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Is HN a good acquisition channel for you folks? I say this because Supernotes has been posted five times in the last nine months.

fastball 6y ago
It's actually not the best channel, but we're long-time HN readers ourselves and know that a lot of people around here are interested in PKM! Development is moving fairly rapidly, so whenever we release a new feature we think HNers might appreciate we make a new post. Since the last time SN was posted on HN, we've added: - public sharing pages - embedding - pinning - today view - visibility (show / hide cards) - and more! Impetus for this post was the embedding though because we're really excited about the possibilities for that feature. Have a lot of great new features in the works as well, so you might see more posts in the future...
- meagher 6y ago
  Cool. Looks like Supernotes has made a lot of progress. I recently started using Craft (https://craft.do https://craft.do). Does the concept of "cards" resonate with people? To me, it feels too constrained, but I haven't tried out Supernotes yet.
  - fastball 6y ago
    Craft is cool too! A lot like Notion, which is actually the tool we use internally for a lightweight CRM and such (though as we've progressed with SN we find ourselves using it less and less). I definitely think people are more accustomed to documents vs. cards, but we've many users say they enjoy the card format more once they acclimate. The real power in the cards though is less that they look like cards and more just encouraging people to be a little bit more modular / atomic in their thinking (which humans seem to do anyway). Other great tools like Roam/Obsidian do this by encouraging your atomic thoughts to be represented as bullet points and that can work great for some people too, but one of our goals is to have a fairly portable format that you can use anywhere (hence the push for embedding) and cards works very well for that. On Supernotes you can also turn on "seamless mode" which makes delineation between cards disappear entirely so it just looks like you're reading a document, and we want to add more flows like that in the future so that the line between cards and docs blurs even more when you want/need it to.
    - hliyan 6y ago
      I played around with the "seamless view" and found it very appealing. I wish my twitter timeline could look like that...
      - fastball 6y ago
        Glad to hear it! One of my (mostly unspoken) goals of Supernotes is actually that one day someone will write an entire book using our notecards. Create parent notecards that represent the chapters, child notecards for paragraphs within each chapter, drag cards around to quickly restructure your book, automatically generate a TOC based on that structure, one-click export to dump the whole thing as an epub... I think that would be very cool.
        hliyan 6y ago
        A hierarchy of content units where you can move units at will (rather than select, copy and paste) would be extremely nice.
  - saadalem 6y ago
    Cards help me personally in in Mind Mapping and is the kind of thing that can also be done in a group. It involves getting something to write upon (ideally poster board paper and a mix of different colored magic markers) and thinking non-linearly while filling that paper up with ideas.
- searchableguy 6y ago
  > t's actually not the best channel Could you tell us which channel works the best for you?
  - tobeagram 6y ago
    Of course! The best channels for us have definitely been growing organically through seo-targeted blog posts, productivity communities and comparison sites. Unfortunately more traffic ≠ more subs.
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fastball 6y ago

It's actually not the best channel, but we're long-time HN readers ourselves and know that a lot of people around here are interested in PKM! Development is moving fairly rapidly, so whenever we release a new feature we think HNers might appreciate we make a new post. Since the last time SN was posted on HN, we've added: - public sharing pages - embedding - pinning - today view - visibility (show / hide cards) - and more! Impetus for this post was the embedding though because we're really excited about the possibilities for that feature. Have a lot of great new features in the works as well, so you might see more posts in the future...

meagher 6y ago
Cool. Looks like Supernotes has made a lot of progress. I recently started using Craft (https://craft.do https://craft.do). Does the concept of "cards" resonate with people? To me, it feels too constrained, but I haven't tried out Supernotes yet.
- fastball 6y ago
  Craft is cool too! A lot like Notion, which is actually the tool we use internally for a lightweight CRM and such (though as we've progressed with SN we find ourselves using it less and less). I definitely think people are more accustomed to documents vs. cards, but we've many users say they enjoy the card format more once they acclimate. The real power in the cards though is less that they look like cards and more just encouraging people to be a little bit more modular / atomic in their thinking (which humans seem to do anyway). Other great tools like Roam/Obsidian do this by encouraging your atomic thoughts to be represented as bullet points and that can work great for some people too, but one of our goals is to have a fairly portable format that you can use anywhere (hence the push for embedding) and cards works very well for that. On Supernotes you can also turn on "seamless mode" which makes delineation between cards disappear entirely so it just looks like you're reading a document, and we want to add more flows like that in the future so that the line between cards and docs blurs even more when you want/need it to.
  - hliyan 6y ago
    I played around with the "seamless view" and found it very appealing. I wish my twitter timeline could look like that...
    - fastball 6y ago
      Glad to hear it! One of my (mostly unspoken) goals of Supernotes is actually that one day someone will write an entire book using our notecards. Create parent notecards that represent the chapters, child notecards for paragraphs within each chapter, drag cards around to quickly restructure your book, automatically generate a TOC based on that structure, one-click export to dump the whole thing as an epub... I think that would be very cool.
      - hliyan 6y ago
        A hierarchy of content units where you can move units at will (rather than select, copy and paste) would be extremely nice.
- saadalem 6y ago
  Cards help me personally in in Mind Mapping and is the kind of thing that can also be done in a group. It involves getting something to write upon (ideally poster board paper and a mix of different colored magic markers) and thinking non-linearly while filling that paper up with ideas.
searchableguy 6y ago
> t's actually not the best channel Could you tell us which channel works the best for you?
- tobeagram 6y ago
  Of course! The best channels for us have definitely been growing organically through seo-targeted blog posts, productivity communities and comparison sites. Unfortunately more traffic ≠ more subs.

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