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Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts

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Re: Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts

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Post by jatins »

sgarman wrote: post #16
jatins wrote: post #4

I used Reflect when this was in Beta and free and liked the experience. However most of what you get from this, you can get from Obsidian as well. Despite that Obsidian never stuck for me while Reflect kinda did. These days I am back to Bear since it's free, native, fast and editing experience is top notch and I never found much use of bidirectional links. It really has to be some kind of behavioural trait that makes…

I've been using Roam but seems like development is stalled. I'm mostly happy with it as is but I see a lot more people talking about Obsidian, wonder what I'm missing.

Roam was slow as hell when I tried it. And there have been reports of terrible behaviour from their founder that I don't want to condone, so don't use it in principle.

Re: Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts

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Post by grantc »

crowbahr wrote: post #24
r2b2 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also felt this way (jumping from tool to tool) until I found Obsidian, which is just sugar on top of markdown files and normal folders: https://obsidian.md

Another vote for Obsidian. I pay for the app even though I don't have to. Great piece of tech. I really like using it.

Same. Although paying for Sync makes mobile workable. But the combo of the base too, available plugins, and a large, active community combine to be among the best of the various capture tools out there.

Re: Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts

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Post by Buttons840 »

imwithstoopid wrote: post #18
gabipurcaru wrote: post #9

Nice. I'd be super interested in deeper AI integrations for note taking apps, to help you reach certain goals, e.g.: - calorie counting or diets: just write down what you ate, and it should be good enough to compute calories, macros etc. - gym logging: write down when you went to the gym and what you did, and it should give you tips, help you maintain your routine and other helpful things

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Nothing is "fattening", because you can lose fat while eating any one thing. You can lose weight while only eating lasagna, thus, it is not necessarily fattening. But in general I agree, saying "I ate lasagna" could be 400 calories, or it could be 2400 calories.

However, a calorie estimating AI could be useful if it indicates a level of uncertainty. You list "lasagna", and the AI estimates it's 1200 calories, plus or minus 1000, or something like that. Maybe this level of accuracy is good enough for some people, and it makes tracking and losing weight easy. Or maybe you're not losing weight, and so you realize you have to be more specific, listing the food weights and individual ingredients, etc.

Re: Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts

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Post by slickdork »

maccaw wrote: post #6

Woah, cool to see Reflect on HN. I started Reflect a few years ago. We're building it as a lifestyle company. There's only four of us. We bootstrapped for a while, and then did a $1m crowdfund. Now our goal is to get to profitability, and we're half-way there. Product wise, our goal is to make something beautiful, fast, secure - that just works out the box. We're end-to-encrypted, which I think this crowd will apprec…

Your product claims to be end to end encrypted. Since it is closed source, do you plan on providing any proof via a third-party security audit?

Re: Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts

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Post by grantc »

gbro3n wrote: post #21

I've been really happy with Logseq. It has a similar interface to Reflect by the looks of it, but it saves to the local file system in plain text (markdown-ish) format. They have sync now, but roll your own sync via git is also very feasible. Obsidian is similar but I like the 'outliner' 'Roam like' apps that can infer relationships via blocks and indentation.

Logseq is well done. I ended up using it for about a month but then went to Obsidian -- I ended up realizing I like to use outliner mode for certain types of notes, but found Obsidian to be better for straight writing. There's an outliner plugin for Obsidian that gets you close-ish to Logseq and other outlners, but I ended up detuning its settings to just make bulleted lists better. Totally recommend checking out Logseq though, it's good software.

Re: Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts

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Post by goosinmouse »

Buttons840 wrote: post #33
imwithstoopid wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Nothing is "fattening", because you can lose fat while eating any one thing. You can lose weight while only eating lasagna, thus, it is not necessarily fattening. But in general I agree, saying "I ate lasagna" could be 400 calories, or it could be 2400 calories. However, a calorie estimating AI could be useful if it indicates a level of uncertainty. You list "lasagna", and the AI estimates it's 1200 calories, plus or…

in my opinion that is adding AI for the sake of AI. If you're making homemade lasagna it takes a minute to add the ingredients you used to get a very accurate calorie count. There's really no way AI can do it better and more accurate.

Re: Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts

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Post by stathibus »

artursapek wrote: post #36

what inspires people to build software like this? there are so many good solutions already and the problem with "getting organized" is usually a lack of motivation, not a lack of available tools.

It usually starts with "I want to build some software" instead of "I want to solve a problem."
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