Alexis Rondeau

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February 2022 · 4 dispatches

Comment on Universe Splitter

Nice one! Back in 2012 I built the (now defunct) Freakonomics Experiments site[^1] that used had the same A vs. B premise using John Walker's HotBits[^2] from Switzerland.

In case of interest, Steven Levitt published their - albeit single-Universal - findings in "Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness"[^3]

[1]: https://www.freakonomicsexperiments.com/home/faqs/

[2]: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/how3.html

[3]: https://academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article/doi/10.1093/...

Comment on Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing

Good idea to preempt those points, keeps the conversation focused imho.

One thing I noticed that I hadn't seen in any other Electron note-taking apps yet is that it's using Google Analytics to track usage but I didn't see any consent banner (?)

How to poke around: cd Supernotes.app/Contents/Resources/; npx asar extract app.asar ./; cd web; cat index.html

Comment on QuickDown for even faster Markdown capture (iOS)

Hey there, thank you for posting! Alexis here, the creator.

I built QuickDown for myself for "keyboard-first, local markdown note-taking"

I _personally_ use Obsidian afterwards to connect, edit and publish my notes, but it works just as well with other editors (for example: LogSeq, VS Code, iA Writer, Zettlr, TiddlyWiki and any other plain-text based writing process, really)

Any questions please feel free to ask!

PS: To avoid confusion regarding platform – Can you please change the title to macOS instead of iOS. Thanks!