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Re: Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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Post by alex3305 »

dkarl wrote: post #79

If 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, an…

I have setup Joplin a few weeks ago and I really enjoy using it. AFAIK it is not as powerful as something like Notion or Obsidian, but it just works. And is already miles better than using loose txt files, like I was before.

Re: Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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Post by BirAdam »

lumb63 wrote: post #4

I 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.

I do the same, but I have a few bash scripts to handle search, tags, date sorting, git commit/push/pull for sync, and a few other things. Works well for me, but I imagine that others would hate it.

Re: Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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Post by throwaway4aday »

alex3305 wrote: post #81
dkarl wrote: post #79

If 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, an…

I have setup Joplin a few weeks ago and I really enjoy using it. AFAIK it is not as powerful as something like Notion or Obsidian, but it just works. And is already miles better than using loose txt files, like I was before.

Joplin is great. Easy to use, simple, markdown powered and the export to web is not bad.

Re: Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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Post by justsomeuser »

I like the way you use a combination of for editing and 
 for DOM elements.
I actually have come to the same solution for a transcription web app.
I have found that  manipulation from JS is not really possible without `Document.execCommand` which is deprecated. Some edits will clear the undo history.
Do you have any notes you can share?

Re: Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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Post by dkarl »

alex3305 wrote: post #81
dkarl wrote: post #79

If 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, an…

I have setup Joplin a few weeks ago and I really enjoy using it. AFAIK it is not as powerful as something like Notion or Obsidian, but it just works. And is already miles better than using loose txt files, like I was before.

I'll have to give Joplin another try. Last time I tried it (probably more than a year ago) the sync interval was fixed, and the fastest option was five minutes, which didn't work for the use case of making a note on my laptop, tossing my laptop in my bag, walking out the door, and having the note available on my phone.

Re: Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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Post by keizo »

58x14 wrote: post #76

I 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 yo…

Thanks! Don’t have time for any other way!

I don’t plan a whole lot, but whisper looks fun and all other open ai stuff has been smooth to integrate. So sure, that’s a plan! In the mean time, I’ve used apple dictation when driving a couple times.

Re: Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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Post by keizo »

dkarl wrote: post #79

If 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, an…

Wow, thanks for the encouragement! I currently load all notes ever created on the one page. At some point that might not scale, but for now Ctrl f must be fastest search right?? Haha.

Re: Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes

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Post by keizo »

wizzard0 wrote: post #69
keizo wrote: post #18

maker 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.

Very cool! Love the no-bullshit and concrete, to-the-point explanations. As one who tried a lot of TFT/SB apps, and built them too - I really appreciate the value of simple and focused ones. Sadly I won't use Grug as offline/onprem is a must for me, but you really set a new benchmark of what a MVP should look like. Really inspiring. Let it bloom, and keep it up!

Thanks!!!
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