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Comment by ericzawo | Hacker News Reader

Love this. I am an Apple Notes absolutist (see: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FY1rZvNWIAAIRzs.jpg). I have tried Evernote, Workflowy, Dynalist, Notion over the years for marrying personal / professional worlds but always (always!!) come back to Notes.

I have dreamed of the ability to have a Notes web app with custom CSS for years and a few other features.

Good luck with this project I'll be watching closely

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I'm curious — as someone who's had a hard time with Notes' maybe... lack of features and less-than-friendly formatting IMHO (no Markdown, unconventional keyboard shortcuts, layout formatting quirks...) — what about Apple Notes appeals to you more than other popular tools? I feel I may be missing something :)

Just works: fast to load, works offline, I don’t have to think about sync

Just notes: It’s not trying to be a programmable networked knowledge engine or a no code app builder or a toaster.

Not ugly: You can technically change fonts and crap but it uses clean system styles out of the box, so even as a font snob I don’t get distracted changing formatting instead of writing.

Free, or at least really cheap if you have a lot of stuff in iCloud

Fair points! Thanks for sharing that :)

Anki doesn't belong there though.

I've run through a similar thing in the image shown. As someone who recently picked up an MBP I've been loving Apple Notes.

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