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by ricg 5y ago
Thank you! Yes, I have plans for an iOS app, but want to add a few things to the Mac app before that. I have a block-based editor 70% ready and want to get that shipped before working on an iOS version. Syncing will work through iCloud Dri
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by ricg 5y ago
If you don't renew you can still use the app and open and edit all your existing notes. Good point, I need to make this more clear on the site. HTML vs. ZIP vs. power user: I'm going for the most common denominator, the average us
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by ricg 5y ago
Yes, it is aimed more at academia and professionals who want/need to preserve knowledge in a structured way. Support for footnotes is planned.
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by ricg 5y ago
Thank you! Those last 10% always seem to take just as long as the first 90! Ask me one day about that typo that a friend discovered that showed in all marketing materials so that I had to redo all screenshots and the demo video. Pricing: ye
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by ricg 5y ago
Agreed, you'd have to localize the description to support all currencies and then update whenever the price tiers or tax rates change. For the website: I just added the pricing in USD.
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by ricg 5y ago
Thanks for your feedback and encouragement! I'm not taking this personal, I appreciate the feedback and I knew beforehand that subscriptions are controversial. I contemplated the pricing model for a very long time going back and forth
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by ricg 5y ago
Thanks for your feedback and your kind words!
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by ricg 5y ago
I considered textbundle, but went for HTML for one reason: data accessibility. Imagine in 20 years from now you'd want to access your data and do not have the app around for some reason. You would need to find another app that supports
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by ricg 5y ago
Thank your for part 1 and I hear you for part 2 :)
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by ricg 5y ago
Thanks for your feedback! At what price would you consider the app for a one time purchase?
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by ricg 5y ago
Yes, absolutely valid concerns and I've though about those. When cancelling the subscription, all existing notes and all data remains fully accessible (read and write). It’s a knowledge base, after all. Projects with more than 50 notes
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by ricg 5y ago
Sorry for the confusion. The app launched only yesterday. I just added the pricing details to the website. As another commenter pointed out, the tricky part is that the App Store adjusts prices for each country, but I will figure something
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by ricg 5y ago
Exactly. I just added the pricing details in USD and will figure something out.
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by ricg 5y ago
I hear you. Trouble is, paid upgrades are tricky to implement in the MAS. About data longevity: if you cancel your subscription, you cannot add new notes, but you retain full access to all existing notes and all features remain active (you
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by ricg 5y ago
Fixed now, thanks a lot!
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by ricg 5y ago
Thanks for the heads-up! Fixed now. Of course it had to be that heading ;)
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by ricg 5y ago
Awesome! Let me know how the app works out for you. One pet peeve of mine is that many notes apps make it easy to enter notes, but when it comes to retrieving content all I'm left with is full text search. I added two additional ways,
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by ricg 5y ago
Thanks for your feedback! I was looking for a voice over that does not sound as polished as a radio ad. Sounds like I went a bit overboard with that :)
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by ricg 5y ago
Awesome, thanks for your feedback! Yes, I plan to provide continued updates. I have lots of more ideas (block based editor, large calendar view, smart search folders, …). I considered a one-time paid with paid upgrades model, but decided to
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by ricg 5y ago
Thanks for your feedback! The spreadsheet view works in combination with metadata fields. Let's say you have a number of notes for your contacts. You tag each note with #contact and add a few fields like "Name", "Departm
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by ricg 5y ago
Hi HN, I spent the past 3 years working on a personal notes app that focuses on data longevity. Everything is saved as simple files and folders. In fact, you can open any folder as notebook. External documents/files/PDFs can live
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Show HN: I wrote a local-first notes app for Mac, with data longevity in mind(noteship.com)
127 points by ricg 5y ago|101 comments
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by ricg 5y ago
Thanks for the details. I'll take a closer look. The documents of my app can get quite large, up to 300 to 400 MB (lots of small images). I was thinking to use SQLite as an alternative to the ZIP based format that I'm using at the
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by ricg 5y ago
Well, I'm thinking of an app that lets the user edit some kind of document. At some point the changes have to be saved. Could this happen to the "live" file or would the workaround be to keep a temporary copy somewhere away f
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by ricg 5y ago
Is SQLite a good choice for a user facing file format? I.e. were the user can access the database file in Finder/Explorer and make a copy at any point in time to share, backup, etc. Would that copy be consistent?
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by ricg 6y ago
Is there a way to get the drive SMART status without having to install 3rd party tools that run as root (or another safe way, e.g. through a VM or rolling back an APFS snapshot afterwards, etc.)? I wouldn't mind writing a bit of code e
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by ricg 6y ago
So an iPad Pro running Big Sur? Combined with the Magic Keyboard, interesting... although I'd say an M1 Mac with a touch display is more likely. We'll see.
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by ricg 6y ago
I'm not too fond of the extra spacing and padding on Big Sur either. It reduces information density. All in preparation for a MacBook Touch?
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by ricg 6y ago
Love the metaphor: "It’s thanks to well-designed user interfaces that we enjoy driving a classic car, or shooting with a 50-year-old film camera, or listening to vinyl records on a 40-year-old record-player and hi-fi stereo."
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by ricg 6y ago
Anyone still remember Apple Remote? It used to come free with your MacBook and is to this day one of my favorite features of my mid 2012 MBP that I will miss terribly once I have to upgrade (no Big Sur support...).

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