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by anigbrowl 1755 days ago
I went from 'well it's OK' to 'I quite like this' to 'it's great!' in about 10 minutes.

Creating a new web account loads the tutorial page, but it's a little confusing at first how to add a node. Also, there are quite a few spelling and grammar errors on that page which will make an unfair negative impression. If you clean those up you will get more conversions.

Examples:

  It's my job to keep your complicated brain neat and tidy and remember **things** for a long time!

  Here's how you can **create** a neat Note Garden.

  2. Structure what you have learned and put **it** in order.
  
  I even take care of your knowledge so that you won't forget **it** for the rest of your life!

  (The road to being a great gardener** was **not easy, but we did it!)
Note also in the last example how the bold markdown surrounds the whitespace. I highlighted this manually (and carelessly) but clicking on a word also selects trailing spaces. You should probably strip the whitespace.

On the landing page 'Write Smartly' is correct English, but people rarely use the word this way - although it is technically correct it feels weird, and you don't want to create that feeling on a landing page. 'Write Smart' would be better.

Also, you wrote 'Law students - People who study for a long time that should not be forgotten'. I suggest 'Law students - People who need to study and retain knowledge for a long time.'

These are small language errors, but they would be very quickly noticed by your target audience.

Finally, the desktop sign-in with Google seems not to work - it opens a blank window and then closes again. Maybe it is just from server load right now.

Anyway I like it a lot and will consider using it regularly. I am more of a pencil-and-paper note person but this is one of the nicest digital notebooks I've found.

1 comments

Is this comment on the wrong post?
And it's on top. I wonder how often people actually read entire article or the comment. I think most often people read the first line and just choose if they agree or don't agree with comment and vote accordingly.

More often I have seen that the top comment on the article is completely opposite perspective of what is in the article. For example, if article is about why Flutter or Go is amazing we will see why both are worst choices ever as top comment here.

I think it just proves people feel the "need" to comment only if they disagree. If they agree with article they don't bother explaining and hence low comment count. In short, a controversial topic will generate lot of engagement and hence other social network don't bother moderating and let people engage in harmful behaviours to society at whole.

Yes, I was checking out both projects but got distracted and didn't notice which one I replied to. By the time someone kindly pointed it out the edit window had closed.
GPT6 escaped from Google!
Yes... ಠ_ಠ
ha! I saw this comment on one of the top posts and wondered if I was on the right page. I thought maybe I glitched