Re:Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
by kobble on Monday May 08, 2017 @03:53AM
(#14289938)
Public and private repos are available now.
Re:Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
by kobble on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @01:27PM
(#14205073)
As you mention, a track is like a project. It's a tree of items, and the items can be markdown, presentations, links, etc.
Channels are for organizing tracks. Everything in Kobble can be shared. So say you make a track for some project and want to share it. Another user can add your track to a channel to follow it.
It's similar to sharing in YouTube or Spotify, except that instead of grouping videos or songs in channels, you're grouping tracks.
The design is neat (I generally like dark themes) although the fading animations got a bit annoying after a few minutes using it. Some of the dialogs could do with supporting common shortcuts (e.g. enter to create a new track, escape to close the dialogs). Sometimes I managed to click outside of the presentation view without realising, and then left/right arrow keys stopped working. Sometimes I wasn't sure where to find certain functions (e.g. I looked for "Edit" on a presentation item on the context menu, but then realised I had to click it and then click the pencil icon). I couldn't get the Share functionality to work, and wasn't sure why it was in its own context menu with no other items.
I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the tracks/channels distinction. I can understand creating a project to store presentations (items) in, but why is there another level in Kobble?