Show HN: Flomo – a minimal note-taking tool based on zettelkasten method
flomoapp.com
flomoapp.com
Anyway, I found it eventually: https://help.flomo.app/about-pro/flomo-pro
* Smooth input and variants of input interface, you can use iOS share, shortcuts, Mac app, browser plugins from the community.
* Basic styling but not as much as Markdown. Enough for simple requirements.
* I have collected a lot logs memos from reading book, just grab the phone and put the notes in, make some hashtag.
* Also using the review method, not quite sure if there is a spaced repetition method baked in, but quite surprising to see some old memo popped up
* The content from flomo101 is really nice, showing methods about organizing notes and hashtags, most importantly it tells me how to think using those memos that I collected.
Thanks a lot for the team and product.
* Good job integrating with WeChat, which significantly lowers the inertia of note-taking for many Chinese users.
* Google Keep is similar but it doesn't have digest/reminder and link-to-other-notes, which are only accessible in the flomo PRO tier.
I haven't used note-taking apps extensively, I use Google Docs to write things done (not exactly 'note-taking') most of the time. What I've noticed is that I frequently need to link to other docs when I'm only mentioning a high-level overview in my current doc. Some examples: * When I'm writing a design doc, I need to reference docs that record the severity and symptoms of the problems that I'm solving with my design, docs in the past that tried solving the same problems, etc. * When I'm writing an overview for other readers or just for personal organization, it goes without saying that I'll make references to existing docs.
Digest/Reminder: I think it'll be a killer feature of any card/snippet-based note-taking app! Too often, brief notes are jot down and left to rot. Some notes are intended for that - I wrote it down just to get it out of my immediate working memory, not that I intend to do it in the near future. But for some notes, I do actually want to be reminded to organize (i.e., create a personal and internal structure over) them, esp. for reading notes. WeChat isn't frequently used outside of Asia(?), but a thoughtful and automated digest sent through email or phone notification could achieve something similar.
The documentation in Mandarin has more advice on philosophy and practice of note-taking. I like this one: https://help.flomoapp.com/thinking/future.html
Some quotes from iPhone machine translation:
> Productivity experts provide only ideas on "how to write better productivity articles", not your real work/life environment. So these suggestions are not necessarily in line with your real world.
> There is a "golf" course, but no "golf club" course. Cue is just a tool. What you really need to learn is how to play golf skillfully. You should not sacrifice the cost. Tiger Woods uses a pair of worn-out second-hand clubs, which is also beyond the reach of ordinary people.
> So I don't care about the tools, but about the methodology behind using them. But most companies only have tool training and no process training. Similarly, many people are lost in looking for new tools instead of building their own workflow framework.
> Focus on the method first, not the tool itself. When you have a way, the trade-offs of tools will be clear.
Overall my critique is that the landing page/site posted here is very separate from the pages describing features. It’s only because another commenter mentioned “pro pricing” that I noticed you offer sync to Notion! For me, Sync to Notion takes this from a “won’t consider” to a “may sign up”. You should merge landing page and the “help” content into a single easily navigable website.
This kind of personal note taking tool is very niche - power features matter here; there are a ton of simple note takers. If you deliberately avoid having the features/complexity of Bear, Notion, Roam, you still need to differentiate from Notational Velocity or Zim. Lean into how being a SaaS can benefit the user. Sync is a great example.