61 points by passiflora9610 days ago | 32 comments
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Congratulations on shipping your app! I like the design and the concept of avoiding forced hierarchy like folders etc. I think this concept is worth building on even more. For example do users really need a rigid hierarchy like post-it vs A4? What would happen if I would be able to click anywhere on the canvas and immediately write down the thought (just like in MS OneNote) and format this text after writing it down - give it a distinct background to make it that physical note feel? Personally I'd be happy as it would give more freedom. Now that experience is a bit broken - I can click anywhere on the canvas to create a post-it, but inside of it I need to click on the top row to even start writing. I hope this quick opinion will be useful/inspiring for you.
The UI animations are impressive; they are cute and have a nice vibe.
However, I discovered one bug. I am Korean, and when I write a memo in Korean on a sticker and press Enter, two notepads appear. This is a very familiar bug to me.
I love this! Stacking notes is the way my favorite English teacher taught us to write essays and very few apps have this functionality. And one I did find, StorySkeleton, hasn't been available for years: https://www.cultofmac.com/news/storyskeleton-an-index-card-s...
Stacking cards for essays is smart because it forces you to think about structure before you write a word. We tried building something similar years back and the hard part wasn't the UI, it was making reordering feel instant. Curious how you handled that.
Does stacking actually scale though? Index cards work because you can only fit so many on a corkboard before it becomes noise. Curious what happens once you've got a hundred stacked notes deep into a novel draft.
Looks cool, but I can't sign up. I enter my email and password, and I see the error "Google sign-in isn't enabled. Turn it on in Firebase Console...". But I'm not trying to use Google sign in.
Nice work! The canvas interface looks clean and intuitive. I especially like the stacks and zones concept. Do you have plans to add a mobile app or sync across devices?
It already has a sync across device feature if you sign in and also works on mobile if you download it through the mobile browser as a PWA. But I still dont have plans on making an actual mobile version that can be downloadable from the app store, but im not sure.
Been using stacks daily for a few weeks now, sync is solid, barely notice it happening. Only gotcha: zones get finicky once a canvas has 50+ cards, dragging between them sometimes drops the card outside the zone boundary and you have to nudge it back in.
As a notetaker who likes new apps, but has tried them all, I was impressed by this.
Your version reminds me of OneNote when it was new and good and not horrible. Being able to place your notes where you want them is such a radical concept.
The features you have are simple and the idea of stacking notes is really cool and don't think I've seen that done before.
I really like this! I'm not sure I can fully commit yet, though, because I don't want to invest in a new app without some assurances:
- Is this for the long run (I know you can't know, but I'd like to hear you out)
- Will it transform to a paid service?
- Will I always (at least before stopping the service or putting it behind a paywall) be able to export the content to store it myself, offline, so I own the data?
- Is it open source?
- Will I be able to sync it myself with an external provider?
- Who are you? Why should I trust you? There's no info whatsoever anywhere, not a contact, not a privacy policy, a legal note.
- Is the content encrypted?
I would really like to put my work notes in a place like this, it really looks great, but right now, I can't commit to it.
That said. I love this and wish you the best of luck! Maybe sometime I'll be a user :)
Yeah I hear you. I cant really force you to trust me at this stage, but im trying my all to make this as user oriented as possible. I am a solo developer whos taken on this huge project, so there might be some issues that i have overlooked or haven't been aware of yet, since I dont even get a lot of feedback on this app. So i really appreciate you mentioning all this and it really helps.
That being said, I do have long term plans for this and hopefully one day can transform into a freemium product where the core app will always stay free with some paid features. But early adopters will surely have the premium version free always. So i really hope you can invest in it now.
The export content feature will never be paid and I can assure that. Note privacy is a big part for this app. I would have made it fully local if it wasnt for the cross device sync. So you will always own you data no matter if this app becomes paid.
Right now its not open source. I really want to scale this and maybe earn a living out of this one day and have big plans for it if it works out.
You're right on this one, I've added the privacy and terms on the bottom of my landing page. It was accessible through the log in page on google auth before this, but missed the landing page. my fault.
I would really ask you to reconsider using this app, Im all ears at this stage and im continuously trying to improve it according to the user. So I would love to have chat with you. You can email me at passiflorsproductions96@gmai.com
Firebase auth thing trips up lots of shipped apps — you have to explicitly enable each provider in the console, email/password and Google are separate toggles. Worth double checking Firebase console before launch, easy to miss since local dev usually has it on already.
