Notebag
Keyboard-focused note taking app
Notebag has been put to rest as it was starting to influence my life in a way that made me extremely uncomfortable. It has been open sourced under a very liberal license and will henceforth live on GitHub as a free download.
Details can be found in this blog post: https://pretzelhands.com/posts/end-of-notebag
First post-release update that adds many of the most user-requested features and delivers and overall improved experience of the app.
Changes
🔗 Bi-directional links with context. Any link you create will now have a corresponding backlink in the other note. It also has a live-updating view of the closest paragraph for context!
🗃 Note archive. If you have notes you want to get rid of, but not fully delete. Archived notes are fully searchable!
⚡️ Improved navigation. In the note overview, omnibar and archive you can now use the arrow keys to navigate. You can also press Enter in the search field to automatically select the first search result. You can now also press Enter to switch from the note title to the content!
👀 Toggle Dock icon. You can now show/hide the Dock icon based on your preferences. This allows you to Alt/Cmd-Tab to the app like all other ones.
👓 Adjust the font size. There is an new preference that allows you to adjust the editor font size between 10 and 24 pixels. Just in case you want to get up close, or you want have more content on your screen!
🌓 Light/Dark mode shortcut. You can now toggle light or dark mode with a global keyboard shortcut! By default it is Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-L.
🖼 Copy images directly from Notebag. You can select images and paste them straight into Gmail, Imgur, etc.
📋 Copy markdown from your notes. If you select a piece of text from Notebag and copy it, you will get the resulting markdown in your clipboard. Makes for super easy copy-pasting to other Markdown editors.
Notebag has officially been pushed into the wild today and is featured on Product Hunt!
This is the first time I'm showing it to a wider public audience. Both scary and exciting at the same time! We shall see if I've prepared for it enough.
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Hi Richard,
Congratulations !
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Congratulations!
As someone who uses the age old method of a small notebook and pen, I have been looking for something just super simple and quick without too many fancy features.
I shall have to sign up and give it a go!
We are also Launch Twins! (I launched today too, but not on PH just yet) and, as my product is about feedback, I wanted to give some I also learnt today.
At the bottom where you can sign up for a trial, I wasn't sure what would happen.
Does it need my card details, just my email, something else? It actually made my download bar pop up and I paniced I had downloaded something dodgey 😅 until I saw it was called Notebag.Maybe justa small line of what to expect when clicking that trial button? :)
Otherwise, it is looking good!
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Congrats :)
Not quite a month after working on this app as my main focus, it was finally time to put the landing page online. I shared it with little fanfare in my Twitter development thread. It took approximately two hours before the first license was sold via the website!
During a discussion in a Telegram group of my friends I shared a GIF of a work in progress version of Notebag. One of them asked where they could buy since they had given me a lot of ideas and wanted to see them in action. So, jokingly, I sent them a PayPal link.
A few minutes later I received my first money from this app.
Funny how that goes!
After close to a year of dissatisfaction with other note taking apps this was the day I wrote the first code, immortalized in this tweet:
Originally intended to be a note taking app you could show or hide with a global shortcut, it turned out there were a few more pain points I had.
So I got to work.
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