I haven't tried this out, but I can basically guarantee that Apple Notes is better.
Can you stop flamebaiting?
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#72I'd love something with more workflow centred around pruning and reorganizing notes. Often I'm just dumping lots of info into notes which end up not being so useful in the long-run since the signal-noise ratio is too low.
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#73I love the spirit of this. Caveman-level simplicity is awesome! I think I am personally too Grug of an audience for Grug Notes, though; my current note taking scheme is vim on text files in a notes folder.
write on hand not bad. enough usually. note always “on-hand” when need. hehe
Jokes aside, I’ve tried what feels like almost everything and outside of taking notes with Code this is what I’m doing. Writing it down in a notebook. Is it flawed? Yes. The time I need to learn the medium is zero however.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
write on hand not bad. enough usually. note always “on-hand” when need. hehe
Jokes aside, I’ve tried what feels like almost everything and outside of taking notes with Code this is what I’m doing. Writing it down in a notebook. Is it flawed? Yes. The time I need to learn the medium is zero however.
I also find (and have heard from others) that the act of writing things down helps you to remember them better (which somewhat obsoletes the note). It also, in my experience, forces your brain to think about them more because it has to externalize them through the slow medium of your hand. It results in surprising new thoughts being generated.
Some people I know follow the system of, if they want to remember it, they write it down. If they don’t want to have to, they type it up.
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#75[flagged]
I shared it for completely different reasons than you listed, but you do not seem like someone who would be worth talking to, so yeah, "whatever".
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#76I just really appreciate the candid GTD attitude you guys have.
Having just spent 2 weeks migrating from Notion to Obsidian, investing dozens of hours obsessing over various features that save me While I’m not a prospective user (my workflows now require local storage and I’m too pot committed to return to the harmonious simplicity) I’d be keen to play with Grug, break some stuff, and maybe send you referrals when you’re ready.
Any plans to integrate something like Whisper for dictation/transcription?
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#77That 4chan meme picture doesn't make it look very trustworthy to be honest. Especially because the site asks for my data right after that. I'm sure I'm not going to give someone who likes 4chan memes my data.
I think it's a good brand for a note-taking app. Many note-taking apps pitch themselves as the next evolution in your thinking, a tool that will unlock a new level of intellectual productivity. Their meme brand would be galaxy brain. Frankly, a lot of them are terrible because of their galaxy brain attitude, because by overpromising they convince you to invest a lot of time that would be better spent on something with more direct upside. The grug meme tells you that they're trying to buck that trend.
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#78maker here. well hot dam, not sure I'm ready for this. But happy to answer any questions if it stays online. Literally I'm the only daily active user right now. back story -- I was a happy roam research user, but i found it too slow for my iphone se. Been at home more with a one year old, so gotten back in to programming during naps.
Looks like a cool app that could be very useful. Interesting work.
Suggestion:
Record a new demo video with what I am going to call "normal" contrast white background and light elements theme. Your demo is super low contrast and very dark. Hard to watch.
Take cues from the way UI colors work on computers as shipped to the average person. Nobody ships their OS with super dark low contrast everywhere. Just suggesting, if you intend to actually go to market, you might just turn off your average user.
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#79If the Evernote sale has the dire consequences everyone expects it to, then the note-taking space is wide open. After ten years with Evernote, I migrated to Notion a few months ago and am heading towards another migration unless Notion starts to feel better to me soon. There are a lot of note-taking apps, but no gold standard yet.
Someday someone will produce a polished app with quick search, sync, and navigation, and all the popular features implemented in a way that imposes zero cognitive overhead if you don't use them. Most of the apps seem to be competing to figure out a unique killer feature or a unique experience to distinguish themselves from the pack, but I think the biggest winner will be the one that is just quietly better, a little bit smoother and quicker, that looks like it has no features at all except the ones you need.
That's an incredibly high bar for design and implementation, but somebody is going to hit it eventually. Who knows, maybe it will be Grug Notes!
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#80Cool! Looks really nice.
Why is the smart indentation active in view mode but not edit mode? :/