We have had this application for a long time. It is called a text editor or a word processor.
Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy
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#162Bear notes is free if you don't sync your devices and it supports markdown well. Very clean app.
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#163There are so many note taking apps and yet I still can't find one I like. My requirements are simple: - Markdown - cross platform with sync - tags I have settled on SimpleNote for now, but I'm not completely happy. It's mac app is low quality and doesn't have markdown, It's open source but they ignore most of the issues. Bear Notes looks cool but wasn't cross platform. I am still looking. If this thing had phone apps…
Why not use a text editor w/ markdown syntax highlighting + some sort of syncing tool? Eg. vim + dropbox
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#164I tend to use Workflowy.com for anything hierarchical/simple/listy and then Trello for anything bigger.
For instance, recently did some CTO interview screenings via phone. It was really easy to set up a Trello board with a card per candidate, drop them in the list matching their current position in the pipeline, attach a resume, recruiter notes, due dates etc. The interview itself I threw as a bulleted list into Workflowy and just crossed things off as they were covered. Took notes in notepad and uploaded to the Trello board at the end. Invited stake holders to view the board and sent out a daily email with progress. Interviewed 8 candidates this way in a total of about 10 hours, including all the time spent prepping and scoring and communicating with the hiring team.
Re: Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy
#165Apart from having sync capability (via Dropbox) this in almost no way shape or form replicates the current capabilities of Evernote. A more accurate title would be "Laverna: An open source note-taking application." This of course will not generate many clicks, since there are dozens of things like this, many of them better-looking and more mature.
What's on your shortlist of "more mature [with same or more functionality]" ones?
Simplenote would be the canonical example.
BoostNote, which I think was an earlier HN item.
QOwnNotes, if you like ownCloud.
Turtl, if you like eliding the silent 'e'
Honorable Mention Notational Velocity (Mac-only)
I moved to Quiver from Evernote, also Mac-only. The solo dev moved to Berlin a little over a year ago, and I would describe the app as minimally supported at this point.
I've been at this a long time, and have run the gamut from Evernote to tagged text files managed in Emacs with some custom macros, long before org-mode was even a gleam in the eye of Carsten Dominik. So I've seen them all, and as noted by many other folks, the rules boil down to one - must have a portable base storage format (preferably Plain Old Text) and/or solid import and export to some such portable storage format.
If it's commercial software, pricing will get stupid and/or bug-ridden features that add bloat and that I don't want are added to justify said pricing; the product/company is sold to someone who will do the above; the product/company dies. If it's open source, more or less the same, with the additional stage of becoming closed/proprietary/commercial, which then reduces to the first case. I kind of assume at this point that I will be moving to a different platform every 4 years or so.
Re: Laverna – A Markdown note-taking app focused on privacy
#166Apart from having sync capability (via Dropbox) this in almost no way shape or form replicates the current capabilities of Evernote. A more accurate title would be "Laverna: An open source note-taking application." This of course will not generate many clicks, since there are dozens of things like this, many of them better-looking and more mature.
Just noted the title change, thumbs-up on responding to feedback, one of the great things about HN.
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#168We have had this application for a long time. It is called a text editor or a word processor.
Creating notes is not the problem people are trying to solve.
They're trying to make managing them easier.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
(I have a customization built on top of that.. instead of specifying the line numbers, I can specify the start and end regexp for the lines containing my snippet). This is awesome. Is this available anywhere? I'd like to use it.
Sure, here it is: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/.emacs.d/blob/master/elisp/or...
Thank you! I had been meaning to write something like this for myself. It's more useful than line numbers, which typically change often.
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#170Download no thanks