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Re: Show HN: Octarine – a fast, lightweight, opinionated Markdown notes app

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Post by nfbx »

rajatkulk wrote: post #10
nfbx wrote: post #9

this is really really well designed in comparison to apps like obsidian, since the standard design is actually very readable and actually makes you want to write stuff. i think this could replace my current zettler setup in writing papers when you could map hotkeys to most stuff, and it would have a zotero integration in some way. lovely project!

Thank you! I haven't really used zotero, but I feel you can integrate it using url schemes? I have a PR up that opens up `octarine://` url scheme to allow creating notes/folders (it was built for the webclipper repo). Currently keymaps aren't modifiable, but there's an item on the roadmap to change hotkeys.

I don't have much clue about integration of such features as well unfortunately. Another thing I just realized though is, when you press CTRL+Z it will always open the "Recently Viewed" tab, I think that hotkey combination gotta be changed :D

Re: Show HN: Octarine – a fast, lightweight, opinionated Markdown notes app

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Post by rajatkulk »

nfbx wrote: post #11
rajatkulk wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! I haven't really used zotero, but I feel you can integrate it using url schemes? I have a PR up that opens up `octarine://` url scheme to allow creating notes/folders (it was built for the webclipper repo). Currently keymaps aren't modifiable, but there's an item on the roadmap to change hotkeys.

I don't have much clue about integration of such features as well unfortunately. Another thing I just realized though is, when you press CTRL+Z it will always open the "Recently Viewed" tab, I think that hotkey combination gotta be changed :D

Are you by any chance on a german keyboard? or a different keyboard layout?

I've had a report before where they keyboard layout messes up, for Z & Y. `Cmd + Y` is Recently viewed while `Z` does undo

Re: Show HN: Octarine – a fast, lightweight, opinionated Markdown notes app

#13

Post by nfbx »

rajatkulk wrote: post #12
nfbx wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't have much clue about integration of such features as well unfortunately. Another thing I just realized though is, when you press CTRL+Z it will always open the "Recently Viewed" tab, I think that hotkey combination gotta be changed :D

Are you by any chance on a german keyboard? or a different keyboard layout? I've had a report before where they keyboard layout messes up, for Z & Y. `Cmd + Y` is Recently viewed while `Z` does undo

I'm on a german keyboard layout, yeah.

Re: Show HN: Octarine – a fast, lightweight, opinionated Markdown notes app

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Post by rajatkulk »

nfbx wrote: post #13
rajatkulk wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you by any chance on a german keyboard? or a different keyboard layout? I've had a report before where they keyboard layout messes up, for Z & Y. `Cmd + Y` is Recently viewed while `Z` does undo

I'm on a german keyboard layout, yeah.

Figured! I'll spend time soon to have the keyboard layouts not dictate hotkeys or override them.

Re: Show HN: Octarine – a fast, lightweight, opinionated Markdown notes app

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Post by maheshgawali »

Been an early supporter Love the features, simple and fast Looking forward to more task mgmt features to help organize the day along with note taking Please add dictation and summarise mode too Don't need collaboration features but could be great to have Google drive support to backup the data.

All the best and keep up the good work

Re: Show HN: Octarine – a fast, lightweight, opinionated Markdown notes app

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Post by rajatkulk »

nashashmi wrote: post #17

Does it have multi cursor support? CTRL-shift D highlight for all occurrences of a selected text? That is the only reason I spin up VScode for.

Not at the moment, but it’s something I use in VSCode, so it’s on the backlog to be brought, just low on the priority list.

Since find/replace works fine for the current use case (even if not optimal)

Re: Show HN: Octarine – a fast, lightweight, opinionated Markdown notes app

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Post by nashashmi »

rajatkulk wrote: post #18
nashashmi wrote: post #17

Does it have multi cursor support? CTRL-shift D highlight for all occurrences of a selected text? That is the only reason I spin up VScode for.

Not at the moment, but it’s something I use in VSCode, so it’s on the backlog to be brought, just low on the priority list. Since find/replace works fine for the current use case (even if not optimal)

When that is in while keeping it lightweight, I will be a customer. Multi cursor is a an incredibly versatile find and replace. It can remove newlines at specific points. It can skip a few characters of text. It can go up and down a certain number of lines before manipulating text.

Re: Show HN: Octarine – a fast, lightweight, opinionated Markdown notes app

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Post by rajatkulk »

nashashmi wrote: post #19
rajatkulk wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not at the moment, but it’s something I use in VSCode, so it’s on the backlog to be brought, just low on the priority list. Since find/replace works fine for the current use case (even if not optimal)

When that is in while keeping it lightweight, I will be a customer. Multi cursor is a an incredibly versatile find and replace. It can remove newlines at specific points. It can skip a few characters of text. It can go up and down a certain number of lines before manipulating text.

Got it. I'll take a look, but there's no timeline guarantees.

The use case is far too niche to move engineering efforts to immediately, so it'll be prioritised when either:

- the ask quantity increases.

- when an adjacent part of the code is being improved/fixed and this could be tacked upon in the same release.

Thanks for the suggestion!

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