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Re: Simplenote is no longer in active development

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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

After Proton acquisition, prices became exorbitant and aesthetics hideous I guess.

Re: Simplenote is no longer in active development

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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

I should also add that Proton also has become somewhat tacky aesthetically over the years. Their old Alpine, sober aesthetic was really great.

Re: Simplenote is no longer in active development

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I used to love nvALT. Want to check out https://hashy.ink . It's an open source markdown editor inspired by nvALT. Still rough around the edges, but it's coming together.

Lost me in the first sentence with the AI chat.

It's optional btw, it's bring your own key. I'm debating taking it out too as I find if I wanna use AI with it, I usually just open claude code in the folder in the terminal..

Re: Simplenote is no longer in active development

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Considering they only shipped about every two years—I'm not kidding—so long as they keep the lights on, that's good enough for me. (I'll still look for a replacement, but I won't feel super rushed to switch away.)

Exactly. Let's see if it chugs along in 2026.

Re: Simplenote is no longer in active development

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I still lament the loss of nvALT. The GOAT.

You can just use neovim with fzf and that pretty much replicates nvALT.

I am familiar with nvim and fzf but not nvALT. Could you give me a brief explanation of the workflow here? Is fzf just used to jump between separate note files or what? Personally I have a general notes.txt as well as more specific ones like what I order at a specific restaurant or what I'm working on in a game. I don't use fzf with nvim, moreso with shell scripts.

Re: Simplenote is no longer in active development

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You can just use neovim with fzf and that pretty much replicates nvALT.

I am familiar with nvim and fzf but not nvALT. Could you give me a brief explanation of the workflow here? Is fzf just used to jump between separate note files or what? Personally I have a general notes.txt as well as more specific ones like what I order at a specific restaurant or what I'm working on in a game. I don't use fzf with nvim, moreso with shell scripts.

nvALT is a mac app (developed by brett terpestra) that would store notes in a directory (txt files) and you would type in a few words to search/find the file you wanted to edit, and if the search string didn’t exist, hit enter to create a new one (or cmd+N)

it was rather simple, and is reminisce of using fzf with telescope (fg for file grep, or ff for file search by filename). type in a few letters, select your match and hit enter to edit.

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