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NoteSake

We are a simple but very powerful note site. We launched last week and have gotten a great response from everyone but haven't gotten much back about what people would like to see and their experience as a user.
 
I love the clean and simple design. I signed up and everything looks good so far-- I'll use it a little bit next week when I start classes again :)
 
I like the clean design as well. Looks good.

Your link has 4 w's in it. At first I thought the site wouldn't load until I saw that.
 
Register / Other one on yellow are hard to read since they have light backgrounds w/ white text. Maybe darken the text so there is better contrast?
 
I did not see the border around the image or the bevel with brownish bg color with the steps in a white table until I got underneath my LCD. Might want to contrast that up a bit.

I agree on the titles, The colors are bright and refreshing but the white doesn't contract well enough IMO for the green and yellow, especially on the lighter portion of the gradient.

It is nice and clean however and the logo looks great. I always get designer's block when trying to make something like that. Kudos.

How long did you spend on the site .... and be honest, I know I waste hours sometimes before I call the placement and all a final draft.
 
Love the design! The yellow on the bottom makes the text hard to read however, but I like the site overall!

:D
 
Most everything looked good from my end, but I agree that the white on yellow is hard to read. I suggest a dark text in those three boxes. In the registration page you don't specify a minimum password length, and I would personally make the gray in each field slightly darker.

On another note, I would set the date fields to eliminate all years that are under 18, may not be a problem, but is a good practice.

Also, when I created a note and went back to view it there is the slightest hint of a gray border. I would just make that border black for visibility reasons.

All in all I believe that your package there is well rounded and highly functional. It recognized the college 30 miles away from here without issue, although the popup is a bit slow.

Keep at it. This looks like something that will get some attention.

Nick
 
thanks for the positive feedback everyone. all the notes you've made are very helpful.

this weekend we did a live demo of the site for techpodcast.com

they've just posted the video. it can be found on their site.
 
MadJuggla9 said:
How long did you spend on the site .... and be honest, I know I waste hours sometimes before I call the placement and all a final draft.
Click to expand...

It has been about a year since inception. We did have a 90% working version with php but decided to move to ruby on rails so the old site was completely rewritten earlier this summer. There is no way I could tell you how many hours it has been. That is the last way I would ever want to think about a project like this.
 
Alrighty. So, I attempted to start taking notes in my math class last night. I was really excited to see the LaTeX support. Now, I say attempted for a reason, I just couldn't get the notes to format the way I was expecting. Because of this I just switched to my regular text editor (vim) and finished my notes in there.

I started poking around the site today trying to figure out why it wasn't working as expected, but unfortunately there isn't any mention on the site (that I found) that the site is using Textile, except for the small '?' near the text editor. The way I found out it was using Textile markup (which I'd never heard of before) was by reading through your blog.

My suggestion is that you implement some sort of short tutorial on the use of the editor-- I'm usually able to figure things out pretty easily on my own, but it wasn't directly obvious to me how to use the editor. Maybe it's obvious that's what the question mark near the editor is there for, but it wasn't immediately obvious to me.

Also, I'd love to see a persistent login implemented so that I don't have to re-auth every time I go to the site.

Give people a way to export our notes so that we're able to back them up on our own. I understand you guys are trying to be paranoid and keep our notes safe, but I'd feel more comfortable if I was able to back them up also. If you're able to implement that, obviously implement a way for us to import them back into the site.

I'm going to get comfortable with Textile and get my notes from last night put in and I'll see if I can come up with anything else.
 
Thank you for the feedback.

I agree we need a better help section. Our hope was that people could click the edit button after viewing the Hello World note but I don't think that is obvious.

As far as the export. We actually have that working on our staging site but due to the layout constraints we don't have a nice place to put that button. Our designer is working through a few things now. When he is done we will have export as well as be able to drop a few more features in more quickly.
 
Looks good, I found 1 typo while perusing your site that I thought I would mention.
http://notesake.com/faq.html

"What about my information?

NoteSake will NEVER sell any of your information too anyone. We collect information for our own personal information. We will never give your email or name to anyone."

It should be "your information to anyone".
 
Alright cool. It's good to hear you've thought of that.

dugg for the hottness.

Edit: One more suggestion. I think that auto-saving the updated notes (maybe as a temporary note until the user confirms the change) would be very nice. I notice that while I'm taking notes I like to save the note while I'm in the middle of a lecture in case my browser eats it or I inevertantly navigate away from the page, and it's a pain to have to save, then click again to continue to edit it. The way I imagine it, the user would create or open an existing note and then using AJAX and a timer have the note autosave to a temp note (the title.tmp, or something..) and then once the user decides to save the note, it's committed to the note's real title, similar to the way Google has implemented this in Gmail.
 
You make Simple work very well. I need to signup and test it, but as for right now, its look great.
 
Great, way to release something like this now that I'll be done with school this Spring. This definitely would have been useful about three years ago.

Anyway, is it just me or do the indent buttons not work so great? Other than that, awesome site.

EDIT: also seems like the notes don't 'word wrap' properly, if I type an exceedingly long sentence, it goes way off the right hand side of the margin once it's saved.
 
we've added multi language support and the ability to export to pdf/word in the last few days.

thanks for the feedback jim, i will look into that.
 
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