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I use tadalists all the time for making one-line notes and putting down ideas. Like, I have a tada list called "Ideas" for startup ideas and another one "Articl
by Maro 18y ago
I use tadalists all the time for making one-line notes and putting down ideas. Like, I have a tada list called "Ideas" for startup ideas and another one "Articles" for stuff to write about. 99% of the stuff I want to write down fits this idiom well.
Very rarely I want to take multi-line notes, in these cases I use Google Docs, since I use all the G apps anyways.
Where does your stuff fit in? The ability to link to other entries seems pretty useless, or at least rarely useful.
After trying out the demo, it's better than G Docs because the interface is simpler. G Docs opens docs in new tabs/windows which is pretty annoying for smaller docs. If you add some kind of check-off bullet point capability to your lists (e.g. gray them out), then I could ditch tadalist and G docs and unite my stuff here. That would make sense.
You call it a "personal wiki" which seems like marketing speak for nothing, since the idea of a wiki is that everybody can edit it, but if it's personal, then it's really just a specialized HTML editor (?). Maybe you should just call it a "Notebook that just works".
UI bug report: when I click an entry on the left side, you flash it (in yellow) and then you scroll to it. But if it takes long to scroll there then the flash in unseen by the user. Scrolling then flashing may work better.
- witten 18y agoThe ability to link to other notes may indeed be useless for your particular needs. But it's hugely useful for a large class of notebooks. For instance, if you're writing a novel and you need to keep track of your characters and their relationships, being able to link from one note to another is incredibly handy. So I see that as where Luminotes fits in. It's really a notebook of interlinked notes, which you can't really do with Google Docs or Tadalist. You can do it with a full-fledged wiki like Mediawiki, but for many people that's overkill, and besides doesn't come with the nice UI. As for bullet point check-off capability, you can quite easily use the strikethrough for that purpose. I know several people who use that for crossing things off lists as they're completed. It's perhaps not as convenient as a single checkbox, but it does work. "Personal wiki" isn't marketing speak, as I'm going for the "interlinked collection of notes/pages" aspect of the word "wiki" rather than the collaboration sense of the word. But I think it's becoming increasingly clear that regardless of all that, "personal wiki" isn't a great way to describe the product. Thanks for the UI bug report. I think I should be able to make the scroll and flash work serially rather than in parallel.
- witten 18y agoOkay, the scrolling and flashing is now serial instead of parallel. And I sped up the scrolling speed as well. Thanks again.