The makers of Octopus Note have created an interesting product, Markdown Tree: https://markdowntree.com

It reminds me a bit of TreeSheets. It looks like a nice notetaking tool and outliner. I am enjoying the interface.

Interesting. I'm leery of sites that cannot be explored without first authenticating with Google credentials -- I've no doubt the "awesome team based in London" is chill, but one never knows. Maybe they will add a demo site that doesn't require giving away credentials first.

zoe wrote:

The makers of Octopus Note have created an interesting product, Markdown
Tree: https://markdowntree.com

It reminds me a bit of TreeSheets. It looks like a nice notetaking tool
and outliner. I am enjoying the interface.

Paul Korm wrote:

Interesting. I'm leery of sites that cannot be explored without first
authenticating with Google credentials -- I've no doubt the "awesome
team based in London" is chill, but one never knows.

zoe wrote:
The makers of Octopus Note have created an interesting product, Markdown
>Tree: https://markdowntree.com

How do we know this is from the "makers of Octopusnote"? The last time I checked OctopusNote was a part-time project of a Lithuanian IT guy working at a bank in Lithuania.

Also, the English is not quite right on the About page. Presumably the "team in London" would have got it proofread by a native speaker?

It does look quite elegant. Another interesting option that's just come out of beta is Milanote (milanote.com), which is kind of like Curio on the Mac, except not as comprehensive and - for some reason - lacking a search function. But it's nicely done, nonetheless, and doesn't demand your inside leg measurement.

Ah, Milanote. It does look pretty. Pretty pricey too for more than the barest account -- $144 USD annual, minimum. Milanote is built on MongoDB -- a product whose users recently experienced a wide-scale ransomware attack because the database administrators did not understand how to lock it down. I believe close to 2,000 sites were knocked down as a result.

Milanote's privacy policy is also quaint: "There are only two people at Milanote who have access to the production database, and we have strict policies to prevent them from accessing user data.". It's somewhat hard to believe in things like that.

MadaboutDana wrote:

It does look quite elegant. Another interesting option that's just come
out of beta is Milanote (milanote.com), which is kind of like Curio on
the Mac, except not as comprehensive and - for some reason - lacking a
search function. But it's nicely done, nonetheless, and doesn't demand
your inside leg measurement.

Paul Korm wrote:

Milanote's privacy policy is also quaint: "There are only two people at
Milanote who have access to the production database, and we have strict
policies to prevent them from accessing user data.". It's somewhat
hard to believe in things like that.

Totally agree. And yet isn't this basically what we get with nearly all web-based services? Pick your app, big or small: Dropbox, Google Drive, Gmail, RememberTheMilk, Evernote, Salesforce, Trello, Workflowy ...
Aren't they all just saying: "trust us, we won't access or sell your data?" (Except Google which says "trust us but we will sell your data anyway") Even WhatsApp revealed that it can, in some circumstances, access user data. It all comes down to how much you trust the company. The only systems that really can't access your data are zero-knowledge systems, and even then, you have to trust the company to have implemented zero-knowledge correctly.