Re:Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
by pjungwir on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:55PM
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People don't seem to like your names, and perhaps the names do need more work, but I wanted to commend you for trying. Whenever I see something named "Group" I cringe a little, because it is so abstract and meaning-free. It is barely better than names like "Thing" and "Entity". So I appreciate your attempt to be more concrete and creative!
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Re:Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
by throwaway55523 on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:35PM
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This is such an important point. I'm living with a generic "group" feature in a SaaS app and it's a nightmare. It's been used by numerous clients for totally different things. These are the weeds that will choke your garden.
Re:Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
by cyberferret on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @08:42PM
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...or they will be the very thing that frees up your users to use them in creative ways without feeling hemmed in to a particular mindset.
We have the concept of 'tags' in our app, which are used by our users to delineate anything from company departments, social groups, locations, age bands etc. - basically anything they see fit. It saves us creating a mess of drop downs to try and cater for all edge cases, and they feel the freedom to think of them however they like.
Re:Show HN: Kobble – Notes app that saves directly to GitHub
by kobble on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:30PM
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I'm one of the devs on Kobble. There was debate about the names - it's not easy. 'channel' seems good, it's used by Slack also, and one of our channels is similar. 'track' however, is another story. It's really a tree or folder structure.