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Nice tool to scratch your own itch. I've thought of doing something similar many times, but I've found that just using Evernote or Quiver and having a reasonabl

Nice tool to scratch your own itch. I've thought of doing something similar many times, but I've found that just using Evernote or Quiver and having a reasonable search works just fine for me since I tend to write meticulous notes. Having a separate tool might be an added behavior that discourages taking notes, but depends on each person's habits I suppose.

dbcurtis 10y ago
Yes, that exactly the barrier for me. I use Mindnode (Mac-only, but really just a straight-forward mind mapping tool). The barrier is remembering to have Mindnode up while I'm working, and then doing the appropriate copy/paste-age. Doing all that not curation in real time tends to take me out of the flow.
mercer 10y ago
I like - and bought -Quiver, but I'm concerned with the lack of updates. I'm a firm believer in not adding needless features just to stay busy. For example, I use DEVONThink, which has not really received any significant feature updates in a few years! I've also never felt 'bad' about the long period in which there was no development on Sublime Text. But Quiver is far from 'good enough' for me. The popup-style search is nowhere close what I want, there's no keyboard shortcut to indent list items (at least not in Markdown mode), and there are tons of ways in which the app can and needs to be improved. I bought it mostly because of its promise, and because the storage format is really nice. Furthermore, building a cross-platform Quiver (perhaps with Electron/React Native) with some specific DEVONThink-like features is high on my list of itches I've been meaning to scratch. But until I do so, or until active development on Quiver becomes evident, I can't help but feel slightly disappointed. All that said I'm ultimately happy to have supported a developer who put out something nice with a great data format! Just being grumbly, I guess.
- peternicky 10y ago
  Well said, this reflects my experience using quiver.
- patleeman 10y ago
  I've been working on Collate https://collatenotes.com/ https://collatenotes.com/ which you may find interesting. Quiver had some influence on the feature set but I've taken the good parts and added other neat features. Give the free demo a try and see if it works for you.
  - mercer 10y ago
    That looks great! The landing page answered exactly my questions, so to the degree that I'm your target audience: that's really impressive. Even more impressive considering that I absolutely and unreasonably loathe websites that mess with my scrolling, which yours appears to do. May I suggested turning that off :-)? Anyways, I'll try it out and get back to you!
    - patleeman 10y ago
      Yeah, sorry about the scroll jacking. I'm using some off the shelf wordpress theme and I can't figure out how to disable it! I'm going to dig into the codebase a little and see whats causing it. Edit: Ha! Squashed the js that was causing the scroll jacking. Thanks for the bug report ;)
  - angerbot 10y ago
    Collate looks amazing! I've been looking for exactly this, and since I use Linux rather than OS X quiver was out. Trying it out now and I'll almost definitely be purchasing. Edit: Where can I file bug reports? :)
    - patleeman 10y ago
      https://collatenotes.com/bug-report/ https://collatenotes.com/bug-report/ Also 0.2.4 should drop in a few days that fixes a ton of bugs. You can follow along on our roadmap here: https://trello.com/b/Mk4OWPJo https://trello.com/b/Mk4OWPJo
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stockkid 10y ago
Yes. Evernote is good if writing long notes. I actually have a notebook called 'Coding' in my Evernote in which I write programming notes. I think using something like `echo "note" >> .note` or Dnote can be good for writing a short oneliners and getting back to the original task, without losing focus.

dbcurtis 10y ago

Yes, that exactly the barrier for me. I use Mindnode (Mac-only, but really just a straight-forward mind mapping tool). The barrier is remembering to have Mindnode up while I'm working, and then doing the appropriate copy/paste-age. Doing all that not curation in real time tends to take me out of the flow.

mercer 10y ago

I like - and bought -Quiver, but I'm concerned with the lack of updates. I'm a firm believer in not adding needless features just to stay busy. For example, I use DEVONThink, which has not really received any significant feature updates in a few years! I've also never felt 'bad' about the long period in which there was no development on Sublime Text. But Quiver is far from 'good enough' for me. The popup-style search is nowhere close what I want, there's no keyboard shortcut to indent list items (at least not in Markdown mode), and there are tons of ways in which the app can and needs to be improved. I bought it mostly because of its promise, and because the storage format is really nice. Furthermore, building a cross-platform Quiver (perhaps with Electron/React Native) with some specific DEVONThink-like features is high on my list of itches I've been meaning to scratch. But until I do so, or until active development on Quiver becomes evident, I can't help but feel slightly disappointed. All that said I'm ultimately happy to have supported a developer who put out something nice with a great data format! Just being grumbly, I guess.

peternicky 10y ago
Well said, this reflects my experience using quiver.
patleeman 10y ago
I've been working on Collate https://collatenotes.com/ https://collatenotes.com/ which you may find interesting. Quiver had some influence on the feature set but I've taken the good parts and added other neat features. Give the free demo a try and see if it works for you.
- mercer 10y ago
  That looks great! The landing page answered exactly my questions, so to the degree that I'm your target audience: that's really impressive. Even more impressive considering that I absolutely and unreasonably loathe websites that mess with my scrolling, which yours appears to do. May I suggested turning that off :-)? Anyways, I'll try it out and get back to you!
  - patleeman 10y ago
    Yeah, sorry about the scroll jacking. I'm using some off the shelf wordpress theme and I can't figure out how to disable it! I'm going to dig into the codebase a little and see whats causing it. Edit: Ha! Squashed the js that was causing the scroll jacking. Thanks for the bug report ;)
- angerbot 10y ago
  Collate looks amazing! I've been looking for exactly this, and since I use Linux rather than OS X quiver was out. Trying it out now and I'll almost definitely be purchasing. Edit: Where can I file bug reports? :)
  - patleeman 10y ago
    https://collatenotes.com/bug-report/ https://collatenotes.com/bug-report/ Also 0.2.4 should drop in a few days that fixes a ton of bugs. You can follow along on our roadmap here: https://trello.com/b/Mk4OWPJo https://trello.com/b/Mk4OWPJo
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stockkid 10y ago

Yes. Evernote is good if writing long notes. I actually have a notebook called 'Coding' in my Evernote in which I write programming notes. I think using something like `echo "note" >> .note` or Dnote can be good for writing a short oneliners and getting back to the original task, without losing focus.