I'm also a big fan of using standard notepad programs (this, TextEdit on OS X) but struggle to find a good program for mobile note taking. Any suggestions for iOS or Android?
I use Notebooks[1] on iOS. The big draw of this application for me is the ability to synchronize via WebDAV. I do not want to store my notes on any 3rd party server, but want to be able to access them on mobile devices and this is the compromise that I found.
On Mac OS X, I use nvALT[2] setup to use the same directory.
The directory itself is inside EncFS filesystem, which is mounted over cyphertext directory inside Dropbox so there is continuous encrypted sync as well.
But it's different from Blank Slate in that it doesn't allow for saving quickly (I make a PDF or take a screen shot if I need what I write for later referencing).
looks like Blank Slate can also do that (notes start as private but you can "publish" them, giving you a public URL). Other cool things about this one are that it is open source (https://github.com/tomasienrbc/notes) and that there are extensions, for instance to turn your note into a Google Doc. It also works with markdown so you can make bulleted lists and such.
Use "control" not the Mac key sorry! Are you windows? What browser? I don't have the ability to test on Windows or IE and neither does my co-creator (who posted the link).
It would be really nice if the new services commonly showcased on "Show HN" would take the time to correctly implement HTTPS. In fact, since my browser is set to strict-ssl enforcement, I cannot load the webpage at all.
It's not a good mobile experience yet. It uses almost exclusively native functionality to the <textarea> element without modification and that just sucks in basically all mobile browsers. I've been thinking about the best way to sustain a solid mobile version, I'll crack that code eventually.
A bit off topic but pertains to your question:
I made an iOS app with Parse.com for my backend[1]. Should I worry about others breaking in to my user's info? What can I do to protect their data?
This is a poisonous attitude to have with regards to the security of applications that you built. I hope that you take these claims seriously. Otherwise, I have no desire to use anything that you have built.
I took the claims seriously and fixed the problems. I take people being a self aggrandizing jerk on a show HN just as seriously. I certainly may deserve shit but the OP my co-collaborator on the project certainly does not, nor does anyone who comes here to share their projects. Helpful criticism and critique is what we come here for. We can get crapped on needlessly anywhere else on the Internet
Supporting Firefox and IE are decisions. I choose not to do it until something I've built had had consistent usage for a few months. Then I spend the time and support them but it's a pain. I test on chrome and safari web and mobile (blankslate is not a good mobile experience mind you). I'll jump in and fix the known Firefox layout weirdness soon but it's not laziness, it's a choice. Instead of doing that I built a google docs integration and PDF converter, I felt that was more worthwhile. You don't, that's fine.
As for the commenter saying he hacks my stuff, he has told me the problems and I appreciate it as I always do. He's always been a dick about it for some reason but that's his prerogative. I hope he keeps hacking what he thinks of as my projects (almost everything he's hacked before was something I was either re-coding or didn't code at all).
This is a choice, sure, but it's a choice to be lazy, at the expense of 10-20% (depending on your source) of users. It's probably higher still for a technical audience, which effectively removes IE and boosts Firefox through anti-google users.
But I think it might still be a way to "discourage" them from being the same lazy next time or be unconcerned about their users' security (as the other user pointed out). IMO, public shaming, as a concept, works.
That is pretentious thinking because to begin with it's really none of our business whether OP is lazy or diligent. The role expected of other HNers in a show HN post is to consume the work and provide some feedback. Not to dig deep and make assumptions about the OP's character without even knowing him.
Hence my suggestion, keep it short:
Example:
"There's a bug on the contact page."
Instead of
"There are so many bugs in this application, I can't believe anyone would put it on the open Internet. It is just asking to be exploited."
Each of us is an individual human being and none of us knows any better how to behave or live life than the stranger on the other end, especially after most of the details are stripped as we are communicating through a thin layer of text, much of reality is lost in translation here.
>> "to begin with it's really none of our business whether OP is lazy or diligent"
- Security is everyone's business. And people WILL criticize sloppy work in real life.
IMO, as a user and as a developer, both the examples you've written would be fine by me. In fact even the second one seems polite to me, when compared to the reviews I have seen for bad apps. :).
I don't think it's gratuitous negativity. I think the response is gratuitous sensitivity. My comment communicated that (1) it doesn't work on Firefox, (2) this is an increasingly common problem, and (3) it frustrates me.
Review the rules. I don't think my comment violated them and I think the response to my comment is an indicator that people have thinner skins every day.
