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I like this. I may try it out in spite of having too many note-taking strategies already (and this wouldn't replace everything else). Please do share your story

I like this. I may try it out in spite of having too many note-taking strategies already (and this wouldn't replace everything else). Please do share your story - it's good marketing and it makes people feel better about paying (a measly) $5 when they understand what and who is behind it. Given the value and the ongoing work you'll be doing to add support for different contexts, I think you could raise the price to $10. Are you using the extended attributes to store notes in each file? If so, that'd make it easier to pass the notes along to other people. I could easily see this being useful across art departments. You probably have this on your to-do list, but you could use the new capability to badge icons in the Finder so I know there's a ghostnote attached.

ThomPete 12y ago
Wow some really great ideas there. We will be using the ability to store notes in files and folders. This will be especially helpful if you use ex. dropbox. that way you can share notes and dropbox takes care of the syncing.
- sithu 12y ago
  It would be great to have the note kept in sync with the comments section on a file/folder when you Get Info on it so it's easily passed along to others. But i'm not sure if that supports formatting/bullets, etc. Currently if a file is moved around, does it keep the note? Can you add a note to any URL, or only ones you've bookmarked? Very slick looking and great idea, i'll be buying
- jkestner 12y ago
  Where exactly would you be storing the note? Curious as to how durable/invisible it would be to the user.
  - ThomPete 12y ago
    In the assets themselves
    - jkestner 12y ago
      Sorry to be dense - I'm curious about the implementation. Can you give more detail? Is this in the extended attributes or file comments? Because I understand if the file moves to a non-HFS+ file system, you can lose those.
e12e 12y ago
I tried searching, but couldn't find a definitive answer: are resource forks still a problem when transferring files to non-os X systems? If I understood what I found correctly, dropbox handles resource forks (presumably just copying hidden _-metadata-files when using the app for os x) -- and apparently smb/cifs support resource forks (but I don't know how eg samba3/4 would store them on an ext4/zfs-backed file system). It's one of those great little features that really lose out to the least-common-denominator effect... I'd kinda hoped that Apple just found a way to push/force apps to use fileformats that included metadata (but that would of course create other problems, like no more plain text files)... Does anyone know of an up-to-date article that details the current state of resource forks and cross-platform issues (or lack thereof)?
- ThomPete 12y ago
  Yeah so one idea we are hoping to push with Ghostnote is to use it to store notes for sharing. So if you are using ex. Dropbox ghostnote will detect that and and the notes to the actual asset itself. That way others can see those notes and dropbox handles the syncing issues. You could even send attach files to emails and send them with notes embedded if you wanted. We are looking at some of these things and I am thinking with a little bit of luck this might be a good way to promote it.
  - e12e 12y ago
    I'm sorry if I'm a bit dense, but I'm not sure what you mean by "it" above. Do you mean resource forks? And how does that work if the email/filesync stops by a Linux/Windows machine or two on the way? Is there a "bundled" file-format that would allow something like a PSD to survive an email round-trip between eg. a designer running OS X, and a developer running Linux (err... in the case of a PSD, maybe windows -- even if Gimp's handling of PSDs are much better than it used to be :-)? Thankfully it's been a while since I had to deal with "mac"[1] files so I'm not updated on the current state of affairs. [1] Actually problems I've had had little to do with Apple per-se, more Adobe's lol-lets-throw-this-undocmented-binary-serialized-stuff-in-a-box-and-call-it-a-day hobby fileformat PSD -- that they apparently don't even understand how works themselves -- leading to some hair-pulling when going mac-windows-linux-mac etc.

ThomPete 12y ago

Wow some really great ideas there. We will be using the ability to store notes in files and folders. This will be especially helpful if you use ex. dropbox. that way you can share notes and dropbox takes care of the syncing.

sithu 12y ago
It would be great to have the note kept in sync with the comments section on a file/folder when you Get Info on it so it's easily passed along to others. But i'm not sure if that supports formatting/bullets, etc. Currently if a file is moved around, does it keep the note? Can you add a note to any URL, or only ones you've bookmarked? Very slick looking and great idea, i'll be buying
jkestner 12y ago
Where exactly would you be storing the note? Curious as to how durable/invisible it would be to the user.
- ThomPete 12y ago
  In the assets themselves
  - jkestner 12y ago
    Sorry to be dense - I'm curious about the implementation. Can you give more detail? Is this in the extended attributes or file comments? Because I understand if the file moves to a non-HFS+ file system, you can lose those.

e12e 12y ago

I tried searching, but couldn't find a definitive answer: are resource forks still a problem when transferring files to non-os X systems? If I understood what I found correctly, dropbox handles resource forks (presumably just copying hidden _-metadata-files when using the app for os x) -- and apparently smb/cifs support resource forks (but I don't know how eg samba3/4 would store them on an ext4/zfs-backed file system). It's one of those great little features that really lose out to the least-common-denominator effect... I'd kinda hoped that Apple just found a way to push/force apps to use fileformats that included metadata (but that would of course create other problems, like no more plain text files)... Does anyone know of an up-to-date article that details the current state of resource forks and cross-platform issues (or lack thereof)?

ThomPete 12y ago
Yeah so one idea we are hoping to push with Ghostnote is to use it to store notes for sharing. So if you are using ex. Dropbox ghostnote will detect that and and the notes to the actual asset itself. That way others can see those notes and dropbox handles the syncing issues. You could even send attach files to emails and send them with notes embedded if you wanted. We are looking at some of these things and I am thinking with a little bit of luck this might be a good way to promote it.
- e12e 12y ago
  I'm sorry if I'm a bit dense, but I'm not sure what you mean by "it" above. Do you mean resource forks? And how does that work if the email/filesync stops by a Linux/Windows machine or two on the way? Is there a "bundled" file-format that would allow something like a PSD to survive an email round-trip between eg. a designer running OS X, and a developer running Linux (err... in the case of a PSD, maybe windows -- even if Gimp's handling of PSDs are much better than it used to be :-)? Thankfully it's been a while since I had to deal with "mac"[1] files so I'm not updated on the current state of affairs. [1] Actually problems I've had had little to do with Apple per-se, more Adobe's lol-lets-throw-this-undocmented-binary-serialized-stuff-in-a-box-and-call-it-a-day hobby fileformat PSD -- that they apparently don't even understand how works themselves -- leading to some hair-pulling when going mac-windows-linux-mac etc.