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Acreom 1.0 – a lightweight Markdown editor with tasks for developers

71 points by inferense 4y ago

samkovrablik 4y ago
Looking slick! Any plans on iOS app?
- inferense 4y ago
  thanks! we have just released beta https://acreom.com/downloads/ https://acreom.com/downloads/ let us know what you think!
inferense 4y ago
Hi HN, founder of acreom here. After over a year of building, we're excited to drop the beta badge and introduce acreom 1.0. The HN community was very helpful for us from the very beginning. We've recieved hundreds of signups on our google forms before writing the first line of code and a valuable feedback on our ideas throughout our beta. We're building acreom to be the dev-first workflow tool you will love using, individually and later in the team. Today acreom is built to be your daily driver for capturing notes, breaking down development tasks, tracking progress and building a knowledge base. acreom is built around the following fundemantal principles: tight integration of markdown, tasks and calendar capture-first organise-later interface designed for keyboard local-first you can try it out in your browser without downloading anything. if there's anything we can do better, pelase let us know. we're also on producthunt [1] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/acreom-1-0 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/acreom-1-0
- robertlacok 4y ago
  Any way to integrate the tasks with Linear?
  - inferense 4y ago
    not yet, but we plan to explore this soon.
- atfzl 4y ago
  Hey, I wanted to try this out but I am seeing a lot of performance issues. There are forced reflows of >1s on normal interactions. I ran it on my MacBook Air M1.
  - hackal 4y ago
    Hi, co-creator of acreom here. It's known issue and we are shipping M1 build very soon.
- volfied 4y ago
  Your landing page title has a typo in it "They way ..."
- bjconlan 4y ago
  This might be the right developer tool workflow tool for today. Like vs code pulled me out of emacs, this might be the tool that pulls me out of org-mode. Congratulations on v1 and I look forward to giving this a try.
sippndipp 4y ago
Awesome app. Love it. Tightly integrates with my calendar. Easy, keyboard driven divide and conquer for my documents into tasks. Way better than all the other knowledge base apps.
Equiet 4y ago
I saw your roadmap includes sync with Jira, how will that look like?
- inferense 4y ago
  we want to make sure you won't need to go to Jira again. So syncing issues and their properties bi-directionally.
  - MaxDPS 4y ago
    Any plans for integrating with Asana?
padr 4y ago
How does this compare to Obsidian?
- inferense 4y ago
  We like Obsidian a lot, but I believe we are taking a slightly different direction. 1. we believe in a tight integration of Markdown and tasks - a knowledge base should be executable. When it's not you end up with 2 disconnected tools 2. our focus is on developers where we feel the unaddressed need for a tool that prioritises dev user experience. We see this especially in the collaborative setting where devs use tools like Jira & Confluence etc. On the other hand, we also believe in the modular approach and extensibility.
JuroOravec 4y ago
Just saw you have Mermaid integration. I'm a heavy diagrammer, so thanks for that! Any thoughts on integrating with draw.io?
- inferense 4y ago
  draw.io is awesome, we will probably integrate it as a community plugin!
_visgean 4y ago
I use it alongside notion, I find its a bit better for organising as it integrates with all my google calendars..
- deleted 4y ago
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sunaden 4y ago
Big fan of the clean design and focus on keyboard shortcuts! Awesome work.
- inferense 4y ago
  glad you like it!
masterof0 4y ago
Amazing. I would consider making an official Youtube channel, and uploading some video tutorials there. Many people prefer video tutorials over good ol articles. Also , maybe a way to turn telemetry on/off? I really love I can use Acreom without any type of account. If you add E2EE in the premium plans many offline first users will get it for sure (at least I will). I didn't get super deep there, but is it possible to have an account with you and after buying a premium plan, just use an activation code/license, instead of logging in? Edit: typo
- hackal 4y ago
  Thanks for the suggestions. E2EE sync is on our roadmap. We have made the first step by adding login with email/password (secure remote password protocol). At the moment account is required for having pro features.
mackopes 4y ago
