Hot Notes
Productivity
note search
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How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Design: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Matching is instant and fast
From 1 comment
Hello, This allows you to search for and open your Apple Notes. Matching is instant, so much faster than Spotlight or the built in Notes search. I wrote a post about some of the…
emadda on HN
Objections
Bundling a whole terminal emulator seems excessive for simple search
From 2 comments
Why is this distributed as a modified version of the Ghostty terminal emulator bundled with the `fzy` utility? That's quite strange to me. You can run Swift that interacts with…
rafram on HNI didn't realize that it was proprietary, but that still doesn't really explain bundling an entire terminal emulator for something this simple... (license.md should include the…
rafram on HN
App size and RAM use are heavy compared to alternatives like Alfred
From 1 comment
Alfred, which lets me fuzzy search pretty much anything on my computer, comes in at a whopping 17.1 MB. 80 MB is OK, but standards have definitely been changed due to Electron.
rafram on HN
Distributed as proprietary software
From 1 comment
https://github.com/emadda/hot-notes/blob/main/license.md Proprietary software „Hot Notes is a fully functioning, time-unlimited free trial, with the occasional message to buy a…
dpfu on HN
Questions
Why not a plain Swift command-line tool that runs in any terminal
From 1 comment
Why is this distributed as a modified version of the Ghostty terminal emulator bundled with the `fzy` utility? That's quite strange to me. You can run Swift that interacts with…
rafram on HN
Are bundled MIT licenses for Ghostty and fzy included sufficiently
From 1 comment
I didn't realize that it was proprietary, but that still doesn't really explain bundling an entire terminal emulator for something this simple... (license.md should include the…
rafram on HN
Alternatives named
Alfred
From 1 comment
Alfred, which lets me fuzzy search pretty much anything on my computer, comes in at a whopping 17.1 MB. 80 MB is OK, but standards have definitely been changed due to Electron.
rafram on HN
Spotlight
From 1 comment
Hello, This allows you to search for and open your Apple Notes. Matching is instant, so much faster than Spotlight or the built in Notes search. I wrote a post about some of the…
emadda on HN