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Noteplan – Markdown Calendar, Todos, and Notes
- aijony 9y agoWow, I was expecting this to be open source. I would never pay money for this.
- bmpafa 9y ago(I'm not affiliated w/ this product at all) this seems un-constructive and mean-spirited. IMO, at the _very_ least, you should offer a reason as to why this isn't your cup of tea.
- _acme 9y agoWhy would you never pay money for this? Do you mean this is a poor product in some way or simply that you would never pay money for software, either for ideological or financial reasons or both?
- yigitdemirag 9y agoI have tried to design a similar workflow using OmniOutliner, but miserably failed. I'm using it for basic todos and one line notes but it is nowhere close to this functionality.
- tmaier 9y agoI tried it out a couple of months ago, but then decided to not go forward with it. After the trial was over, i was inable ro access my markdown notes again. I really really hate when I get locked into a product. No matter how open and cool it looks thanks to Markdown.
- simonh 9y agoAs soon as your subscription is over you lose access to everything? Ok, that’s a total deal breaker right there.
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- sb8244 9y agoSomething is not right here. The notes are stored on your computer in plain text files, so you can't lose access to them. If you can't use the app to access them, well that seems okay.
- bsg75 9y agoI don't see any lock in: https://noteplan.co/faq/Save%20&%20Sync/How%20your%20notes%20are%20saved/ https://noteplan.co/faq/Save%20&%20Sync/How%20your%20notes%2... I use it and all my notes are in ~/Library/Application Support/co.noteplan/Calendar as text files. I don't think you lose anything if you want to migrate away.
- Trundle 9y agoYou were unable to access your notes or you were unable to access your notes through Note plan?
- arkades 9y agoSerious question: why is keyboard long-press for moving the cursor gone? That bit of UI solved a real problem, and I'm finding this app very clumsy to use without it. For $15, I dislike feeling mildly annoyed the entire time I'm trying to type into a text app.
- EduardMe 9y agoLimitation in the framework. We are re-writing the iOS version to support this. See https://noteplan.co/assets/videos/new-ios-version.MP4 https://noteplan.co/assets/videos/new-ios-version.MP4 somewhere at the end of the video its working.
- qrbLPHiKpiux 9y agoStill pen and paper for me! (Said in Ned Flanders’ voice)
- ephimetheus 9y agoMy two criteria for it to be useful for me: - Can I use latex? - does it render inline single page PDF images?
- bmpafa 9y agovery clean looking productivity tool. desktop client looks especially slick. aside: i thought the time lapse transition[1] in the demo was pretty cleverly done [1]: https://i.imgur.com/X6BwS9c.gif https://i.imgur.com/X6BwS9c.gif
- wingerlang 9y agoDoes it sync with my normal calendar? (e.g. google calendar setup)
- arkades 9y agoIt appears to import from your calendar, but doesn't export to, unless I'm mistaken.
- amirmasoudabdol 9y agoI think it works with the iCloud calendar, maybe if you have the Google Calendar setup on your iPhone, then it does.
- DanielBMarkham 9y agoThis looks really cool. I'd love to see it cross-platform. There's an interesting pattern developing (hopefully). Things that used to be GUI-only are now getting text interfaces, many times with some modified version of markdown. I made a free tool to capture analysis notes and diagrams a while back. You can see a demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFVfTpXCIiI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFVfTpXCIiI As part of that, at the lowest level of detail I wanted a way to capture diagrams using plain text. Something universal. We're almost there -- not quite there, but close. I found ways to do Activity Diagrams, flowcharts, domain models, and some other stuff using text. The formats were just a bit too dissimilar for comfort. Why use text for all sorts of things that used to be graphical? Version control, text slicing and dicing, separation of document from view. I'd love to see this trend continue, along with a consolidation into a super-markdown syntax. It could handle calendaring, diagramming, perhaps even layout -- along with what it currently does. I don't think you'd have to hack it up too much, but admittedly I haven't looked into the spec that much.
- j45 9y agoAgreed on needing to be cross-platform. Evernote with this type of functionality would almost be there.
- nerdponx 9y agoThe endgame for this, IMO, is GUI tools that generate and manipulate text-based file formats. The tool Lyx does this; it's a kinda-WYSIWYG Latex editor. I'd like to see more of these, e.g. for Markdown, Graphviz, and OpenSCAD.
- anaphylactic 9y agoI'm guessing XML doesn't count as a text-based file format? Otherwise, that's what every office suite (technically a zip file of XML files, but that's splitting hairs), vector editor, and graphical HTML editor already does. Anyway, I especially like the `sc` spreadsheet format and editor as an example of a GUI tool that works with text-based file formats. Despite the giant disclaimer at the top of each file saying not to edit it, it's shockingly human-friendly.
- nixpulvis 9y agoI'm a fan of the idea and design, but I'm curious how well it works for non Apple users. Is there a web interface planned? I've been wanting something like this for a while now. Syncing with existing calendar apps would be cool too, but I care a bit less about that, and maybe a bit more about some form of self-hosting the data.
- hprotagonist 9y agoIt’s slightly amusing how often people reinvent parts of org-mode.
- PurpleRamen 9y agoWho cares? Org-mode wasn't the first, nor the best. People are often inventing different solutions for the same domain of problems. That's how healthy competition works.
- haraball 9y agoThat sounds a bit to me like why should you create Slack when you have irssi.
