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Nice, but as others pointed out, this uses a webview to render the underlying text. My note-taking app, Plume[1] is written in Qt C++ and QML, without resorting to webview, rather, rendering using my own custom QML components. Plume's model is written in C++ while the view in QML, allowing for a very performant (benchmarks on the website) yet fluid experience with beautiful animations.

[1] https://www.get-plume.com/

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Your note-taking app is not released. While I appreciate that I can download and self compile the premium version of your other Notes app (for some reason my build turns out to be a glitchy buggy mess. That's probably QT being QT), Plume is not released, so is not an alternative to anything.

1. Mind opening a new issue on GitHub? Would love to take a look.

2. Fair. The release is just around the corner (2 month-ish). I can send you an alpha version soon if you'd like.

1. That was months ago and i have also had some problems with qt6 version of qBittorrent on that system. 2. I will wait. It really looks promising. As long as you can disable that huge first capital leter, or make it only 2 lines high.

Thanks! The Drop Cap is optional. And yes, it adjusts based on the number of lines being rendered. Here, I've created a recording for you (the Kanban a little buggy since it's still work-in-progress): https://www.loom.com/share/b40009316f6b420b9ece15a1f99e987c

Seen you pop up multiple times in a variety of threads here mentioning your app.

My initial thought now is it’s starting to feel spammy. Might wanna lay off a bit

I would lay off if I saw my comments get downvoted, but they always get upvoted (many times to the top). Many people reply that they've never heard of it and eager to try it out. I never spam, I always reply to comments/submissions that have direct relevance to my app. Either when speaking about the same category (note-taking apps) or discussing different GUI frameworks. Plus, the quite large influx of people signing up for the wait list shows me it's a net positive.

EDIT: I see people have been downvoting the parent comment since you posted this, so I'm getting the hint. Thanks for letting me know, everybody. I'll comment less frequently in that manner.

Your net positive is not HN's net positive. There could very well be a 100 annoyed readers for every sign-up to your waiting list.

I'm not judging you, nor saying you shouldn't post about your app anymore. This is just a general observation that applies to all online marketing.

But I do want to make this observatioj which applies to all online marketing:

I've been very sensitive to the upvotes my posts get. I don't think any of my comments have been negatively downvoted. Doesn't it seem like a fair measure?

I also always reply when I have something relevant to say, related to the conversation. Specifically, in this thread, this note-taking app (VNote) is built using Qt C++. Same tech stack as my note-taking app (Plume). So I think it's very relevant to share another app built with the same tech stack but offer a more performant/advanced way of rendering the underlying markdown/plaintext without using webviews.

I just tagged you as annoying spam.

See my edit above - I've got the hint and will change this way of posting.

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