PRprimis·Jun 25, 2021Submission
Show HN: Notes, Simple delightful note taking, with more Unix and less lock-in
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notes
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pimterry / notes
notes
:pencil: Simple delightful note taking, with more unix and less lock-in.
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7Mentions
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:pencil: Simple delightful note taking, with more unix and less lock-in.
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Observed mentions: 2016-12-01 15:28:55 UTC to 2021-06-25 19:46:58 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
7 sourcesNotes (http://github.com/pimterry/notes) on Keybase's kbfs. I really like having my notes be plain text files in an e2e encrypted network folder. The main downside is that there's no great way to create notes from keybase's Android app.
In Ask HN: What's your catch-all note taker?This:
https://github.com/pimterry/notes
This is not my repo.
In Ask HN: What software do you use to take notes?Obviously, I spent far too much time building my own cli tool to manage them in nice simple text format: https://github.com/pimterry/notes.
Don't ask how I kept notes on the implementation process.
In Ask HN: Coding notes – how do you do them?I recently built a ultra-simple tool for exactly this: https://github.com/pimterry/notes
Keeps notes as markdown organised by folder on disk, delegates syncing to whatever you're already using for everything else (Dropbox, Seafile), and just provides a minimal flexible command-line interface over the top to search them, explore through them, and edit them with any editor you like.
The tool itself is tiny, but with this I get everything that EverNote used to give me, none of the lock-in or painful web UI, and I can get at it from any other device too (by just editing them in Dropbox from anywhere).
Note sharing: Dropbox already does that. Code highlighting: your editor (probably) already does that. Image uploads = putting an image in a folder. Keep it simple.
In Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?Show HN: Notes. Simple flexible unix-y note taking
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