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Working on an Apple Notes clone, but everything is a local Markdown file. Currently free, macOS (Silicon + Intel) and Windows. Has tags and priorities, can display many scientific syntaxes (mhchem, most TeX / LaTeX stuff, Excalidraw, PlantUML, Graphviz / DOT, Vega-Lite, and actual Markdown footnotes). Can show notes in vertical lanes like JIRA does. Free iCloud sync too. Still early alpha.
https://notesplus.io
what you said has nothing to do with what i said.. are you even a real human?
i meant that it's sad people blindly follow narratives instead of looking into the issue itself.
No, he is correct! Hackernews is one of these platform without a negative-feedback-channel, and a very opinionated community, which is a serious problem. Especially when the post itself is a bizarre opinion, not a clear fact.
This post is probably just another part of the campaign against him.
Musk itself said he's not an engineer.
Thanks mate, feels good to read this! The sentence "The moderators don't allow any discourse that challenges the approved narrative." should be printed in history books, it explains so well how political discourse happens (or not happens) these days. Brilliant!
Working on an Apple Notes clone, but everything is a local Markdown file.
Currently free, macOS (Silicon + Intel) and Windows. Has tags and priorities, can display many scientific syntaxes (mhchem, most TeX / LaTeX stuff, Excalidraw, PlantUML, Graphviz / DOT, Vega-Lite, and actual Markdown footnotes). Can show notes in vertical lanes like JIRA does. Free iCloud sync too. Still early alpha.
https://notesplus.io
Perfect explanaition! I see this not only in politics, but also in simple tech or niche fields I'm very familiar with, sometimes even medical things I have to deal with for 20 years: If it doesnt fit the (uneducated) mods' view, it will get downvoted or (shadow)banned. Resulting in bizarre threads with 40k upvotes, but no actual answers on the open question, because the answers have been removed. Totally nuts.
Yes, yes, yes! I'm so happy to see this trending on Hackernews! Reddit has been an echochamber for simple, naive opinions, and people who avoid going deep into the problems of the world. Radical censorship by the mob.
In my experience, literally every thread or comment that even just questions the "big narrative", the opinion of the masses, is downvoted, banned or even deleted by mods or the mob.
Example: Germany is breaking apart politically due to the uncontrolled mass immigration topic, resulting in landslide wins of a far-right political party. I want to hear opinions of the voters, the protesters, the undecided, of everybody regadless of their position, but somehow, you will not find their voices on reddit. Like they dont exist.
Working on an Apple Notes clone, but everything is a local Markdown file.
Still in development, started as a hobby summer project for Second Brain people and Markdown hoarders like me. Goal is to be able to read any form of files. I worked with Notes, Obsidian, Bear and Typora before and they all didnt even come close to what I personally wanted, so that's where the project idea comes from.
I'm struggling with the extremely different feedback from the internet: Some niches give excellent reviews, some literally destroyed it. Some days are fun, some make me think if i should cancel this whole thing.
https://notesplus.io
Thank tarwin! The app saves metadata like priorities, tags and rank/orders, pin status, favorite status (for files) and sorting (for folders) inside the app itself, technically in ONE simple .json in the app's macOS data folder (might have different locations on Intel and Apple silicon macs):
~/Library/Application Support/.... .notesplus/notes-metadata.json
It's a simple key-value JSON, simply a list of every file, and the according prio, tags, etc. (if set). The notes themselves are not touched and there are NOT any .files or so.
Regarding speed: To be honest i rebuild the app multiple times from scratch, every single time for performance reasons. ;)
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sliqqq on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @07:17PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://notesplus.io/
tldr: clone of Apple Notes, but every note is a local Markdown file.Hi, I used a summer of unemployment to actually finalize a hobby project, a literal clone of Apple's Notes, with open access to the filesystem, meaning each note is just a markdown file. Then implemented renderers for Excalidraw, Latex, AsciiMath, mermaid diagrams, PlantUML, Graphviz, Vega Lite, mhchem and footnotes (a feature...
damn, i didnt know that! that's crazy
haha, take my upvote just for the sex.php alone ;)
Everybody who's not totally limited in their mindsets. Twitter/X is uncensored. I think open minds who are hungry for the raw, real truth prefer such platform, rather than one that's regulated by one political party of one particular country.
Why? X is one of the rare uncensored publishing / communication networks we have. Do you prefer living in a highly regulated, censored pre-gated world where information is hidden if somebody "feels offended" by it or state / ngo actors dont want something to go public?
The brainwashing against free, open, uncensored and community-corrected platforms is crazy.
Keep in mind that the rest of the world does not even come close to US salaries. Buying a mac in most countries in the world means giving away multiple monthly salaries. Even in Germany, one of the richest countries in the world, a simple 16" Mac goes way way beyong the average salary.
Still going strong on a 2019 Intel MacBook, just for economic reasons.
WARNING! The link they posted on this Gitlab issue is a scam redirect loop, leading to something that uBlock rates as malicious. Also the /contact URL is not reachable, the entire .li of annas archive seems to be a scam.
I'm writing this 2 days after this hackernews post went viral, it might be that somebody changed the links in between.
100% agreed! Reality is, many german businesses are just flying under the radar, as they simply dont want or cannot deal with all the tax crazyness and bureaucracy.
German here. And this is just the standardized SETUP! Wait until you have an edge case or a complicated tax situation, or - dare you - you want to work from a different country.
Germany feels like the government tries to make everything as hard and complicated as possible, to block ANY steps forward. It feels like organized sabotage to me.
Worth 29 billion by the way. The impact of Cursor on the tech world is so huge it's hard to even calculate. Maybe hackernews is totally overrated as a "launch tool".
Friendly reminder: Some nuclear silo facilities in the US still use 3,5" diskettes. Some highly complex system are by architecture, security issues or by incompetence still stuck in decades old tech. We as engineers oftentimes have to work with that, and keep the system running, if we like it or not.
You cannot refactor an battlecarrier designed in 1979 so easily ;)
Meanwhile, we here in Europe move our stacks over to other continents or at least ourside of the EU to workaround the crazy EU regulation nonsense ;)
We live in crazy times my friends...
love this! and the masses of upvotes show how important this topic is. let's all take action and get social
Bro i feel you so much! i am developing an app aimed at Intel Macs, but i cannot even publish it, because you need a Silicon mac to use the Apple Developer Program. It's so unbelievable brainless. The market still holds 10-20% intel devices, especially outside the US and in some high-end environments, where 128GB RAM machines cannot easily be replaced with a silicon mac.
Sometimes it feels like Apple has no clue how their users actually work and what the industry needs.
Good idea, but a hard dealbreaker issue: clicking "Yes, totally" or "Hell no" is never accepted, as it always returns "Couldn't verify you're human — please try again.". Clicking a country in the list will also show a white page. But keep going, you have built something useful here my friend ;)