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Re:Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made by sillysaurusx on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:22AM (#23515323)
Very minor bug report (which I don’t mind at all): during the signup process on mobile, I clicked “premium subscription” and then pressed the back button. The form was wiped, so I had to re-enter my info.

I imagine many people might give up after that, so I just wanted to mention it.

Another minor bug: when toggling private to public on mobile, the drop down menu doesn’t go away after you press public. It also blocks the save button, so it’s not entirely clear how to save. (I eventually figured it out.)

iPhone 8 on safari, if it helps.

This is impressive work. I was up and running in about two minutes, and I’m thinking about upgrading. https://collectednotes.com/shawwn/sample-note

My only hesitation is that it doesn’t feel like “my” notes. They’re my notes on your platform. And I don’t know whether your platform will die tomorrow. But I try to resist such concerns.

Is there a way to export all my data somehow? Also, some way of adding google analytics?

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Re:Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made by alecrosa on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:27AM (#23515337)
Ah good catch, mobile experience is very MVP, I only focused on the web for desktop use. For mobile iOS native is the way to go I went crazy on the native features :)

Thank you so much!

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Re:Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made by alecrosa on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:29AM (#23515348)
Oh you can download your notes easily under profile. It will send you a .zip file with all your markdown files!

Google Analytics I won’t add. In fact I don’t even use it for the site. I don’t want to track people. But views counts will come soon.

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Re:Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made by sillysaurusx on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:37AM (#23515383)
Well, view counts would work. Cool to hear that I can get the markdown. Is there any way to insert arbitrary html? Then I can put whatever I need.

Maybe as a premium feature under my domain?

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Re:Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made by alecrosa on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:44AM (#23515403)
Will think about that, what kind of things would you put? I don’t want to become a CMS or geo cities :)
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Re:Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made by sillysaurusx on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:55AM (#23515443)
It's mainly to work around bugs in the system. For example:

site: https://www.shawwn.com/thanks

markdown: https://www.shawwn.com/thanks.page

If you "view source" on the markdown page, you'll see:

  Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/theshawwn">@theshawwn</a>
The reason is that [@theshawwn](https://twitter.com/theshawwn) didn't convert into HTML for some reason. I assume the @ character threw it off, and I didn't want to drop what I was doing to figure out why. But there are a million small things like that.

For https://collectednotes.com/shawwn/sample-note, I would put GA into my notes.

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Re:Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made by alecrosa on Sunday June 14, 2020 @02:02AM (#23515470)
It works for me: https://collectednotes.com/blog/twitter-usernames

See markdown: https://collectednotes.com/blog/twitter-usernames.md

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Re:Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made by sillysaurusx on Sunday June 14, 2020 @02:09AM (#23515493)
Yes, your markdown implementation is fine. Pandoc (the one I use) seemed broken. The HTML was a way of working around the problem.

The main reason to let users inject HTML is that they can add features you don't have. GA is one; mathjax is another.

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