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Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 10, 2016 at 06:12 PM
Yes, sorry about that!
Okay, confession time:
My flurry of notes reflected a sudden CRIMPing seizure, which has ended with me reinstalling Trunk Notes on all my iOS devices, discovering that it syncs very nicely with Ulysses and TextNut (via Dropbox), has a fantastic built-in web server (which can be set to “not sleep” on e.g. an iPad). The other aspect I’d completely forgotten is the support for LUA, which means you can use all kinds of short codes embedded in pages (or in headers/footers) to trigger various actions or list stuff like tags, notes, actions, backlinks etc. etc. etc. Oh, and it also supports HTML in pages, so you can use that instead of Markdown if you want to e.g. insert a table or something.
The encryption works very nicely, too.
The thing that’s finally winning me over is the fact that you can customise the CSS. Meaning you can make Trunk Notes as attractive as you like - as attractive as e.g. Ulysses or Bear, in fact.
Oh dear! This has been Very Bad for my productivity, and means I shall be working late this evening! Bad, Bad Bill. Big Smack!
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Paul Korm
Nov 10, 2016 at 06:58 PM
Whoa ... thanks for the tips about Trunk Notes. It’s been sitting fallow on my iPad for a long time. You’re right, Bill—very cool features. I had never used the server. With that running, it’s a great way to get info onto the iPad:
Insert links to notes in Bear, which are also synced to the iPad. Or links to documents from DEVONthink that are synced to DEVONthink to Go.
Clip images on the desktop, send them to Droplr and them grab the Droply link and put it into a Trunk Notes note—can add images to notes this way.
Lots more to explore. Great CRIMP.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 10, 2016 at 07:45 PM
Yeah, dude, and to think it started with a simple discussion of [[wiki linking]] - which, by the way, Trunk Notes also supports, although it’s not mentioned in the documentation.
The Trunk Notes version is case sensitive. Dang, it works really well with Ulysses, TextNut and Bear! Oh, and with MWeb, QOwnNotes and iaWriter. And LightPaper, too.
Back to work.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 11, 2016 at 10:26 AM
Another sad CRIMPing detail: Trunk Notes doesn’t support the GitHub flavour of Markdown, so I thought there was no way of introducing checkboxes (for lists, todos etc.).
But actually you can, using a simple piece of Lua code, thus: {{check Something I really need to do}}
“check” stands for checkbox, and when you save the edited page you’ll see a checkbox followed by “Something I really need to do” (the equivalent of “- [ ] Something I really need to do” in a GitHub editor)
The cunning bit is: you can check the checkbox on the page *in viewing mode*, and the app will remember its status (even if you then edit the page again, or sync over Dropbox).
I’ve no idea how it’s doing this - there must be some Lua meta code embedded somewhere (I confess I haven’t had a good look at the file yet). But it’s very convenient, precisely because you don’t have to edit a note in order to check a checkbox.
CRIMPin’ Bill
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 11, 2016 at 12:40 PM
Fascinating. Trunk Notes does actually support extended Markdown, just not the GitHub flavour. So you can, for example, create tables. It also automatically parses dashes and converts quotation marks/apostrophes to the curly variety. Gosh.
I do wish one could change the CSS for the web server (maybe one can, and I just haven’t found it yet); I’ve got the CSS for the Trunk Notes default page settings optimised so pages now look very nice, but the CSS settings don’t carry over to the web server. I shall investigate further.