dougdimmadome

nice work.

I can definitely see a use for this already

> Many note-taking apps today single-paged have high-think-threshold [...] You have to think before you write in them, so not a good option for quick ideas.

Yes. Very much so. I often resort to pen and paper because I want to get down a more free form idea and I often feel very constrained by a note taking platform. I feel like this one is different in that way.

Is there an easy way to embed something from one pane into another? When I have a "drawing" pane I can export the image to svg or png and then import on the "text" pane, but I would love to just send the image over the wall with one click. Maybe its already in there and I'm missing it?

I live in rural Ireland, and I've heard more than one story about a farmer who discovered some archeological find on their land and just plowed over it to avoid the hassle.

"I was born in 200 log cabins"

I feel like this is another "random wikipedia article" post.

Might I suggest adding Mo Money

This thing is beautiful. Makes me want to do something like this but I dont have the time or skill or a 3d printer

Though it doesn't show today, this 3D model of the solar system is great

https://codepen.io/juliangarnier/pen/krNqZO

I like this. It really helps illustrate that how long it takes to get to Mars can vary hugely depending on when you leave Earth.

My kids learned in school (during the 5 minutes of the year they spent talking about the solar system) that Venus is closer to Earth than Mars, but I had to use a diagram like this to explain that that's only sometimes true

kind of limiting that you can only go back and forward in time one month though. I would love a slider, a play button

there's always someone for whom it doesn't

I get your argument but I see real value here.

Texting yourself is an imperfect solution to the problem. Note taking apps like obsidian also have "labor" in that you have to pick a location for your note, maybe navigate a folder structure etc. This is a "stream" of notes which is closer to how some of us work. I sort of want my reminders to disappear upwards into the past and not clog my interface, but still be searchable.

I've been look for exactly this! (or planning to build it)

I abuse the telegram "Saved" channel to send myself thoughts, notes, reminders, pics, etc as if I'm chatting to the me who's back at his desk.

I wanted to get away from that and not rely on telegram.

Unfortunately I'm an android user so I'll probably have to keep using Telegram for the time being. Is there an android client in the works?

Nothing ever matches the hype. That's what hype is.

Literally short for hyperbole which means "exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally."

obsidian came out 2020 and I built my version before 2017. also the initial version was on Windows Phone and I migrated to android later

A few I can think of

- Note taking app that stores all data as markdown on Dropbox

- When I was getting married I created a photo upload site with a flickr backend where people could bulk upload all of the photos they took of our wedding, and as a result we got thousands of photos without needing to chase people up for memory cards etc.

- Every year I organise Secret Santa for all of my family and my wife's family through a PHP web app I wrote.

> My most used tool I have is a note taking web app that automatically saves markdown files to S3. The most important feature I added was a little button that would automatically make a note for the current day, and put it in the daily notes folder, all sorted and organized. I also have full text search which is very helpful for finding old notes.

I have a very similar thing, mine uses a dropbox folder as a backend so I can easily browse on laptop and use whatever. I like the daily notes idea though!

everyone I know has a bag of "bag for life" bags, and yes sometimes you forget to bring them and you end up buying more. but they're definitely a net good. the amount of bags sold to people who forgot theirs is orders of magnitude than the number of bags that would be handed out when they were free.

I was shocked recently when I visited a shop in another european country and they had regular non-reusable bags, it seemed so primitive!

> Many are barely 'reusable', the are crap and don't get used again an get thrown out

there are thinner plastic ones, but even the lightest "reusable" bags we have last for months if not years. unless you're buying pineapples and throwing stars every time you shop they should last you a while.

In Ireland a few years ago a plastic bag levy was introduced. If you want a plastic bag at the checkout, you have to pay 5c for each one.

Now everyone has reusable shopping bags they bring to the stores.

The bags are much more rugged than single use plastic bags or paper, and reuse is better than recycling.

However, I think shopping bags are probably not the intended market for this stuff, and the need is more to replace the plastic wrapping that covers food. There have been efforts here and in the UK to reduce the amount of packaging in the first place but there will continue to be places where we still need it for a while

> Recipes: Aether charged chicken wings

Sign me up

me too =)

...and, fun fact, the "porgs" only exist because the island is also a wildlife refuge and home to thousands of birds who happily walked across the set during takes, so they had to be CGI'ed out.

Skellig Michael is not a Cathedral by any stretch of the imagination. It is a cluster of stone beehive huts on an island. It should be recognisable to most people these days as the place Luke Skywalker was hanging out in the new Star Wars sequels, as the movies used it as a filming location in 2015 and 2017.

It's a UNESCO world heritage site and a huge tourist attraction long before Star Wars, but it is definitely not a Cathedral.

I was in a similar situation last month. Not quite 1000s of pages but close to 100. Just enough to make typing them out seem like too much work.

I found an app online (I wont even name it) which promised incredibly accurate handwriting transcription. Signed up and found it was true, but they were just sending images directly to chatGPT and returning the result and then charging a fee on top.

I started working on an open source version. It took me only a few hours and I'm sure anyone else could pull it together. used chatGPT example code to connect to API and send an image with a prompt along the lines of "please transcribe the text in this image and return only that, nothing else". even with that instruction it still sometimes prefaces with "sure! I can do that.", which I think is the AI equivalent of Homer Simpson writing "ok" in the "please leave this section blank" part of the form. Anyhoo, I had a basic job queue written, pull in images in order of file creation date and fire them off, append the text to a text file after. There was some cleanup of the file required (weird line breaks) but it saved me days of typing.

You still need a chatGPT API key for it but it does take a good bit of the work out.

At the moment I'm investigating using a free local model. LLava is just as accurate but takes longer than sending it to ChatGPT. but if you were worried about burning credits it would be the way to go.