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attasi··on A Love Letter to Geocities Sites
This is beautiful! GeoCities represented the amazing creativity of the early web. I miss it :(

If anyone would like to create a GeoCities-inspired site of their own using a no-code builder, we got you: https://clovercities.com.

attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Honestly, we haven’t even considered allowing a test drive without an account but the community here has given us some really great opinions in why that is so important. We’re going to discuss this and see if there’s some way we can do that. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this!
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
That _should_ work. If it’s not you’ve encountered a bug that we’ll fix up for you! Let us know support@cloverapp.com.
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
This is something we are constantly exploring. They are in fact the same under the hood but it’s been a tricky UX challenge to provide a seamless and intuitive way to toggle between the two. Always thinking about this though. Have any thoughts on it?
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Would love some details on your device type and what about the app in unbearable. There’s plenty of room for improvement and we’d love to fix up whatever is affecting your experience.
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Hey there, We don’t have block referencing in the same way Roam does it… yet. We allow you to copy a block link and paste it which will create a link to the block with text preview. We hope to add improved support for this soon.

A 75k page import is quite the load. We have bulk markdown import but that may test its limits. How would you ideally perform that and where are you importing from?

attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Feel free to steal them! I can send you the React components if helpful :)
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Thanks Ian!
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Thanks for the suggestions! Always pushing to move from "good to great." Love the idea of multiple notes per event.
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Thanks for sharing. We do feel a need to provide Android support even for personal use cases, so we're working on that. Completely agree that it's critical for teams, too.

Transitioning infinite space on mobile works to varying degrees depending on the content. Treating the documents like editable maps works relatively well especially for the consumption experience. We're iterating on some ideas on how to improve editing there as well. We've seen some tools completely ignore coordinates and place everything in one scrolling section, but we feel that is very detrimental to the mental model you construct of your documents and aspire to maintain space while still providing a smooth UX.

attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Oh, I should have mentioned labels were Pro only. Sorry about that. We should probably message in the app when trying to do it as well. Good call.

Auto-placing pages is a pretty cool idea! We were considering making the Page Tree an opt-in area where you could just place pages you really need to build up in there and let you access everything else from the All Pages section.

attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Appreciate that, thanks! Our collaboration model is similar to that of Notion under the hood. It's operation based and resolves conflicts using a last-edit-wins on a granular level.
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Oh cool! I haven't tried Mindscope, but it does look similar. Nice work!
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Hmmm… We haven't looked into that, but it would be pretty neat!
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Just understand that we have a "No Oddjob" rule :)
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Hey, subscriptions aren't for everyone. We do offer a free plan with up to 1,000 blocks, so if you are diligent about cleaning up work later, you might be able to use it free for a while.
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Hey, thanks for trying it out!

We agree there is plenty of room for improvement with our pen tool. It's an area we're constantly refining. We're hoping to get pressure in there soon.

Surfaces on Daily Notes has been highly debated by the team. On one hand, it would be pretty excellent to us. On the other, it could inhibit other workflows by adding too much cognitive overhead. Because you can create a Surface inline using `[[New Surface Name`, we have pushed this decision off for the time being. Would love your thoughts on how you would like it to work.

Would also love to know what makes a daily driver to-do app for you. Maybe we can work that in. Either way, thanks for all the feedback. It's very helpful!

attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Yes. Clover is a widely used name and we _are_ exploring ways to differentiate that to help our findability. I like the “Clover Notes” suggestion!
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Thanks for the questions and ideas. We do support tags, which you can add inline using the format `#tagname`. This will create a Labels section in your sidebar which will show a list of all pages tagged with that. We've had many feature requests to make this more granular – to show blocks tagged with the labels – which we've been working on but haven't shipped yet. As for Surfaces on Daily Notes: I typically create a new Surface inline from Daily Notes by typing `[[Page Name`. This gives me a clean Surface to work on without messing with everything else going on in my day. It also generates a backlink for you from that Surface back to any days linking to it. Would love to hear if this helps your use cases at all. Thanks!
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Dang, that's a pretty cool idea. We'll look into it!
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
Thanks! I'm curious to know more about how you think :) Why hasn't anything really capture it yet?
attasi··on Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
I agree, desktop is critical. We actually have one you can download here! https://cloverapp.com/download