNotes

#18

Post by colinramsay »

stacknotes wrote: post #6

Hey guys, site owner here like to thank the op for sharing this, was wondering why my sign ups doubled. If you guys have any questions don't hesitate to ask!

Typo just under the first screenshot on the homepage: devlopers -> developers :)

Re: StackNotes

#20

Post by V-2 »

Overall it's quite nice, but so rudimentary that in its current form, I can see no advantage whatsoever over some general-purpose, well established alternative such as Evernote.

If it's primarily targetted for (learning) developers, it'd better have some specialized, dedicated features - eg. easy management of code excerpts, with syntax highlighting etc.

Regarding the UX, I also can't grasp why the dashboard seems to fetishize statistics so much. "Average Daily Notes", "Notes Breakdown" (and the pie chart), why on Earth would I care?

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