Wow, #1 in tech, thank you so much for all the kind words and comments—this app is about 18 months in the making, so it's been surreal to watch it blow up like this over the past week.
I'll hang out here and answer questions where I can. If anyone would be interested in beta testing upcoming releases, particularly as we get closer to iOS 10, would love to share what's coming.
Thanks, everyone!
@chrisladd congrats
1) given you sync via iCloud does that mean that notes created with this also appear in apple notes?
2) I love the app slapshot. It could be great if the "reminder" function could email me a reminder instead of creating an iOS reminder
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1) nope, unfortunately Apple notes doesn't have an API that I know of—I would have loved to go the other way, to make it easy for folks to import their stock notes.
2) interesting. I'll check it out! One thing I'm always struggling against is simplicity—I feel like that's actually the most important thing to guard in an app like this.
For example, I built a social collaborative system into Better Notes, twice.
In one case, you could tag other @people in notes, and your notes would appear in their stream. In another (more recent) branch, I wrote true collaborative editing, where multiple people could edit the same note at the same time, and it would diff out the changes, and do the right thing. Just like Apple's new feature in iOS 10.
In both cases, the extra interface required to support these features, and the cognitive overload required by the user to understand them, just wasn't worth it.
These are obviously heavier interactions than the one you're mentioning, and there are lots of things that are planned for Better Notes to make it robust. Just pointing out that I'm trying to be very careful about what makes it into shipping versions.
The betas, that's a different story. ;)
@chrisladd sure. the people mention wouldn't be interesting to me. if you check out the slapshot app, it's actually the most simple app you'll ever use. you open it, take a note, then close the app. it will email you the note ~12 hours later. awesome for taking down reminders
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Love the simplicity of the website. I know exactly what it does, no need for fluff or flashy things. Simple and to the point. Downloaded.
Great app! Love the simplicity. I'd really like to see 3D Touch interactions implemented soon. It just calls for a 3D Touch on a note to swipe it up for quick actions, like deleting.
@cezar_capacle nice idea!
you know, in an early version of Better Notes (back when it was called "SFN" for "Simple @#$ing Notes") you would swipe the notes off the screen to archive them, but it made the app too complicated.
I'll play around with it!
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This is the notes app whose time has come. Ive been hopping between Evernote and onedrive and headaches. Bless you for plain text notes and simplicity, @chrisladd! Would love to beta the desktop.
Looks really interesting. I'm a massive Evernote user, and use hashtags extensively, but of course I have to go back after the fact to add them. This sounds much better. Downloading it now.
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