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maker here. well hot dam, not sure I'm ready for this. But happy to answer any questions if it stays online. Literally I'm the only daily active user right now.

by keizo 4y ago

maker here. well hot dam, not sure I'm ready for this. But happy to answer any questions if it stays online. Literally I'm the only daily active user right now. back story -- I was a happy roam research user, but i found it too slow for my iphone se. Been at home more with a one year old, so gotten back in to programming during naps.

ditsuke 4y ago
Always excited to have more options in the PKM space. I have a couple questions — have you tried Obsidian.md? And what does grugnotes plan to use OpenAI for (besides as a development aid)
- keizo 4y ago
  briefly, but not extensively. I was a roam user for almost 3 years. I actually prefer a simple website for mobile and not having an app. I really dislike tags, and the look of brackets. in fact note taking in general lol. Preference is to type minimal notes, minimal configuration, minimal 'gardening'. The complexity and plugins people get into for note taking seems over the top for me. Gpt-3 for automatic entity extraction/tagging. Embeddings and Pinecone for similarity searches.
lawgimenez 4y ago
I want to access my notes both macOS and Linux. Is this possible in the future? I haven’t watched the video yet (I’m traveling right now).
- keizo 4y ago
  It’s mostly a sever side rendered website, so no problems. As long as you’re good with that.
fortylove 4y ago
You must have a good napper if you have time to get into a programming mindset during their naps! Congrats!
- keizo 4y ago
  yesss, she's awesome. late nights help too. :)
keizo 4y ago
*damn. A few more additional thoughts while anyone is looking: I hope to get a fake demo dataset made soon. It doesn't seem all that useful when you login with nothing there. Similarity search is pretty meaningless until you have things in there. And it's cool to get a sense of how notes can build over time to something useful. As a personal crm, I'm not sure what would be easier. Also need to make a more detailed video describing use cases, and explaining what the basic data models are. The last day or so I've been working on more structured data extraction -- as I have more fun doing that than trying to fix a few regex issues on the front end. fyi, I deployed a bug last night that broke the calendar. Fixed and deployed right now. Thanks anyone for looking!
wizzard0 4y ago
Very cool! Love the no-bullshit and concrete, to-the-point explanations. As one who tried a lot of TFT/SB apps, and built them too - I really appreciate the value of simple and focused ones. Sadly I won't use Grug as offline/onprem is a must for me, but you really set a new benchmark of what a MVP should look like. Really inspiring. Let it bloom, and keep it up!
- keizo 4y ago
  Thanks!!!
robomartin 4y ago
Looks like a cool app that could be very useful. Interesting work. Suggestion: Record a new demo video with what I am going to call "normal" contrast white background and light elements theme. Your demo is super low contrast and very dark. Hard to watch. Take cues from the way UI colors work on computers as shipped to the average person. Nobody ships their OS with super dark low contrast everywhere. Just suggesting, if you intend to actually go to market, you might just turn off your average user.
- keizo 4y ago
  Noted. And not first time hearing that. I’ll add some more contrast customization and a light mode. Demo video was like, how do I explain this to my friends starter video. not ready for hn spotlight.
  - robomartin 4y ago
    No worries. Nothing starts in ideal form. Get feedback, iterate and improve. Most of all, have fun.

by keizo 4y ago

ditsuke 4y ago

Always excited to have more options in the PKM space. I have a couple questions — have you tried Obsidian.md? And what does grugnotes plan to use OpenAI for (besides as a development aid)

keizo 4y ago
briefly, but not extensively. I was a roam user for almost 3 years. I actually prefer a simple website for mobile and not having an app. I really dislike tags, and the look of brackets. in fact note taking in general lol. Preference is to type minimal notes, minimal configuration, minimal 'gardening'. The complexity and plugins people get into for note taking seems over the top for me. Gpt-3 for automatic entity extraction/tagging. Embeddings and Pinecone for similarity searches.

lawgimenez 4y ago

I want to access my notes both macOS and Linux. Is this possible in the future? I haven’t watched the video yet (I’m traveling right now).

keizo 4y ago
It’s mostly a sever side rendered website, so no problems. As long as you’re good with that.

fortylove 4y ago

You must have a good napper if you have time to get into a programming mindset during their naps! Congrats!

keizo 4y ago
yesss, she's awesome. late nights help too. :)

keizo 4y ago

*damn. A few more additional thoughts while anyone is looking: I hope to get a fake demo dataset made soon. It doesn't seem all that useful when you login with nothing there. Similarity search is pretty meaningless until you have things in there. And it's cool to get a sense of how notes can build over time to something useful. As a personal crm, I'm not sure what would be easier. Also need to make a more detailed video describing use cases, and explaining what the basic data models are. The last day or so I've been working on more structured data extraction -- as I have more fun doing that than trying to fix a few regex issues on the front end. fyi, I deployed a bug last night that broke the calendar. Fixed and deployed right now. Thanks anyone for looking!

wizzard0 4y ago

Very cool! Love the no-bullshit and concrete, to-the-point explanations. As one who tried a lot of TFT/SB apps, and built them too - I really appreciate the value of simple and focused ones. Sadly I won't use Grug as offline/onprem is a must for me, but you really set a new benchmark of what a MVP should look like. Really inspiring. Let it bloom, and keep it up!

keizo 4y ago
Thanks!!!

robomartin 4y ago

Looks like a cool app that could be very useful. Interesting work. Suggestion: Record a new demo video with what I am going to call "normal" contrast white background and light elements theme. Your demo is super low contrast and very dark. Hard to watch. Take cues from the way UI colors work on computers as shipped to the average person. Nobody ships their OS with super dark low contrast everywhere. Just suggesting, if you intend to actually go to market, you might just turn off your average user.

keizo 4y ago
Noted. And not first time hearing that. I’ll add some more contrast customization and a light mode. Demo video was like, how do I explain this to my friends starter video. not ready for hn spotlight.
- robomartin 4y ago
  No worries. Nothing starts in ideal form. Get feedback, iterate and improve. Most of all, have fun.