Does it allow me to collaborate on notes with others?
Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts
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Re: Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts
#72how do I get something like this but in VSC or Obsidian? or to come at a slightly different angle, is anyone working on a version of this sort of product that can be self-hosted?
In VSC there's Dendron and Foam available
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#73Woah, cool to see Reflect on HN. I started Reflect a few years ago. We're building it as a lifestyle company. There's only four of us. We bootstrapped for a while, and then did a $1m crowdfund. Now our goal is to get to profitability, and we're half-way there. Product wise, our goal is to make something beautiful, fast, secure - that just works out the box. We're end-to-encrypted, which I think this crowd will apprec…
What happens if you go out of business?
NotePlan is severless
Re: Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts
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Apple notes cannot even link to a different note. There's a lot of middle ground between linked Markdown notes and the dogmatic "build a second brain" stuff.
For what it’s worth, Apple Notes can link between notes. Share, copy link, paste into another note. It could definitely be a bit more fluid though. I imagine shortcuts could help achieve that.
Hookmark app, which gives a shortcut to copy the formatted link, is all you need to link between notes in AN. They should release the mobile version soon, it's been in the works for some time.
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in my opinion that is adding AI for the sake of AI. If you're making homemade lasagna it takes a minute to add the ingredients you used to get a very accurate calorie count. There's really no way AI can do it better and more accurate.
Truth is though, I often skip logging calories because it's a PITA to do it. I have to scan the package, but I already threw the package away or it's dirty or covered in blood. I have to weigh things, but the food scale is in the other room, and I already mixed the ingredients. It's just a lot of extra steps to log calories using the currently available apps; I don't think I've ever logged a meal with less than 20 cl…
I agree with you, logging calories manually sucks, especially if you’re preparing whole foods. But how does adding AI into the mix solve the issue? E.g. it seems unlikely to me that we’ll ever get to the point of snapping a picture of a home cooked meal and getting accurate calories, maybe that’s where I’m being shortsighted?
Re: Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts
#76It seems very interesting.
I'm just trying it out on mobile Android and the experience is horrible.
All I can do is to edit the text but I can't navigate anywhere else unless I activate desktop mode on chrome, at which point the sidebars open but all text is so tiny ai have to zoom all the time and despite that I can't add new graphs and import my stuff from workflowy because the select box renders outside the viewport and I can't choose the import file format.
I'll give it another try once they get out of the "everybody has iPhones" bubble
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#77For years I’ve been pouring through all the apps/platforms like this, but after being burned too many times I am (incredibly) reluctant to tie my second brain to a box that will lock itself unless I pay. Even if it’s just an interface, it’s too disruptive when my whole workflow is upended by a service getting bought/shutting down/“upgrading” to break old features/increases fees. I see a “free trial”. That plus the la…
I found Twos to be a great tool for capturing and remembering things. It's fast, free, and available on most platforms. I love that they listen and prioritize user feedbacks (!!). Also, the development is very much active. If you wanna know more, it's https://www.TwosApp.com?code=nino/
Happy Twosday! :)
Re: Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts
#78People who are obsessed with second-brain tools often accomplish the least because they are preoccupied with optimizing the perfect setup. Notes.app FTW
And they never stick to one app long enough to get the benefits. Constantly switching, looking for better and faster. I switched to index cards, and honestly, I don't miss digital FOMO.
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#79I've been a reflect user since the beta, paid and then stopped. Switched to mem (never paid them) and really liked the quickness with which I can just "dump" my brain into mem. But their are not customer focused, and seeing that they kept piling on VC money, felt wrong to me. Then a friend suggested that I try Reflect again, I think after they added tasks, and I resubscribed and couldn't be happier. But I was, when t…
“Super fast”… it’s Electron
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I’ve really enjoyed Logseq and found the structure to better match how I think and structure notes. That it has a less rabid community and plug-ins than Obsidian is also a plus imo. Has been great seeing so much iteration in this space. https://logseq.com/
The only missing feature imo is the availability of plugins on the mobile app
Or native Apps without 200 GB chrome browser bloat.