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Oh one hundred percent! That’s definitely part of our vision. Couldn’t have put it across better. So we already have a small pilot of that running with any documents you get from the Desklamp store - these have the multiplayer aspect in the form of public notes. The idea is that if you make useful notebooks like chapter summaries or some insight on a book, you can publish those for all readers of the book to see. Didn’t promote that here because we don’t have licensed content yet but you can check it out on any of the consulting books.

Yup. By the next show HN, I'll be sure to come back with more clarity on this front. This is a solid idea. Allows us to focus on power users.

Thanks a lot! No there'll definitely be export options. As of now there's only a beta version of exporting as a PDF, but LaTeX/Markdown is on the cards. Probably LaTeX so that we can just replace the PDF generation as well.

Yup. In India, all of these are extremely huge deals. We wanted to put up some content on the store and being a team that did well on these exams we thought the easiest way to get some original content up was to use our own notes.

Note making connected to PDFs is abysmal. As far as I know, we're one of the better tools out there. Updating PDFs is a challenge for sure. Constantly updating content is probably better suited for a wiki/notion page though. I'm curious - what kind of PDFs are you dealing with?

Yup that is part of our roadmap!

Very interesting! Definitely sounds like a gap even in the laptop space then. Thanks for the input!

This is definitely our thought process too! The aim is to get you to note things down more / access insights faster so that there's less you're relying on your brain to remember.

This is actually a legitimate concern. Productivity tools are overflowing right now, so the main confusion for us is do we aim to replace your existing notemaking suite or supplement it, For now, why not try out the free beta? Would like to know how/if it works with your workflow.

So the fun thing about the logo is it's also a pencil, the purple makes it slightly less obvious. I'm glad you got that it's a lamp - my aunt saw it and asked me why it is a random triangle. Never thought about the D parallel though, that's neat!

That's a very neat idea! Will look at a few more standards for exporting notes.

Haha thanks! Would be a nice moment to mention our mascot, if we had one. Go Blackbucks?

Thanks a lot! Yes we are definitely enjoying the entrepreneurial journey. I have decided to work on this full time - learning so much! And it's always great to get to work on something that you can actually use personally.

Noted! Do you think the app would work well as is on the iPad if we added free drawing with the pencil in the notebook? We’ve designed the entire interface with a laptop in mind. Very curious how iPad users feel about everything.

Thanks for giving it a try! Yes, the hide sticky note feature should be more visible. Workspace switching is also a good idea!

Your assumption about the metadata is correct! The original file is not tampered with. If you want to share a file with your highlights and annotations, there’s an export button in the hamburger menu on the top left (this UX is really bad, gonna fix this soon). Yeah should rework the guide too.

We have added an export notes as well but it’s in beta because it behaves a little weirdly with the LaTeX. Probably a good idea to export the entire notebook as a LaTeX file.

Thanks a ton for that feedback! I absolutely did not realise how that sounded. We definitely don’t aim to blindside early adopters with a sudden pay-us-or-you-lose-data deadline.

The plan is that anything you do right now you’ll ALWAYS have access to, and at some point (not before December 2022) we begin charging a subscription to begin saving data to new documents. New users post that deadline will have a threshold of documents that they can use the product on for free.

If free and paid tiers are what you absolutely need, please drop me a mail! Would hate to have an early user disappear because we’re still figuring out exact pricing strategies.

Thanks a lot! Super pumped. Yeah we definitely want to improve the experience for researchers. Looking forward to your feedback!

I like the idea! Definitely faced this problem. I've ended up using a variety of different tools before. I've found Canva generally serves my purpose - what's the main value add here over a more general tool like Canva?