Show HN: My Thursday-afternoon project: Notey

Could you perhaps drop the "do you really wanna delete the note?" dialog?

I'd prefer if you just deleted the note and gave me an instant way of getting it back (if I made a mistake).

Similar to how you delete emails in Gmail: it moves them to Trash and then announces "the e-mail's been deleted, click here to undo".

Other than that, I really like it.

YALF - Yet another login form

I think of 100 cool things to do with this, which merely means you've done a good job putting it together.

One little nit-pick which is more just a technical note is that you shouldn't plop the same javascript into the note elements for each note. The note div (and all siblings there of) should share the same code and event listener using their position in the dom or their ID to identify them.

It doesn't necessarily change the functionality but one thing I've learned in working with large web applications with a lot of javascript is the least you have embedded into the page, the better.

To OSX users I highly recommend a note taking application called Notational Velocity. If you have a simplenote account you may use it to centrally store (optionally encrypted) the notes database in the cloud.

Interface is spot on. Very keyboard oriented and hacker friendly.

Notation Velocity: http://notational.net/ / http://github.com/scrod/nv

I wrote something like this a few months ago, with the idea being that the OSX dashboard stickies could be replaced with something synced remotely and shared with other people. I got it to the point where the dashboard (or web interface) would sync, but I didn't polish the UI enough to make it presentable. Worth looking into if you want to keep developing this.

why do you need an email address?

Also, it would be cool to be able to just start adding notes to a blank page without signing up - then have the option to sign up and save it.

Nice app though :)

Cool little app. Check formatting on long notes-- I notice that if the note text exceeds the box, text gets hidden under the save button while typing. Also, after closing a long note, the box does not expand to accomodate a long note, and the text spills across the boundary of the note box.

Looks nice. I've noticed that sometimes when I click to create a new note a previously created note gets the loading gif and a new note is not created. When I click again, a new note is created. I'm using Chrome 5.0.342.5 dev on Windows.

The link to set up a dummy account sent me back to the login screen with now way to login. Or does the dummy account link just make me dumb?

On another note, I noticed (through my awesome skills of deduction) that you're using heroku. How are you finding that? Is it easy to use?

That's awesome. I was thinking about the same thing yesterday! My only feature request would be sharing between multiple users.

very cool app, I just don't know if I'd keep my window open (in my slew of open tabs) and be able to find it again, to the point where its useful.