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by rubymamis 828 days ago
Looks really cool! For anyone looking for a very similar UI but an editor that also supports complex blocks (like Kanban, images etc) you can check out my note-taking app Plume with a block editor[1] (beta is out in about a month, sign up for the waitlist!). Every note is a simple plain text string (with Markdown syntax) that is rendered via Qt C++ and QML.

[1] https://get-plume.com/

EDIT: Added the app isn't out yet (about a month more of hard work!)

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Not a dig at you, but I see you plugging this on everything even remotely similar to your app. With the caveat that your product is not even out? Is the intention just to build hype?

Seems a bit disingenuous is all.

> Is the intention just to build hype?

No, the intention is to build a waitlist to get feedback from target users. I'm following sort of a similar plan the Linear guys went with[1].

EDIT: It also gives me a lot of motivation to see people liking what I build and waiting to use it - which takes tremendous tall on me since I'm working on it 24/7 every day for the past 7 months.

[1] https://linear.app/blog/rethinking-the-startup-mvp-building-...

I think my reason for commenting was because the way you comment makes it seem like the product is out to try / "check out my product!" but the product doesn't even exist.

It feels dishonest? Like a bait and switch.

That being said, good luck.

Oh, gotcha, I edited the comment to add that the app isn't out yet. Thanks.
When will we see an alpha release which we could use to play around? I like what I see!
Thanks! In about a month!
Recently Trello has restricted the kanban guests to ten people. If your kanban functionality has some simple file in the background that is easy to share it could be used to hack an alternative to it.
The Kanban syntax is simple, Markdown headers and Markdown to-do items encapsulated with very minimal custom syntax like so:

{{kanban}}

# Todo

- [ ] todo 1

- [ ] todo 2

# In Progress

- [ ] todo 1

- [ ] todo 2

{{/kanban}}

Currently, Plume doesn't support collaboration. How do you think it can be an alternative to Trello?