I've tried using Acreom for a couple of my projects. The app defo has potential. However, I could not wrap my head around their concept of "inbox". In Acreom, the "inbox" means all the unscheduled tasks. However, in my workflows, I often juggle multiple projects at once, and not all tasks have a set date yet, or I just want to do them "sometime in the future". The inbox is cluttered and useless as I see the same tasks repetedly until I schedule them. In my head (and, I am sure, in the heads of other GTG users, too), inbox is just a parking lot for all the not yet organised tasks. Once a day, I go through my inbox, assign all the tasks to the coresponding projects and MAYBE schedule them. In this sense, Acreom does not support my workflow :( However, as I see the upsides of having tasks intercalated with project notes, I'd consider giving Acreom one more go once a better task organising system is implemented.
- inferense 4y ago
  you're right that's something we need to improve. Thanks for the extensive feedback.
- MaxDPS 4y ago
  That’s exactly what I think of as inbox as well. As a (I’ll admit, ugly) workaround, is there someway to have the default date set sometime in the far future? I guess I’m just wondering if that’s technically possible since this app does look very nice, aside from your main feedback.
super_linear 4y ago
This looks awesome, I'm definitely going to try it. ...but I do think this quote on the homepage is a bit silly: > Used by the most productive developers at Stripe, Google, Microsoft, Deep Mind
timfsu 4y ago
This is crazy - I've been working on a similar app that ties a daily journal with tasks & calendar (https://daybird.app https://daybird.app). There's another one I saw recently called reflect.app as well. Note taking has been around forever, I wonder what it is about this space that's triggering so many new products. Anyways, Acreom looks fantastic, good luck with the launch!
- iKlsR 4y ago
  As someone who has tried many the primary issue is that one has a good feature that the other lacks. I'm currently juggling between Supernova, Obsidian, Reflect, Daybridge and a few more but this really hits a sweet spot. Once I saw the calendar setup of Reflect I knew I wanted something like that but on the desktop but they are mac only atm. Speaking of which I want to try your app, any plans to drop a "native" version.
- slightwinder 4y ago
  > I wonder what it is about this space that's triggering so many new products. Note-taking is a low-hanging fruit, and it's basically impossible to create the perfect solution for everyone. So there will always be a constant supply of new apps, catering to a new generation of users and trying out new paradigms, or reinventing old forgotten paradigms. The same happened 20 years ago, the same will still be happening in 20 Years. It's an endless circle. Though, one notable difference is, that today it's easier than ever, to create high quality apps&services and share them. So we also see many more poor and half-assed solutions in absolute numbers, than 20 years ago.
KaoruAoiShiho 4y ago
Okay... this is like the 6th knowledge base app I see on HN in the past month. Can you explain how this is different from all the alternatives please?
SebastianKra 4y ago
With all these wiki apps coming out, I'm disappointed that Bear is still the only one that focuses on images. I keep notes about design and photography, but even for non-visual topics, I like to add an image, just so that my brain can make an association between it and the topic. For example, a logo or a screenshot of the landing page. Because Bear displays one or two images in the note list, I feel like I can more easily scan it.
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SSGAlexKollar 4y ago
I have been using Acreom for the last year or there about. It has become a HUGE facet of my day to day organization and note keeping. I can not recommend acreom enough. A major congratulations are in order for reaching v1.0 Keep on hacking! - Alex, President SSG
iKlsR 4y ago
I have been looking for something exactly like this, Obsidian with a calendar plugin didn't feel right and I don't like that https://reflect.app https://reflect.app is online and Apple only. However two immediate gripes 1. The name is kinda forgettable or weird, I installed it this morning and every time I go to pull it up I have to think to remember the app 2. Dark mode is nice and all but some people like myself cannot use it https://jessicaotis.com/academia/never-use-white-text-on-a-black-background-astygmatism-and-conference-slides/ https://jessicaotis.com/academia/never-use-white-text-on-a-b... so consider a light theme or even better a soft palette
- deafpolygon 4y ago
  That's why I don't the shift to blinding white backgrounds for light theme either. The old Win95 grey windows were best.
throwoutway 4y ago
This is nice but the insistence on monthly subscription is a deal breaker. Offer a local mode for a one time payment and you’ll get 10x the customers
- inferense 4y ago
  local mode is free, no account necessary.
  - throwoutway 4y ago
    Oh, I missed that on my small mobile, thank you
aroundthfur 4y ago
I know this is a small stuff to nit pick on, but any plans on releasing it as a raw binary or linux distro packages? Not everyone is using the AppImage and building from source is a PITA.
- inferense 4y ago
  sorry for the delay, yes we plan to do that!

