Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

Low-key I have been looking for something like Obsidian-but-freeish to try since a while - I think this is exactly what I searched for. Going to give it a go during the weekend definitely.<p>On a different note, what&#x27;s the long term sustainability plan? Relying on donations rarely works... I guess it&#x27;s not very expensive to host text, but still, its cost is not 0. &quot;Unlimited free forever&quot; is either not free, doesn&#x27;t last forever, or not unlimited. (Usually the 2nd one)<p>Also, do you do any (automatic) content filtering? It is very easy to abuse pastebin services

The sign up process is not very fluid to me. First off, I don&#x27;t really like password signups in general, but on Android I was able to get auto generated password for the password field but was stuck because the Google password manager didn&#x27;t recognize the other field as a password confirmation. So I couldn&#x27;t copy between them and going to a different app to write a long password and going back and copy paste just seemed like too much work.<p>Esp since I had to write my email already and also pick a username.. why do I need a username for a note taking app?<p>How about simplifying the on boarding into just email+click link? Maybe also picking a password after you are in?

I&#x27;m pretty deep into Obsidian-space right now but I&#x27;m loving all these newfangled knowledge apps that push things a heck of a lot further than we had previously with bloat like evernote et al.

Amazing work! Thank you for sharing here.<p>A while ago, I made something exactly like this called writedown: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;writedown.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;writedown.app</a><p>It is a free and open source, simple and easy to use Notion alternative.<p>I had to leave it midway (it&#x27;s ready to use and stable though) because my other projects needed attention but I&#x27;ll get back to it someday :)

co-founder here: Just a little context on the &quot;why&quot; from the site -<p>&gt; We created lowercase as a side project to make it easier for folks to quickly share content without the pressure of having the perfect blog post. Sometimes you just want to share thoughts without worrying about styling and hosting. Ideas aren&#x27;t always structured. And sometimes simple and easy is what you need.<p>&gt; A note-taking app that is simple, fun to use, snappy, and easy on the eyes. There is no one perfect note-taking tool. Everyone has their preferences. But we feel that we&#x27;ve landed on something nice.<p>&gt; We built lowercase in our spare time as a passion project. No funding.<p>&gt; We decided from the very beginning that we&#x27;d never collect or share any user data. We don&#x27;t even use website analytics. The intent of lowercase is to stay lean and serve a purpose - make it easier to share thoughts in sometimes ever-evolving documents.

Nice product! I might have missed mentions of it, but is it real-time editing? Does it supports multi users?<p>A warning that might spoil a bit your adventure on the long run: Your published pages will be exploited somehow. SEO backlink abuse, phishing, etc. Offering free public hosting is what people with ill intent are looking for, and you can be sure that at some point they&#x27;ll look at your solution

This seems amazing, except for the fact that it&#x27;s not open source and can&#x27;t be self-hosted.<p>That, to me at least, is the most important part of a note-taking app.

some feedback:<p>as a first time visitor, the pricing page is really confusing. if its free why is there a stripe faq immediately below? i am still confused whether this product is free or paid without signing up. the pricing page requires some rework imo

I really like this. I currently use Craft, but while Craft started out simply, it expanded to some more &quot;power&quot; features. People host their entire websites on it, although it requires workarounds to do that. And the guardrails&#x2F;limitations end up making things you build kind of the same.<p>I love the simplicity of Lowercase. The price is good too. I will be giving it a test rise here and there, because I do send a lot of communications that I enjoy mocking up with very basic formatting.<p>I&#x27;d love to the Publishing toggle taken out of the settings panel or whatever.

Congratulations, looks like a cool app, I&#x27;m hoping I&#x27;ll eventually catch up with being feature rich like yours. I&#x27;ve only just started, being hacking on it for a month now but am looking to do something pretty similar. I think we&#x27;ve had a few ideas the same - and amrescratching the same itch. Your 4 years ahead though :-) :-) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edit-this.page&#x2F;help" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edit-this.page&#x2F;help</a> is my humble work in progress.<p>Best of luck to you all!

co-founder here: feel free to ask any questions!

This looks really nice, but if you put information into a closed-source unmonetized side project, you better hope you never need to get it back out

Nit Pick feedback: it should read: “the right _number_ of features”, not “_amount_ of features”. Other than that, love the look of the site :)

Few years back after countless hours of deciding which note taking apps that suits me, I just settled with Obsidian (I briefly used Dendron before that). I realised that I am not that power user of thing like this. Similar with what kind of indexing&#x2F;management systems. I just fuck it no analysis paralysis, just do with whatever work for now.

Why would I use this, instead of Obsidian (say)?

It amazes me that every few weeks a new note taking app is featured on HN.<p>What am I missing? For years I’ve taken notes in the Apple Notes.app on my tablet and phone and laptop and <i>it just works.</i><p>Why would I want to switch to a paid app? Or why would I want to run a bash script that puts stuff on GitHub?

&gt; Free to use. No strings attached.<p>Unlimited notes with online syncing? For free? I refuse to believe that. What&#x27;s the catch? As the old saying goes: If it&#x27;s free, you&#x27;re the product.

I just use trello. I have columns for songs, movies, roadtrip ideas, coding ideas, you name it.<p>Everything looks the same everywhere, desktop, phone, tablet.

Why are you not charging money?

What is the user exit strategy? Can I export all notes? In which formats?

It would be nice to have a zero trust model for something like this.

Dark mode please

making all the landing page text lowercase to fully commit to the brand name is my suggestion

&quot;If you want publish them&quot; should probably be &quot;If you want to publish them&quot;

vi. email. git

I went through a bunch of note-taking apps before I settled on a git directory that&#x27;s auto-synced once an hour. This bash script is all it takes.<p><pre><code> cd ~&#x2F;notes if [[ &#x27;&#x27;$(git status --porcelain) ]]; then git stash save git pull --rebase git stash pop || true git add . git -c &quot;user.name=Phil Kulak&quot; -c &quot;user.email=nope@kulak.us&quot; commit -m &quot;&#x27;&#x27;$(date)&quot; git push origin main else git pull fi</code></pre>

Please charge something. In order to trust my notes somewhere, I need it to be in someone&#x27;s best interest to keep my data and not grow bored or overburdened by costs.<p>I desperately want a simple, cross-platform, online or offline, fast note taking app. Evernote was this maybe 10 years ago before the bloat. I beg them every feedback opportunity to get Team features, chat, AI, and never ending upgrades out of my face. When I open the app it is because I either have a quick thought to capture or I need to retrieve one. That is the worst time for a distraction.<p>Please charge a profitable amount and take my money.

Sooo expensive, thank you sooo much!