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Show HN: ThinkPost - split-panel note taking & brainstorming app
for devs
ThinkPost is an Interactive split-panel diagramming, draggable
block-based note-taking, and brainstorming tool. I developed
ThinkPost as a side project for few months now. Basic idea is
parallel streaming of ideas. It's a desktop web app with a very
scaled down mobile version just for support. Whole my career I had
been working with startups and specifically early stage ones, and
it's a big responsibility to devise a feature on our own, think
deeply about it in different streams (logically, security, re-
usability, platform APIs etc.) and even present distilled part of
it to stakeholders (Often times non technical people). Even now I
run backend/infra/mobile/qa/customer support/integrations for a
healthcare startup, so stakes are high. There's a lot of self
brainstorming in multiple streams and then there's also
distillation process. I couldn't really work with single page
notepads for that streaming process. We should be able to note down
in split-panels, so there's space for parallel ideas. Many note-
taking apps today single-paged have high-think-threshold (windows
notepad/apple notes have very low-think-threshold), you have to
think before you write in them, so not a good option for quick
ideas. So built a platform specifically for everyone who can
parallel stream ideas in split panels Textually (low-think-
threshold), write as they like), Diagrammatically, Code-wise or
even Quick Maths. And also move the idea blocks across panels or
within! or Open a new tab if you want more! I'm personally a
massive user of my app because I plan everything at my current job
via this app, run meetings, self-brainstorm features, study
requirements, visualize code-ideas, an develop this when I get time
as well. All completely free. Might run ads later.
https://thinkpost.io - Try! no login needed. More comprehensive
introduction: https://zameermfm.medium.com/introducing-thinkpost-
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Author : zameermfm
Score : 22 points
Date : 2024-07-28 16:19 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| t0ffif33 wrote:
| Great idea, and great execution of it! I mostly use a text file
| to get my thoughts down while building but I can see myself using
| something like this. My only feedback would be to maybe not use
| the Gemini AI icon for "Switching Panel Type", my feeling is that
| there are more expressive icons for such actions.
| osdev wrote:
| Nice idea and the site looks well done! Congrats on launching
| this. I played around the site a bit and with the different
| panels.. a few thoughts/questions...
|
| THOUGHTS
|
| 1. Target: Is the market for enterprise/work or for
| consumer/personal use or does it not matter? Similar question for
| people, is it more for people who need diagrams in combination
| with notes and if so, are these mostly technical people who could
| author both the notes / diagrams and for non-technical people who
| would read/consume them?
|
| 2. All-In-One: The inevitable question/concern on a tool that
| combines many things into one, is that, it being good but not
| great at any one thing. This is something I'm also dealing with
| on one my projects. How do you address this concern?
|
| 3. Limitations: Are there any limitations with the note taking,
| or the diagramming capabilities compared to specialized products
| / apps like Joplin, UpNote, Bear, or Draw.io ?
|
| QUESTIONS
|
| 1. Tab: Is a "tab" analogous to a "note" in other apps?
|
| 2. Panels: Are all the panels linked to a tab and is there a
| limit to the panels?
|
| 3. Folders: I didn't quite get it, but how are multiple notes
| organized into 1 collection?
|
| 4. Diagrams: Do you have an example of a sophisticated diagram
| made with your app?
|
| I use diagramming quite often, but it's mostly for work purposes
| for technical software architecture diagrams, which I eventually
| embed into other wiki pages and/or git readmes. For personal use
| at home, I can't remember the last time I had to diagram
| anything. The first thing that comes to mind is how does the
| diagramming compare to something more specialized like draw.io. I
| can definitely see potential in this for work purposes.
|
| All the Best!
| benatkin wrote:
| Nice project. I played with it for a little while, and while I
| found some issues like the code blocks inserted with `/` not
| automatically sizing to fit the content, and showing an alert()
| when switching panel types even when a panel hasn't been edited,
| I think it works pretty well for how ambitious of an app it is.
|
| I like being able to do things side by side. However, I think
| perhaps the tabs should be within each split. It also should be
| geared towards quickly opening and closing things. A low entropy
| split view will result in space being taken up by stuff that
| isn't relevant. This is why the split view in Visual Studio Code
| works pretty well. It's like a browser where the tabs are
| constantly changing - not like Excel where you delete tabs but
| don't close them and they're persisted across sessions including
| the order of the tabs. (Actually, Excel has a split view but it
| works because you can quickly change which tab is open in each
| split, so it's relevant to the task at hand.)
|
| > Many note-taking apps today single-paged have high-think-
| threshold
|
| Like Notion and Obsidian? I find them to be simple to use if you
| don't use their advanced features.
|
| > I'm personally a massive user of my app.
|
| It's because you're testing your own app.
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