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I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by djm_ »

craftzdog wrote: post #73
TheGrumpyBrit wrote: post #50

It looks good, and I like your pricing model more than the Standard Notes one (I don't want to drop $149 at once on a web app, but the 75% discount for doing so makes the monthly price seem way too expensive). Two things that stop me pulling the trigger: 1. I need a web app. I want to be able to call up my notes from a computer, anywhere, without installing anything. 2. A 60 day trial seems like the wrong way to test…

The author here. > A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit That's interesting and I basically agree with your opinion. You will be more comfortable to try it. But I suspect that many free riders will come eat the server resources. This is not a startup. I would rather like to be small.

> A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit

Eeesh. Be careful taking advice from someone who has no intention of paying now. You're doing a great job Takuya, keep on trucking.

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by badfrog »

robbiemitchell wrote: post #83
TheGrumpyBrit wrote: post #50

It looks good, and I like your pricing model more than the Standard Notes one (I don't want to drop $149 at once on a web app, but the 75% discount for doing so makes the monthly price seem way too expensive). Two things that stop me pulling the trigger: 1. I need a web app. I want to be able to call up my notes from a computer, anywhere, without installing anything. 2. A 60 day trial seems like the wrong way to test…

> I want to be able to call up my notes from a computer, anywhere, without installing anything. Why? How often do you retrieve your notes from some random computer that doesn't have your other preferred (or required) software installed?

For me, all the time.

I can't install software at work, so a web app would be the only to access my stuff during the work day. I also have a shared computer in my living room that I don't install personal apps or log into personal accounts on. Web apps let me quickly access something there when I need to and log out easily.

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by craftzdog »

mremco wrote: post #90

Hi Tayuka, Congratulations on the launch! Great to see end-to-end encryption made the cut. It seems hard to put the burden on users never to lose their login password though — they lose all their data when they do. Have you looked at the Tanker SDK? It’s an open-source, cross-platform SDK for end-to-end encryption (with a zero-knowledge key distribution service), that’s very user friendly when it comes to recovery. W…

Thanks! I'll take a look.

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by craftzdog »

badfrog wrote: post #92
robbiemitchell wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I want to be able to call up my notes from a computer, anywhere, without installing anything. Why? How often do you retrieve your notes from some random computer that doesn't have your other preferred (or required) software installed?

For me, all the time. I can't install software at work, so a web app would be the only to access my stuff during the work day. I also have a shared computer in my living room that I don't install personal apps or log into personal accounts on. Web apps let me quickly access something there when I need to and log out easily.

The author here.

You are right. I basically build my apps for myself who always use the same computers. I understand there are various people with various needs - but I would like to focus on pleasing people who are similar to me. I believe this is important to provide a good service. I don't feel like making apps like Microsoft Office with tons of features to please everyone.

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by craftzdog »

djm_ wrote: post #91
craftzdog wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author here. > A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit That's interesting and I basically agree with your opinion. You will be more comfortable to try it. But I suspect that many free riders will come eat the server resources. This is not a startup. I would rather like to be small.

> A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit Eeesh. Be careful taking advice from someone who has no intention of paying now. You're doing a great job Takuya, keep on trucking.

Thanks!

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by Mithriil »

shapiro92 wrote: post #57

i am the only one that keeps using sticky notes on windows and google keep? do people take that many notes that they need to invest in such a fancy tool?

I see some reasons to do so.

You can write a blog in Markdown and generate your own static website with it, you could write a diary in Markdown, which I do, or you could take notes of code implementation, which could require LaTEX for nice mathematics and code fences to organize small chunks of code.

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by zrobotics »

vmurthy wrote: post #69
paddypad wrote: post #33

Imho, notetaking Apps are solving problems that shouldn‘t be solved by them. Encryption / sync should be done by the system via git, Nextcloud, Dropbox, ... Most of the rest is provided by a decent text editor.

Not really. There must be a small(big?) subset of people who don't want to setup git,nextcloud,dropbox etc. to get encryption/sync working. As a hacker it might offend your sensibilities of "one thing well" but not everyone is a hacker :-)

This is a markdown notes app though, who realistically is the target market besides hackers? The only people I have met who like markdown are programmers.

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by sorenjan »

Pepe1vo wrote: post #72
00deadbeef wrote: post #58

It looks nice but it being Electron and subscription-based means I won't buy it. I'm pretty happy with Quiver.

I get the sentiment against Electron, there are horribly bloated applications out there which are a direct consequence of how (badly) Electron was built and designed. However, this particular application appears to work exactly as intended and uses all of 150MB of RAM and 0.1% CPU on my (admittedly quite beefy) laptop. Maybe, just maybe, this is actually a pretty well-built application? I understand if someone won't…

Windows 98 needed 16 MB RAM and 120-295 MB harddrive storage. Why would a note taking app need more memory than an entire OS?

Because browsers are their own OS pretty much, and shipping one per application is not ideal.

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by mdhughes »

zimpenfish wrote: post #86
mdhughes wrote: post #82

Why, so have I, and so has every other programmer on Earth. https://mdhughes.tech/thoughtpy/ This has been mostly used as my engineering notebook, in lieu of stacks of Moleskines. Simple command-line tool for editing and searching, a pipeline to any Markdown app for display, and DropBox for syncing, that's all I needed. I could also use it on mobile with Pythonista, with some changes to get a DropBox path and open it…

> every programmer should be capable of making certain basic tools of their own, such as note-taking, blogging, a calculator, and scripting languages. I'd counter that by adding "...and wise enough to know better than to actually do it."

Without the experience of making and supporting such tools, you'll never acquire wisdom, or many useful skills.

Thought.py is maybe my 4th note-taking system, simpler and more precisely what I needed than any previous. Practice makes perfect. Doing nothing makes nothing.

Re: I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years

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Post by paulcole »

badfrog wrote: post #92
robbiemitchell wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I want to be able to call up my notes from a computer, anywhere, without installing anything. Why? How often do you retrieve your notes from some random computer that doesn't have your other preferred (or required) software installed?

For me, all the time. I can't install software at work, so a web app would be the only to access my stuff during the work day. I also have a shared computer in my living room that I don't install personal apps or log into personal accounts on. Web apps let me quickly access something there when I need to and log out easily.

If you don’t log into personal accounts on it what difference would it make if there was a web app version of this notes thing? You wouldn’t log into it anyway.
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