- applecrazy 9y agoI've started using org for a month or two, and I love it. However, getting things synced across my devices is a problem, especially since beorg doesn't support Google Drive sync. I feel like this product has its own unique spot on the market provided they can get sync perfect and feature parity with org-agenda. Hopefully they have a CLI client in the works.
- hprotagonist 9y agoI sync with `git pull`.
- geraldbauer 9y agoGreat idea. Not as sophisticated and little simpler I published a new day-to-day journal standard called Journal.TXT [1] - The Human Multi-Document Format for Writers a while ago. Lets you write single-text file journals in text with markdown formatting conventions. [1]: https://journaltxt.github.io https://journaltxt.github.io
- avallark 9y agoif emacs?! why this?
- hollander 9y agobecause mac != emacs
- amirmasoudabdol 9y agoNotePlan is really nice indeed, and I’ve recently started using it as it’s avalible through the Setapp [1]. I think the iOS app needs some more polishing but since files are plain text, I can live with it and edit stuff on some other apps on iPhone or iPad. I also wish they’d have used the Taskpaper syntax for date-time management. [1]: https://setapp.sjv.io/c/1237684/408056/5114 https://setapp.sjv.io/c/1237684/408056/5114
- keeptrying 9y agoThis is great. Someone has taken org mode and make it work outside of emacs. Very nice.
- mickael-kerjean 9y agoIt already exist and works out of emacs: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/nuage/wiki/Org-Mode https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/nuage/wiki/Org-Mode
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- keeptrying 9y agoSo I can download an app and use it right now?
- mickael-kerjean 9y agoThe app is a browser you can use once you found a suitable home for the server either by: - Selfhosting: you install the server all by yourself - Saas mode: https://nuage.kerjean.me/ https://nuage.kerjean.me/ (that's my instance I use everyday) - PaaS mode: Coming soon with heroku but also works with AWS Lambda Could make it an electron thinghy as well but just never thought about it until now.
- jbverschoor 9y agoWell, the beauty of it is that it integrated niceley with calendar and reminders
- spraak 9y agoI've been using Dynalist.io to the same effect for over a year now. It's also a bit more flexible than Noteplan looks, and has similar features like Workflowy
- solarkraft 9y agoI love using Dynalist for lists. It works very well with how I think. For a complete note taking app I would like being able to insert more than text (or richer text) into the lists. For simplicity and speed (the mobile app is an adapted version of the webapp, which is adapted well but still has problems with gestures, UI consistency and has to load for up to seconds on startup) my notes king is still Simplenote, which just processes text, but is very fast, native on Android (web on desktop) and has amazing synching.
- spraak 9y agoI haven't noticed any performance issues with Dynalist, but thanks for the tip on Simplenote!
- mushishi 9y agoThis demo page is sluggish on a year old Macbook (Chrome). https://dynalist.io/demo/4kpmt51ULD2RgJlcb8IZLZai https://dynalist.io/demo/4kpmt51ULD2RgJlcb8IZLZai
- spraak 9y agoIt could be just the demo. I've never experienced sluggishness of even older hardware with the actual app
- alhirzel 9y agoYou can get basically the same thing with Vim and Taskwarrior; this is my preferred solution because I tend to live in Vim (for better or worse) and there are Taskwarrior clients that sync to everything. You can search the whole thing, and version control it if you want. It's a bit more manual but I'd argue equal in effectiveness. https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki https://github.com/tbabej/taskwiki https://github.com/tbabej/taskwiki
- e40 9y agoI have been looking for something just like this! But, even though I use a Mac, I have an Android phone (Android One, Moto x4). So close!
- eugeniub 9y agoAre there plans on implementing end-to-end encryption for syncing? This is the most important thing missing in almost all other notes/todo apps in my opinion.
- EduardMe 9y agoWe are using iCloud Drive, which is encrypted as per Apple before it is sent to their servers. But we are thinking to implement local encryption as well, if this is something users want.
- eugeniub 9y agoYou could build in end-to-end encryption on top of iCloud Drive. Without it, anyone with access to iCloud servers can read users' private notes, including Apple, Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Co. in China, etc.
- app4soft 9y agoThere are many fully FREE & opensource tools VNote[0] for all desktops (Linux, Windows, macOS), that discussed[1] on HN too. Markor[2] for Android, already available on F-Droid[3]. [0] http://github.com/tamlok/vnote http://github.com/tamlok/vnote [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16149821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16149821 [2] https://github.com/gsantner/markor https://github.com/gsantner/markor [3] https://f-droid.org/packages/net.gsantner.markor/ https://f-droid.org/packages/net.gsantner.markor/
- sb8244 9y agoThis is exactly what I've been looking for. I tried to fill in the gap with org-mode a while back, but I fell out with it. It simply doesn't cross the gap of calendars, ad hoc meetings, etc. I really like how integrated noteplan is cross-device and to my calendars. It "just works" and took me only a few minutes to get setup. The biggest setup pain point is that I didn't have my native calendar integration setup right. 35$ is more than fair for something that would take multiple hours to setup with other tools.
- tonteldoos 9y agoI'm surprised nobody has mentioned Joplin[0] yet. Markdown support, great synchronization (for the supported options), cross platform support (albeit with Electron), and mobile support. It doesn't do calendar integration (which probably makes it slightly off-topic), but for a lot of the other items mentioned in general note taking posts below, it works fantastically well. [0] https://joplin.cozic.net/ https://joplin.cozic.net/