71 points by inferense 4y ago

samkovrablik 4y ago

Looking slick! Any plans on iOS app?

inferense 4y ago
thanks! we have just released beta https://acreom.com/downloads/ https://acreom.com/downloads/ let us know what you think!

inferense 4y ago

Hi HN, founder of acreom here. After over a year of building, we're excited to drop the beta badge and introduce acreom 1.0. The HN community was very helpful for us from the very beginning. We've recieved hundreds of signups on our google forms before writing the first line of code and a valuable feedback on our ideas throughout our beta. We're building acreom to be the dev-first workflow tool you will love using, individually and later in the team. Today acreom is built to be your daily driver for capturing notes, breaking down development tasks, tracking progress and building a knowledge base. acreom is built around the following fundemantal principles: tight integration of markdown, tasks and calendar capture-first organise-later interface designed for keyboard local-first you can try it out in your browser without downloading anything. if there's anything we can do better, pelase let us know. we're also on producthunt [1] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/acreom-1-0 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/acreom-1-0

robertlacok 4y ago
Any way to integrate the tasks with Linear?
- inferense 4y ago
  not yet, but we plan to explore this soon.
atfzl 4y ago
Hey, I wanted to try this out but I am seeing a lot of performance issues. There are forced reflows of >1s on normal interactions. I ran it on my MacBook Air M1.
- hackal 4y ago
  Hi, co-creator of acreom here. It's known issue and we are shipping M1 build very soon.
volfied 4y ago
Your landing page title has a typo in it "They way ..."
bjconlan 4y ago
This might be the right developer tool workflow tool for today. Like vs code pulled me out of emacs, this might be the tool that pulls me out of org-mode. Congratulations on v1 and I look forward to giving this a try.

sippndipp 4y ago

Awesome app. Love it. Tightly integrates with my calendar. Easy, keyboard driven divide and conquer for my documents into tasks. Way better than all the other knowledge base apps.

Equiet 4y ago

I saw your roadmap includes sync with Jira, how will that look like?

inferense 4y ago
we want to make sure you won't need to go to Jira again. So syncing issues and their properties bi-directionally.
- MaxDPS 4y ago
  Any plans for integrating with Asana?

padr 4y ago

How does this compare to Obsidian?

inferense 4y ago
We like Obsidian a lot, but I believe we are taking a slightly different direction. 1. we believe in a tight integration of Markdown and tasks - a knowledge base should be executable. When it's not you end up with 2 disconnected tools 2. our focus is on developers where we feel the unaddressed need for a tool that prioritises dev user experience. We see this especially in the collaborative setting where devs use tools like Jira & Confluence etc. On the other hand, we also believe in the modular approach and extensibility.

JuroOravec 4y ago

Just saw you have Mermaid integration. I'm a heavy diagrammer, so thanks for that! Any thoughts on integrating with draw.io?

inferense 4y ago
draw.io is awesome, we will probably integrate it as a community plugin!

_visgean 4y ago

I use it alongside notion, I find its a bit better for organising as it integrates with all my google calendars..

deleted 4y ago
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sunaden 4y ago

Big fan of the clean design and focus on keyboard shortcuts! Awesome work.

inferense 4y ago
glad you like it!

masterof0 4y ago

Amazing. I would consider making an official Youtube channel, and uploading some video tutorials there. Many people prefer video tutorials over good ol articles. Also , maybe a way to turn telemetry on/off? I really love I can use Acreom without any type of account. If you add E2EE in the premium plans many offline first users will get it for sure (at least I will). I didn't get super deep there, but is it possible to have an account with you and after buying a premium plan, just use an activation code/license, instead of logging in? Edit: typo

hackal 4y ago
Thanks for the suggestions. E2EE sync is on our roadmap. We have made the first step by adding login with email/password (secure remote password protocol). At the moment account is required for having pro features.

