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

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Post by jasonlotito »

ThomPete wrote: post #26
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.

Sure, no worries. I took a video showing the issue, and I'll send it off to you.

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

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Post by diff_sky »

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.

I have the same issue. I also see a small cog icon in the menu bar whenever I do something like switch apps or chrome tabs. I guess it's an indicator of ghostnote activity, but its sometimes to the left of the ghostnote menu icon, sometimes right and sometimes a couple of app menu icons over...

Of more concern is that after installing I noticed moving finder windows around as sluggish and sometimes just the system cursor in general. If I quit the app, that goes away.

Those issue are making it unusable for me.

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

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Post by emehrkay »

telekid wrote: post #77

Apple 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…

> 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.

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

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Post by ThomPete »

visarga wrote: post #38

I would love to see a software like this that would help me take notes from Google Books and reference back the book and page number. Then it would be able to give me my notes sorted by time, tags or book.

We actually tried to get it to work with ibook and kindle but no dice :)

Google Books doesn't seem to have any url differentiator between different pages so it might be hard unless we find some other way to detect different page numbers.

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

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Post by ThomPete »

innguest wrote: post #115

Does it store the notes in a way that I can easily make a backup of all the file names and their notes? Or does it use undocumented xattr funny stuff that apps like Photoshop pay no mind to and promptly destroy?

for now just objects, next update you will be able to export to other formats and ex evernote.

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

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Post by mattbettinson »

diff_sky wrote: post #122
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.

I have the same issue. I also see a small cog icon in the menu bar whenever I do something like switch apps or chrome tabs. I guess it's an indicator of ghostnote activity, but its sometimes to the left of the ghostnote menu icon, sometimes right and sometimes a couple of app menu icons over... Of more concern is that after installing I noticed moving finder windows around as sluggish and sometimes just the system cu…

I also see this cog in the top whenever I click.

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

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Post by mrmondo »

ThomPete wrote: post #120
mrmondo wrote: post #109

That is really very nice - well done! Any thoughts on Evernote integration?

Yes in next update you can add custom applescripts that should allow for evernote integration.

Neat! Thanks and keep up the great work!

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

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Post by ThomPete »

diff_sky wrote: post #122
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.

I have the same issue. I also see a small cog icon in the menu bar whenever I do something like switch apps or chrome tabs. I guess it's an indicator of ghostnote activity, but its sometimes to the left of the ghostnote menu icon, sometimes right and sometimes a couple of app menu icons over... Of more concern is that after installing I noticed moving finder windows around as sluggish and sometimes just the system cu…

hi diff_sky

That does sound weird. Do you mind sending me a mail (info at ghostnoteapp dot com) so we can figure out whats going on.

We are working on the cog wheel issue we just haven't been able to reproduce the bug on our screens so any look at the beast would help.

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

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Post by anon012012 »

anon012012 wrote: post #59
ThomPete wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I thought it should be integrated in the OS, applications would set the context through the API. Software like this reads the context and manages the notes. That's to say I had a good impression, and I hope to see it on Windows one of these days.

Sorry to be slightly off topic but we could imagine the browser adapting to the context, too. There'd be a dropdown menu to select for example "Photoshop context", then it changes tabs according to the open project, and remembers them between sessions.
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