Show HN: SideNotes 1.0 for macOS – Clean notes on the side of your monitor
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Re: Show HN: SideNotes 1.0 for macOS – Clean notes on the side of your monitor
#2Hi everyone!
Remember sticky notes? They are useful but really messy. So we decided to upgrade them - that’s how SideNotes appeared! And to keep your desktop clean, we moved the notes on the side.
SideNotes keeps handy notes organized in folders. Each note may have a color. Text formatting? Out of the box. Not only Markdown but also tasks, pictures, colors and links. Drop them or create a note right from the pasteboard content. Application might stay on top of other apps or be gently hidden until you need it. SideNotes is useful and elegant, handy and intuitive. It organizes your thoughts and speeds up your work.
We had lots of ️ to make it and we are proud of this app. It will be our honor if you love it, too.
Re: Show HN: SideNotes 1.0 for macOS – Clean notes on the side of your monitor
#3Hi everyone! Remember sticky notes? They are useful but really messy. So we decided to upgrade them - that’s how SideNotes appeared! And to keep your desktop clean, we moved the notes on the side. SideNotes keeps handy notes organized in folders. Each note may have a color. Text formatting? Out of the box. Not only Markdown but also tasks, pictures, colors and links. Drop them or create a note right from the pasteboa…
Once worked for a great manager who kept track of huge amount of information in Sticky Notes.
I always shied away from it because I could not come up with a simple way to export the data. Of course I could have parsed the huge plist file...
This looks very cool.
This is great.
Re: Show HN: SideNotes 1.0 for macOS – Clean notes on the side of your monitor
#4Hi everyone! Remember sticky notes? They are useful but really messy. So we decided to upgrade them - that’s how SideNotes appeared! And to keep your desktop clean, we moved the notes on the side. SideNotes keeps handy notes organized in folders. Each note may have a color. Text formatting? Out of the box. Not only Markdown but also tasks, pictures, colors and links. Drop them or create a note right from the pasteboa…
Are there plans to support Apple Notes? Sorry if SideNotes already does this. (I couldn’t find any mention of Apple Notes in the Mac App Store or on the Apptorium website.) If no, why develop another note taking app rather than provide a better front end to Apple Notes? At least then there’d be iCloud sync support ;)
Re: Show HN: SideNotes 1.0 for macOS – Clean notes on the side of your monitor
#5Please, please, please support applescript or some cli or API interface. If I can get these to reposition based in events.... Joy!
Re: Show HN: SideNotes 1.0 for macOS – Clean notes on the side of your monitor
#6Please, please, please support applescript or some cli or API interface. If I can get these to reposition based in events.... Joy!
AppleScript is supported. Next week we'll publish an article explaining that.
However, you can browse the syntax via Script Editor and use it right away.
Re: Show HN: SideNotes 1.0 for macOS – Clean notes on the side of your monitor
#7Hi everyone! Remember sticky notes? They are useful but really messy. So we decided to upgrade them - that’s how SideNotes appeared! And to keep your desktop clean, we moved the notes on the side. SideNotes keeps handy notes organized in folders. Each note may have a color. Text formatting? Out of the box. Not only Markdown but also tasks, pictures, colors and links. Drop them or create a note right from the pasteboa…
Are there plans to support Apple Notes? Sorry if SideNotes already does this. (I couldn’t find any mention of Apple Notes in the Mac App Store or on the Apptorium website.) If no, why develop another note taking app rather than provide a better front end to Apple Notes? At least then there’d be iCloud sync support ;)
I think Apple Notes should be Apple Notes. It's great for long notes.
SideNotes is made for quick, handy notes. That's different approach IMO.
Regarding to synchronisation, next step will be iCloud implementation
Re: Show HN: SideNotes 1.0 for macOS – Clean notes on the side of your monitor
#8I love the concept of this - I live off temporary lists and have tried a lot of different approaches to them - pen & paper, fancy pants notebooks and diaries, Apple Notes, Sticky Notes, full on GTD apps.
For me personally the perfect app just needs to stay out of my way most of the time. My lists are typically what I want to get done today or at most this week - I don't need reminders or nagging, repeated items, subtasks, fancy formatting or complex UIs. Just a list that I can bring up quickly and hide even more quickly.
The one thing that's missing for me right now (and I can see you're already on the case) is an iOS app with iCloud sync. When that's available I could definitely see myself replacing Apple Notes with this.
On a side note (sorry, couldn't help it) I was browsing through the other apps you have listed in the footer and some really nice looking apps in there! Nice work! Definitely going to give TeaCode, ScreenFocus and Expressions a try.
Re: Show HN: SideNotes 1.0 for macOS – Clean notes on the side of your monitor
#9Hi everyone! Remember sticky notes? They are useful but really messy. So we decided to upgrade them - that’s how SideNotes appeared! And to keep your desktop clean, we moved the notes on the side. SideNotes keeps handy notes organized in folders. Each note may have a color. Text formatting? Out of the box. Not only Markdown but also tasks, pictures, colors and links. Drop them or create a note right from the pasteboa…
Very nice implementation Emkaka. I built a sticky notes replacement app too called Thought Train, but I really like your implementation :)
Re: Show HN: SideNotes 1.0 for macOS – Clean notes on the side of your monitor
#10Hi everyone! Remember sticky notes? They are useful but really messy. So we decided to upgrade them - that’s how SideNotes appeared! And to keep your desktop clean, we moved the notes on the side. SideNotes keeps handy notes organized in folders. Each note may have a color. Text formatting? Out of the box. Not only Markdown but also tasks, pictures, colors and links. Drop them or create a note right from the pasteboa…
Are there plans to support Apple Notes? Sorry if SideNotes already does this. (I couldn’t find any mention of Apple Notes in the Mac App Store or on the Apptorium website.) If no, why develop another note taking app rather than provide a better front end to Apple Notes? At least then there’d be iCloud sync support ;)
Has anyone done a front end to apple notes? All I see are different note taking apps. None being wrappers of Apple Notes.