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0 pointskdtsh4y ago0 comments

> Of course most on HN would probably point out that this is obviously why your personal notes should always be hosted / backed up locally

And they would be right. Having your notes pushed up to the cloud is great and I use a feature like that all the time (specifically with iCloud and either the Notes app or beorg), but the most recent version of these documents should always be available offline.

Is your application unavailable without a network connection? What if you go somewhere without reception?

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fastball4y ago

Yep, for the moment it is unavailable without a connection. Luckily most people are connected all the time these days, so it hasn't actually been a sticking point for any of our users so far. But yes, we agree that having offline is also super important, so we're building that out as well.

We wanted to build a platform that had collaboration in mind from the beginning though, which is why we opted to go for online-only initially – kicked the tough engineering problem of eventual consistency (when collaborating) down the road a bit so that we could work on features that were actually unique to our system (it's just two of us at the moment).

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0 pointskdtsh4y ago0 comments

> Of course most on HN would probably point out that this is obviously why your personal notes should always be hosted / backed up locally

Is your application unavailable without a network connection? What if you go somewhere without reception?

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fastball4y ago

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