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Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by djhworld »

mosselman wrote: post #42

I will try to explain why I don't want to pay for note taking apps. Just an insight, I am probably wrong. Why ramble on like this? Maybe there is someone who can point me to a nice app that I can use. The problem with most these apps is that I can't just point at a directory where the app should organise my files. I am not looking for something that saves my files to some strange (proprietary) format in an invisible…

The Quiver format is very simple

https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki/Quiver-Data-Format

Just some files organised in directories from a root you have stored on disk, with a simple JSON structure to describe a document.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by w0rd-driven »

izacus wrote: post #10

Since Quiver is only usable on Apple platforms, I've instead started using Boostnote. It doesn't quite have the same featureset, but it's still a great way of collecting formatted notes and storing them on Dropbox/GDrive.

I came here to say just this. Boostnote isn't 1:1 from what I can tell at a cursory glance of Quiver's features but I've enjoyed its progression even if I barely use it. I've had a rudimentary workflow of just text files in TextWrangler that should honestly get dumped into boost but I'm too lazy to even save the documents most of the time (80-90% of it is temporary ideas) much less properly categorize them.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by alunchbox »

mavus wrote: post #52

I've only recently started using it but if you're looking for something similar but cross platform and open source I recommend: https://boostnote.io All the core features you would needs from a notes app for developers. It even has iOS/Android apps.

Did a quick google search to see if there was anything similar to Quiver that is open source and you beat me to it on posting it :D. How's the experience been using boostnote?

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by amanzi »

Nobody has mentioned Wiki.JS yet, so thought I'd share this: https://wiki.js.org/. I've just started using it and am pretty happy with it so far. It reads markdown files from a git repository every 5 minutes and only adds two comments to the top of each file for navigation purposes. You can edit files in the editor of your choice and just git push it back to the origin master, and then Wiki.JS will pick it up within 5 minutes. Or you can edit files directly in the browser through the Wiki.JS interface - and this has full access control mechanisms in place to secure content. Very cool.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by inopinatus »

altharaz wrote: post #16

I use Quiver every day. I really like the way I can organize my notes and projects. However the main issue I have with this software is the absence of synchronisation between devices: I can’t browse on my iPhone what I wrote on my Mac.

I have the Quiver app loading my library from Dropbox and therefore have just read on my iPhone what I wrote on my Mac.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by I_complete_me »

roadbeats wrote: post #25

Having a personal notebook is a game changer. If you don't have yet, I highly recommend, tool is not that important... I just use Emacs and Markdown. It's like my permanent memory, and it's public: https://github.com/azer/notebook I even got a pull request once about a note on parenting :) Specifically about coding, the best thing is, I can quickly open a note within my editor. For example, I forget some rules about…

>For example, I forget some rules about Bash all the time. Instead of Googling the same thing over and over, I open the bash programming notes with a few key presses, check the rule, close the note.

I use cheat as in pip install cheat which works in Bash itself. Lots of popular cheats and you can add your own.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by crispinb »

davidcollantes wrote: post #48
djhworld wrote: post #29

I use Quiver for everything. However it does have its limits (Mac Only) and development has stalled. I've tried things like emacs with org-mode in the past but it just didn't click for me. I like the simplicity of the Quiver format, just JSON blobs with markdown in them. For me a notebooking tool needs to have vim keybindings, tagging, searching, inline image support, syntax highlighting and preferably portability. T…

"Updated: Dec 19, 2017" Stalled? Everything has limits, which are the ones you found? I am not related to the app, nor a user. I am simply curious.

The Dec update was a couple of minor bugfixes. It had been a long time since the previous update, and there haven’t been new features for ages. It is quite featureful, so this isn’t egregious, but it is indicative of an app that you’d have to say is, at best, in caretaker mode now. There are a ton of unaddressed bugs at https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/issues.

Also the iOS version had been in beta for a long time, and was eventually released in attenuated form (a free read-only notes viewer).

I’m not writing this to bag the app at all. It’s still my primary note-taking app. But on present evidence I don’t think anyone would say it has a great future.

Quiver got a lot right, at least for me, and hit a kind of sweet spot between the overwhelming closed-platform-centricity of Evernote, and the minimalistic text-oriented note apps. And it was for the most part nicely implemented - performant, very mac-idiomatic, and with lots of nice usability touches. I still have ambitions to build apps based on its notebook files, just because I want to continue using it for my notes now, but suspect the app itself has a limited lifespan.

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