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Show HN: Mochi – Make notes with markdown, study them with spaced repetition

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Re: Show HN: Mochi – Make notes with markdown, study them with spaced repetition

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does support exporting in the form of .mochi files, which is basically just a zip file containing media from the deck and a plain text EDN for describing the data, which could be easily converted to JSON or CSV or whatever. The browser version persists to local storage, but the desktop app persists to a flat file that is backed up every time the app launches.

Given the use of EDN, I take it Clojure(Script) is part of your tech stack?

Yep, ClojureScript.

Re: Show HN: Mochi – Make notes with markdown, study them with spaced repetition

#22
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great, thanks for the transparency. When you say that the flat file is backed up, what do you mean by that?

It's a bit complicated, but changes in the app are stored separately, and then applied to the stored db on app start-up. So the previous stored db is backed up before the new changes are applied. Hope that answers your question.

My primary concern is about data recoverability, which it appears there isn't currently a solution for. Looks great though, just wanted to try to understand.

Re: Show HN: Mochi – Make notes with markdown, study them with spaced repetition

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post #23

Holy lord, this is awesome. One thing - will this eventually shift to a paid service or are you hosting it for free forever? I wouldn't mind paying for a slightly more polished version of this in-browser.

Thanks! I'm mulling over a web app version with cloud syncing for a small monthly fee. If you've got any suggestions, feel free to reach out: matt at mochi.cards

Re: Show HN: Mochi – Make notes with markdown, study them with spaced repetition

#25
post #15

Is there anything like that but with stuff you DON'T write? I mean you write what you want to remember, but not the contents. Then you get email reminders every once in a while and you must try to remember at that time, without looking.

Hmm not sure I understand what you're describing. I think I may have seen something like that posted here on HN though.
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