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Re:Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub by lol768 on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @01:13PM (#14204938)
Interesting tool, I like that it works with GitHub and the repo support will be cool to see.

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?

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.