mackopes 4y ago

I've tried using Acreom for a couple of my projects. The app defo has potential. However, I could not wrap my head around their concept of "inbox". In Acreom, the "inbox" means all the unscheduled tasks. However, in my workflows, I often juggle multiple projects at once, and not all tasks have a set date yet, or I just want to do them "sometime in the future". The inbox is cluttered and useless as I see the same tasks repetedly until I schedule them. In my head (and, I am sure, in the heads of other GTG users, too), inbox is just a parking lot for all the not yet organised tasks. Once a day, I go through my inbox, assign all the tasks to the coresponding projects and MAYBE schedule them. In this sense, Acreom does not support my workflow :( However, as I see the upsides of having tasks intercalated with project notes, I'd consider giving Acreom one more go once a better task organising system is implemented.

inferense 4y ago
you're right that's something we need to improve. Thanks for the extensive feedback.
MaxDPS 4y ago
That’s exactly what I think of as inbox as well. As a (I’ll admit, ugly) workaround, is there someway to have the default date set sometime in the far future? I guess I’m just wondering if that’s technically possible since this app does look very nice, aside from your main feedback.

super_linear 4y ago

This looks awesome, I'm definitely going to try it. ...but I do think this quote on the homepage is a bit silly: > Used by the most productive developers at Stripe, Google, Microsoft, Deep Mind

timfsu 4y ago

This is crazy - I've been working on a similar app that ties a daily journal with tasks & calendar (https://daybird.app https://daybird.app). There's another one I saw recently called reflect.app as well. Note taking has been around forever, I wonder what it is about this space that's triggering so many new products. Anyways, Acreom looks fantastic, good luck with the launch!

iKlsR 4y ago
As someone who has tried many the primary issue is that one has a good feature that the other lacks. I'm currently juggling between Supernova, Obsidian, Reflect, Daybridge and a few more but this really hits a sweet spot. Once I saw the calendar setup of Reflect I knew I wanted something like that but on the desktop but they are mac only atm. Speaking of which I want to try your app, any plans to drop a "native" version.
slightwinder 4y ago
> I wonder what it is about this space that's triggering so many new products. Note-taking is a low-hanging fruit, and it's basically impossible to create the perfect solution for everyone. So there will always be a constant supply of new apps, catering to a new generation of users and trying out new paradigms, or reinventing old forgotten paradigms. The same happened 20 years ago, the same will still be happening in 20 Years. It's an endless circle. Though, one notable difference is, that today it's easier than ever, to create high quality apps&services and share them. So we also see many more poor and half-assed solutions in absolute numbers, than 20 years ago.

KaoruAoiShiho 4y ago

Okay... this is like the 6th knowledge base app I see on HN in the past month. Can you explain how this is different from all the alternatives please?

SebastianKra 4y ago

With all these wiki apps coming out, I'm disappointed that Bear is still the only one that focuses on images. I keep notes about design and photography, but even for non-visual topics, I like to add an image, just so that my brain can make an association between it and the topic. For example, a logo or a screenshot of the landing page. Because Bear displays one or two images in the note list, I feel like I can more easily scan it.

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SSGAlexKollar 4y ago

I have been using Acreom for the last year or there about. It has become a HUGE facet of my day to day organization and note keeping. I can not recommend acreom enough. A major congratulations are in order for reaching v1.0 Keep on hacking! - Alex, President SSG

iKlsR 4y ago

I have been looking for something exactly like this, Obsidian with a calendar plugin didn't feel right and I don't like that https://reflect.app https://reflect.app is online and Apple only. However two immediate gripes 1. The name is kinda forgettable or weird, I installed it this morning and every time I go to pull it up I have to think to remember the app 2. Dark mode is nice and all but some people like myself cannot use it https://jessicaotis.com/academia/never-use-white-text-on-a-black-background-astygmatism-and-conference-slides/ https://jessicaotis.com/academia/never-use-white-text-on-a-b... so consider a light theme or even better a soft palette

deafpolygon 4y ago
That's why I don't the shift to blinding white backgrounds for light theme either. The old Win95 grey windows were best.

throwoutway 4y ago

This is nice but the insistence on monthly subscription is a deal breaker. Offer a local mode for a one time payment and you’ll get 10x the customers

inferense 4y ago
local mode is free, no account necessary.
- throwoutway 4y ago
  Oh, I missed that on my small mobile, thank you

aroundthfur 4y ago

I know this is a small stuff to nit pick on, but any plans on releasing it as a raw binary or linux distro packages? Not everyone is using the AppImage and building from source is a PITA.

inferense 4y ago
sorry for the delay, yes we plan to do that!