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

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robomartin wrote: post #78
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.

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,…

Noted. And not first time hearing that. I’ll add some more contrast customization and a light mode. Demo video was like, how do I explain this to my friends starter video. not ready for hn spotlight.

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

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Post by keizo »

jamesu wrote: post #72

I'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.

Noted. I’d like to add some functionality through right click for removing or altering when ai gets things wrong. And drag and drop sorting of blocks.

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

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Post by keizo »

justsomeuser wrote: post #86

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?

Yeah definitely seeing how far I can push textarea! Not sure it’s smart and the one issue I haven’t solved is the block indents on editing. But it’s ok. Still have the occasional or semi frequent rendering error when tags interfere. Hoping to stay away from content editable and any complicated editors. I use js to measure the width of spaces to set up pre so the two layers line up.

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

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Post by keizo »

VoodooJuJu wrote: post #67

Yet another casualty of poorly contrasting text.

Noted. I try to keep the actual notes a little higher contrast. I don’t want any interface hence the low contrast on those things. But obviously what I like not for everyone and I’ll will add more options!

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

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Post by keizo »

deburo wrote: post #80

Cool! Looks really nice. Why is the smart indentation active in view mode but not edit mode? :/

Artifact of using textarea over content editable. No good way to modify formatting of textarea, so instead I made styles fit textarea. Not exactly ideal, just where I ended up.

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Post by alex3305 »

dkarl wrote: post #87
alex3305 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The shortest sync interval is still 5 minutes. But I have developed the habit of CTRL+S'ing after each important change. Which is coincidentally the sync shortcut key within Joplin. So for me that isn't really an issue.

But to be fair, I was looking for a 'real-time' webbased app, like Notion. But I wanted it to be self-hosted, use Markdown for formatting, (a little) polished and easy to setup and maintain. And while Joplin isn't perfect, or even fits all of my criteria, it was a close second. Even if it has it's drawbacks.

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

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Post by dang »

rco8786 wrote: post #70

I haven't tried this out, but I can basically guarantee that Apple Notes is better.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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