simplenote-electron

Simplenote for Web, Windows, and Linux

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What it is

Simplenote for Web, Windows, and Linux

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Observed mentions: 2019-06-07 13:23:24 UTC to 2024-04-09 18:12:06 UTC.

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2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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smcnally·Apr 9, 2024

Agreed re stewardship & hope for long-term viability. Operation + updates ~3x / year for the iOS, macos and Linux clients I use daily and also for Android and Windows. Freemium and paywalling hasn’t infringed on utility yet and they’ve kept the source code available and GPLv2 https://github.com/Automattic/simplenote-electron

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dangus·Jun 7, 2019

Interesting choice: Simplenote's Windows and Linux clients are written in Electron. https://github.com/Automattic/simplenote-electron > simplenote-electron is the official Simplenote desktop app for Windows and Linux. I'm only being annoying and flame-war-ish to you about this because I'm somewhat tired of "framework hate." Case in point, you still use VSCode because no better alternative exists for Angular development. So, I still criticize your initial comment where you chose to proclaim that this app that you haven't tried should be written differently, even though it's written the same way as an application you rely on. It might be interesting to read one Electron developer's take on the issue: https://medium.com/@felixrieseberg/defeating-electron-e1464d...

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