Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by osdev 697 days ago
Nice idea and the site looks well done! Congrats on launching this. I played around the site a bit and with the different panels.. a few thoughts/questions...

THOUGHTS

1. Target: Is the market for enterprise/work or for consumer/personal use or does it not matter? Similar question for people, is it more for people who need diagrams in combination with notes and if so, are these mostly technical people who could author both the notes / diagrams and for non-technical people who would read/consume them?

2. All-In-One: The inevitable question/concern on a tool that combines many things into one, is that, it being good but not great at any one thing. This is something I'm also dealing with on one my projects. How do you address this concern?

3. Limitations: Are there any limitations with the note taking, or the diagramming capabilities compared to specialized products / apps like Joplin, UpNote, Bear, or Draw.io ?

QUESTIONS

1. Tab: Is a "tab" analogous to a "note" in other apps?

2. Panels: Are all the panels linked to a tab and is there a limit to the panels?

3. Folders: I didn't quite get it, but how are multiple notes organized into 1 collection?

4. Diagrams: Do you have an example of a sophisticated diagram made with your app?

I use diagramming quite often, but it's mostly for work purposes for technical software architecture diagrams, which I eventually embed into other wiki pages and/or git readmes. For personal use at home, I can't remember the last time I had to diagram anything. The first thing that comes to mind is how does the diagramming compare to something more specialized like draw.io. I can definitely see potential in this for work purposes.

All the Best!

1 comments

Thanks! feedback greatly appreciated. Answers, for Questions: 1. Cluster of 4 panels is a tab, it can be 4 streams of notes, or 4 different types of modes - Diagramming/Codes etc. Or even 1 note but whole organization is a tab. 2. There is a limit, yes, right now only 4 panels are workable. 3. You can have unlimited tabs within a collection, it is for the 'separation of concern' where you would want to separate your things completely. 4. I do for features in my day job as a dev, yes. But sophisticated - may be not, but they are small features.

Thoughts: 1. I had to personalize for set of people, coding editors aren't used by non technical works. 2. I'm personally looking for people's inputs on this, thanks! My focus on developers in one such start. 3. Also welcome all your input on this, apart from the aesthetics, I didn't see any limitations.