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Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

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This looks really awesome, will test it out. I like that they let you download the trial. Don't like you have to go into the Apple Store to buy the app. There is an app called Dash[1] that has a lot of source code and api documentation stored offline and searchable. It also boasts that you can put your own code snippets in it. So I really wanted to use Dash to keep all my code snippets in, as well as the documentatio…

Dash is iOS/OS X only however there is the excellent Zeal* that uses the same Dash docsets.

https://zealdocs.org/

Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

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You either make it look beautiful in one place, or make it look like ass in three places. Or, option C: You use Electron, like Slack.

Another option - you can do everything in a terminal. Not everyone finds minimalism beautiful, but - if you do.

It's still going to be a bit of a problem, as you have the Unix terminals (bash, zsh, fish, among others), and then you have the Windows terminals (cmd.exe and PowerShell).

Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

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Nobody owes you anything. You want something google it, or build it yourself. Don't you dare belittle a developer for only targeting one platform.

Try reading my responses first. You completely missed my point.

I did read your responses. You're adding nothing to the conversation, other than complaining just to complain.

Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

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The more I read about different applications, the more I think you can't understand them unless you look at the underlying data format. Here's Quiver's: https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki/Quiver-Data-Format It's . . . really good. Like, _really_ good. I particularly like that they keep the metadata and the content of the note separate. This is the same thing Camlistore does, and it's nice for version control b…

> Leaving version control up to the user isn't the worst, but it does mean that it won't be straightforward to put an "undo" in the GUI (if the GUI already has undo somehow I'd like to hear how they do it).

The GUI does have an Undo, and it works exactly as you expect: it reverts changes made in the GUI app. If you have a note open and you make an external change, the app will at some point notice the change and ask you if you want to reload; if you say yes, it reloads from disk and throws away the undo history. I was able to get it to reload content without realizing it changed (by editing the note, then closing it in Quiver before it detected the change and reopening) and this didn't throw away the undo history, which seems like just a fairly simple bug.

Or to put it more generally, Undo works in Quiver pretty much the same way you'd expect it to work in any editor that can reload files that change on disk; the undo history simply doesn't concern itself with undoing changes made outside of the app, and in most cases reloading the file from disk throws away undo history.

Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

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Small flaw though. It only runs on OS-X. I might give it a shot if they decide to support linux. Note: I was being sarcastic when I said small.

I use Zim on Linux. When I saw the Quiver screenshots I thought "hey, this is very similar to Zim!"

Can you compare this to org-mode? Any advantages / disadvantages?

Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

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Lookout, here come the down votes! Your comment wasn't full of praise or cheerful enough or generally not acceptable according to a consensus of HN users with down voting privileges. By the way, I'm at -1 karma for the same bullshit reasons...

Please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News—especially about downvotes, the gold standard of unsubstantiveness. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11013113 and marked it off-topic.

Some people do like my style of comments. I think it's only the people like you, with their nose in the air and a sense of duty to protect the "boys club," that don't like them. Don't talk about HN? Fuck HN and fuck you too!

Re: Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X

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If there is an iOS version I'll jump from NVAlt/SimpleNote to this plus dropbox and write a migrator

I would love to migrate away from NVAlt, really hoping that Quiver is the answer. NVAlt is great, but the combo of no tags + no iOS version has been a thorn in my side for years.

If you sync to simplenote you can use the simplenote iOS app which I've had good luck with. I'd rather use dropbox as my syncing layer though...
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