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If you're going to start lobbing moral accusations on the worthlessness of work that doesn't have any direct moral implications, you have a lot of posts on HN to go through. ;)
Vesper app
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure a lot of Bill Gates' projects might seem equally meaningless, but he's still on track to completely wipe out Polio and has donated $28 billion to charity. Besides that, not all of us are qualified to tackle those sorts of problems, or are even interested in them.
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Maybe someone who works in disease prevention will use this application for taking notes.
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#23What about a web version of this? If you want to write more than 100 words the iPhone becomes something really annoying. I hope they release, at least, this option some day.
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#24The MacStories Review [1] has a gif that shows how the app transitions from screen to screen. To me, that's the most interesting part of the app because it introduces a new UI/UX that feels faster and seems unique. Who knows if this will catch on, but it could be something not unlike pull-to-refresh, the hamburger button, or the basement metaphor on iOS if people really like it.
So maybe it's just another note app that won't work for those of us already using a different solution. But the UI/UX design is pretty cool and potentially noteworthy.
[1]: http://www.macstories.net/reviews/vesper-review-collect-your...
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#25The MacStories Review [1] has a gif that shows how the app transitions from screen to screen. To me, that's the most interesting part of the app because it introduces a new UI/UX that feels faster and seems unique. Who knows if this will catch on, but it could be something not unlike pull-to-refresh, the hamburger button, or the basement metaphor on iOS if people really like it. So maybe it's just another note app th…
Gif direct link: http://90a2cc4b7deb50ba0492-5793e9161196cd023f2e1f1322f2910e...
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#26( please note that my post is meant to give others another use-case for the Vesper app, and isn't an ad for a competitor product! ) I don't care much for a diary or travel book, but I do use DayOne[1] (for OS X and iOS) as a journal of interesting stuff I find (mostly on HN). Years ago I used delicious to save/tag webpages, after its stagnation I used other services (I don't even remember their names), then started t…
I uninstalled Day One when it fired off an alarm at 3am reminding me to write in my diary. An honest mistake on their part, but still very annoying.
I hate that too - It can be turned off in the Preferences though.
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If you're going to start lobbing moral accusations on the worthlessness of work that doesn't have any direct moral implications, you have a lot of posts on HN to go through. ;)
I know the original comment was deleted but I wanted to comment on this anyway since I spent the last school year teaching in a low-income high school.
First off, don't assume that the two are mutually exclusive. One of the things you learn as an educator in a tough environment is that you need hobbies as an outlet to survive and not become depressed. If you do start to go down that rabbit hole of depression you can have a poor outlook on your and your student's ability to succeed and that is not what an ideal educator needs in order to be successful in the classroom.
Second, I could have used this app over the last year to make me a better teacher. The ability to capture thoughts with words and pictures like this app provides would have been phenomenal for my organization and let me be more effective. I tried other apps and they would not have been as useful as this one would have been so don't discount it because the time was spent working on it instead of other problems that you feel are more deserving of attention.
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#28I thought about making an app like this for a long time. Kind of like indexing your thoughts. However, I feel like evernote may have taken the space in a way that wouldn't allow any competing apps to scale.
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#29( please note that my post is meant to give others another use-case for the Vesper app, and isn't an ad for a competitor product! ) I don't care much for a diary or travel book, but I do use DayOne[1] (for OS X and iOS) as a journal of interesting stuff I find (mostly on HN). Years ago I used delicious to save/tag webpages, after its stagnation I used other services (I don't even remember their names), then started t…
Looks like they have punted on encryption for over a year, which seems like a very weird and careless thing to do:
1. http://dayoneapp.com/support/passwords/
2. http://iphone.appstorm.net/reviews/lifestyle/day-one-a-gorge...
3. http://web.archive.org/web/20120902234719/http://dayoneapp.c...
The app looks really interesting, though, and I would probably have used it otherwise. Maybe now's a great time to address encryption with the focus on the Vesper app.
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#30The MacStories Review [1] has a gif that shows how the app transitions from screen to screen. To me, that's the most interesting part of the app because it introduces a new UI/UX that feels faster and seems unique. Who knows if this will catch on, but it could be something not unlike pull-to-refresh, the hamburger button, or the basement metaphor on iOS if people really like it. So maybe it's just another note app th…
It's new - but I'm not decided whether it is better. It feels like the loss of the 'metaphor' of a physical page/tile takes away something... but I'm not sure if that is just preference.