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Show HN: Intelligent notebook for organising time & knowledge easily

10 points by inferense 5y ago

inferense 5y ago
Maker here, great to be on HN! There's an abundance of note-taking / productivity apps and we've tried many of them before building acreom. Yet, we've had a difficult time sticking with them, mainly for 2 reasons: 1. The "all-in-one" interfaces are bloated with user-facing features in form of buttons, dropdowns etc. which makes them painful to use. Generally, these tools focus on organisation-first, capturing-second which also wasn't natural to our workflow. 2. Use-case-wise, the space is mostly fragmented. Some tools focus on note-taking, others on task management and few are all-in-one workspaces. Like many others, we resorted to using simple tools like apple notes or even pen&paper with calendar. But why isn't there just 1 easy to use tool for our workflow? This leads to our approach. acreom combines knowledge base with task management in 1 simple and functional interface. Instead of building features which are user-facing, acreom's aim is to offload much of the organisational hassle from the user with text-to-data conversion - NLP. Thus, the fundamental building principles of acreom are: 1. text-to-data conversion 2. capture-first, organise-later 3. private with no vendor-lock-in (export your data anytime, local storage & encryption coming out with our desktop app in the upcoming weeks) You can join our community and help us build this out! https://discord.gg/uwZ5a6zpbr https://discord.gg/uwZ5a6zpbr We're also on producthunt! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/acreom https://www.producthunt.com/posts/acreom
vort3 5y ago
How is it better than Obsidian, that stores files locally? I didn't find any info about pricing, also I can't find how to delete a «project» (created three of them when I was randomly clicking all the buttons to understand better how your site works and now don't know how to get rid of them).

4 ms·

Show HN: Intelligent notebook for organising time & knowledge easily

10 points by inferense 5y ago

inferense 5y ago
Maker here, great to be on HN! There's an abundance of note-taking / productivity apps and we've tried many of them before building acreom. Yet, we've had a difficult time sticking with them, mainly for 2 reasons: 1. The "all-in-one" interfaces are bloated with user-facing features in form of buttons, dropdowns etc. which makes them painful to use. Generally, these tools focus on organisation-first, capturing-second which also wasn't natural to our workflow. 2. Use-case-wise, the space is mostly fragmented. Some tools focus on note-taking, others on task management and few are all-in-one workspaces. Like many others, we resorted to using simple tools like apple notes or even pen&paper with calendar. But why isn't there just 1 easy to use tool for our workflow? This leads to our approach. acreom combines knowledge base with task management in 1 simple and functional interface. Instead of building features which are user-facing, acreom's aim is to offload much of the organisational hassle from the user with text-to-data conversion - NLP. Thus, the fundamental building principles of acreom are: 1. text-to-data conversion 2. capture-first, organise-later 3. private with no vendor-lock-in (export your data anytime, local storage & encryption coming out with our desktop app in the upcoming weeks) You can join our community and help us build this out! https://discord.gg/uwZ5a6zpbr https://discord.gg/uwZ5a6zpbr We're also on producthunt! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/acreom https://www.producthunt.com/posts/acreom
vort3 5y ago
How is it better than Obsidian, that stores files locally? I didn't find any info about pricing, also I can't find how to delete a «project» (created three of them when I was randomly clicking all the buttons to understand better how your site works and now don't know how to get rid of them).