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Simplenote is no longer in active development

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Re: Simplenote is no longer in active development

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Post by zingerlio »

Wow thanks for posting this, this was how I found out about it being on life support. I've been using it since ages ago and have no complaints. It's lightweight, fast, accessible anywhere, no frills and functional. It's the notepad.exe on web for me.

None of the current line up of alternatives are lightweight enough, it seems.

Re: Simplenote is no longer in active development

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Post by eviks »

bryanhogan wrote: post #24
eviks wrote: post #12

What a coincidence, was just looking for a replacement of Simplenote! With hundreds of note taking apps coming and going, is there any single performant cross-platform non-Electron app with great conflict resolution for simple notes? Just to be more useful than an overpowered code editor + a file cloud? Checked just 2 of these conditions here (native Windows and macOS and some iOS startup benchmarks) and there is lit…

Obsidian is great and highly performant, even though it's using Electron. Electron is a huge advantage, faster development and the option to customise it easily with plugins.

It's not highly performant, its startup time is a multiple of that of native apps. Nothing is easy about plugins, APIs you expose/maintain define that, not Electron, and those can be good/bad in any system. Electron gives easier access to UI styling, but then again, real "easily" comes from the structure/stability of your UI, otherwise your plugins would break all the time. Also, same as with APIs - e.g, Joplin is Electron, but you can only style on a desktop. Then, of course, there are plenty of Electron apps that you can't style at all and that don't support plugins.

I'm happy for devs' "faster development", but as a user I care about "faster use", which Electron blocks outright

Re: Simplenote is no longer in active development

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Post by throawayonthe »

skrebbel wrote: post #21
ryukoposting wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The illustrations on the home page are some of the most hideous slop I've ever seen. Terrible first impression, and it really doesn't inspire trust in the quality of security of the service. Eventually companies will learn. But for now, eww.

Wow, I thought you were exaggerating / being the usual AI hater, so I opened the page expecting a some product screenshots with a few too many em dashes or something like that, fully intending to tell you to calm down. But dammmn it's bad! You weren't exaggerating at all!

oh damn what i swear i remember their site being perfectly normal in the past, what happened

Re: Simplenote is no longer in active development

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Post by haddr »

That's sad! Simplenote is a really useful and quick note taking app that's minimal but not missing anything for this kind of app. It's like notational velocity but done in a clean way, and synchronizing across devices. For me it was really enough for many years.

PS. And there is this surprise when you discover that all notes are versioned.

Re: Simplenote is no longer in active development

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Post by spudlyo »

GNU Emacs, which has been in active development for over 40 years, has a thriving note taking ecosystem based on Org-mode, a plaintext system for notes, documents, computational notebooks, literate programming, maintaining to-do lists, planning projects, and lots more. Ask your doctor if GNU Emacs is right for you.

Side effects may include: excessive online evangelism, endless configuration tinkering, pain and numbness in the pinkies, and smugness.

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