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Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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Re: Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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Post by keizo »

bobnamob wrote: post #11

I feel like this is trying to play off of https://grugbrain.dev/ Not sure if the riff lands though (same author?) Edit: “with HTMX (big fans and of grugbraindev -- no relation)” apparently unrelated.

kind of a play, but yep I'm just an htmx fan boy. I did web dev growing up -- but haven't exactly kept up past 10 years. htmx has filled that gap for me. Also, the grug thing was a meme before htmx. I thought it was dumb, but honestly fits in every way with what I want in a note app.

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Post by clnq »

lumb63 wrote: post #4

I love the spirit of this. Caveman-level simplicity is awesome! I think I am personally too Grug of an audience for Grug Notes, though; my current note taking scheme is vim on text files in a notes folder.

write on hand not bad. enough usually.

note always “on-hand” when need. hehe

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Post by keizo »

cfr2023 wrote: post #6

Interesting. This has a lot of features that appeal to me, automatically pulling certain data types with lists of backlinks seems great. The not local, not end-to-end encrypted parts are enough of a turn off that my wandering in the notes wilderness will continue. Good luck with your project though, I will be watching for further developments.

rad thanks. I wasn't planning any ai features, or datatypes -- but in toying with open ai it came about. I still need to add more inline methods to cast datatypes beyond people, companies, and locations. I'm working on attributes getting pulled out of notes too, so structured data is automatically created -- but not fully fleshed out yet. absolutely understand the need for local and encryption.

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Post by bitwize »

emsign wrote: post #24

That 4chan meme picture doesn't make it look very trustworthy to be honest. Especially because the site asks for my data right after that. I'm sure I'm not going to give someone who likes 4chan memes my data.

The idea for the grugjak image comes from the origin of the "grug" meme itself -- https://grugbrain.dev

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Post by keizo »

emsign wrote: post #24

That 4chan meme picture doesn't make it look very trustworthy to be honest. Especially because the site asks for my data right after that. I'm sure I'm not going to give someone who likes 4chan memes my data.

Yeah, that’s my one hesitation. But proceeding until I come up with something better or have time to polish. Trying to be brutally honest with wall of text on what it is and isn’t. My normal business has always tried to present as having it together. With this, putting up every update I make each night is kinda freeing.

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Post by ditsuke »

keizo wrote: post #18

maker here. well hot dam, not sure I'm ready for this. But happy to answer any questions if it stays online. Literally I'm the only daily active user right now. back story -- I was a happy roam research user, but i found it too slow for my iphone se. Been at home more with a one year old, so gotten back in to programming during naps.

Always excited to have more options in the PKM space. I have a couple questions — have you tried Obsidian.md? And what does grugnotes plan to use OpenAI for (besides as a development aid)
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