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Yet Another Review/Rate My Startup Request

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Re: Yet Another Review/Rate My Startup Request

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rickd wrote: post #15

I like it a lot, nice job. Definitely reminds me of TiddlyWiki. My main criticism is that there should be an explicit "save" button or link for notes. Perhaps it could be similar to the gmail "save draft" button, in that autosaves would disable or "gray out" the save button (nothing more to save). I think not having a specific Save button will confuse "average" users who have been trained to "Save Often!" Other than…

> My main criticism is that there should be an explicit "save" button or link for notes.

Done. :)

Re: Yet Another Review/Rate My Startup Request

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tx wrote: post #33
witten wrote: post #2

I've been working on this product (with some unrelated consulting on the side) for nearly a year. Just to head off some obvious comments, here are a few things to keep in mind: Web browser support for the web-based product itself is fairly restricted. So no Safari, and no Opera. Yet. I realize the product is a little general-purpose, and that makes a unique selling proposition more difficult to craft. I also realize…

I've been looking for something like this for a while: currently I use Tomboy on Linux but the UI is too basic. I love your attention to detail: Ctrl+B makes my selection bold - fantastic. Are you going to open the code? I'm sure you've used tons of other people's work: come on, contribute some back! I'd love to run it on my laptop: since the software is truly personal, without any sharing/collaboration benefits, why…

Update: There's now a downloadable/desktop version of Luminotes for both Linux and Windows.
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