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So you normally sit there with a…",{"value":61,"source":54,"evidence":62},"Free plan; a paid pro version of about $9 a month is planned",[63,64,67],{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},{"id":65,"by":58,"text":66},"6478728","Thanks! That's exactly the thinking behind the potentially upcoming pro version, once we'd see that there's basic interest.",{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"6478476","elag","Yet another notetaking app, What about sync across devices; security\u002Fencryption; lock-in? Only ten notes in the free plan. What does this offer over notational velocity or…",[72],{"value":73,"source":54,"evidence":74},"Yahoo BOSS search queries",[75],{"id":76,"by":58,"text":77},"6478341","HN effect, search should be \u003C 500msec normally. It is indeed semantic (POS tagger & chunker), but as mentioned atm this only tries to build Yahoo BOSS queries, which can't OR and…","freemium","unknown",{"praise":81,"objections":109,"requests":173,"questions":209,"alternatives":229},[82,97,105],{"value":83,"source":54,"evidence":84},"Clean, beautiful design",[85,89,93],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"6478636","JoelAnair","This is really cool. The app is beautiful to look at. I find the search useful, particularly being able to pin results to the document. Highlighting a word and getting a list of…",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"6479045","hansy","Quick little nitpick thing, but how do you scroll within the document? I was messing around putting a ton of newlines, but I wasn't sure how to get back to the top of the…",{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"6479295","oakaz","It's amazing. I currently use AIWriter and it's not available on web. Hiro meets all my expectations. Great work. Thanks!",{"value":98,"source":54,"evidence":99},"Pinned search results and synonym lookup are useful",[100,101],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"6478691","zwieback","I like it but wouldn't pay for it. The search sidebar is appealing with the pin-it icons. Search results were pretty good if a bit generic. Doesn't seem to be very semantic but…",{"value":106,"source":54,"evidence":107},"Works as a web notes app comparable to OneNote, simpler",[108],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},[110,123,138,153,168],{"value":111,"source":54,"evidence":112},"Search results are weak, slow, or not really semantic",[113,117,118,122],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"6478299","volaski","good idea in theory, but the search is \"ridiculously\" slow. Not to mention the fact that it doesn't work after the first search. Also, you're using the term \"semantic\" wrong.",{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"6478307","nostromo","I quite like the notes aspect. Good job! The search feature is a total miss for me however. What problem is it solving? I already have Google, I don't need subpar search built…",{"id":76,"by":58,"text":77},{"value":124,"source":54,"evidence":125},"Sending note text to third parties raises privacy concerns",[126,130,134],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"6478240","Terretta","This is a cool idea and the execution is slick too, but I'd like to know more about anonymity and privacy of both content and search results. I'm talking about both the privacy…",{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"6478383","goshx","I don't get it. It seems like a very basic version of evernote posting everything that I write somewhere else. I am not comfortable with my text going to other unknown places.",{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"6478824","pnathan","(1) who owns this content? (2) can this be exported? (3) is this publically searchable? 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No choice for me.",{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"6479106","rattray","some feedback (most of it minor): - the text cursor seems oddly tall to me... - shift-tab should dedent, not indent - the searching google thing.. is weird. I don't get it. - not…",{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},"6478963","RaphiePS","I've tried it and I really like it! However, I don't have internet while in class, so the online requirement is a bit of a dealbreaker.",{"value":169,"source":54,"evidence":170},"Paid price seems too high for the free plan's limits",[171,172],{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},[174,179,186,197,202],{"value":175,"source":54,"evidence":176},"Offline mode",[177,178],{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},{"value":180,"source":54,"evidence":181},"Outline and bullet point support",[182,185],{"id":183,"by":166,"text":184},"6478724","I take almost all of my notes in an outline style, which means lots of bullet points. 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It's primarily a webapp though; no native desktop application but they recently came out with mobile apps.",{"id":249,"by":250,"text":251},"6481610","TuringTest","Try workflowy.com.[1] It's a minimalistic bullet-point, hypertext note taking service; I think it has potential, and quite good usability. I predict of of these lots services…",{"value":253,"source":54,"evidence":254},"OneNote",[255,259],{"id":256,"by":257,"text":258},"6480113","barista","Have you tried OneNote. It kicks ass in doing bullet lists and todos. easy reordering, checkboxes and flags, pretty cool.",{"id":260,"by":261,"text":262},"6478893","quanticle","Have you considered swapping out Word for OneNote? 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