Show HN: CrushPaper – Open-Source Workflowy and Evernote for Writers, Students

Post by whistlerbrk » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 6:23 PM UTC

bazookajoes wrote: post #7

tekacs wrote: post #3

This is nice, but the core keyboard shortcuts are (or so I find) painful and needlessly complex to use. :/ A comparison: Workflowy -> CrushPaper Enter -> Alt+s Enter -> Alt+u/b Enter + Tab -> Alt+c This feels like it was designed to be used with a mouse and keyboard shortcuts inexpertly bolted on. :) After that fix, this is a joy to use. :)

Thank you for the feedback! I think one of the major UI differences between Workflowy and CrushPaper is that CrushPaper aims to support multiline notes and quotations. I often paste snippets of code into CrushPaper but that does not seem to work well in Workflowy. In Workflowy you can create multiline notes with Shift+Enter, but then you don't seem to be able to navigate to those lines with the keyboard. CrushPaper c…

Post by bazookajoes » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 6:29 PM UTC

quadrangle wrote: post #12

Thanks for using the AGPL

Post by bazookajoes » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 6:34 PM UTC

whistlerbrk wrote: post #11

bazookajoes wrote: post #7

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Thank you for the feedback! I think one of the major UI differences between Workflowy and CrushPaper is that CrushPaper aims to support multiline notes and quotations. I often paste snippets of code into CrushPaper but that does not seem to work well in Workflowy. In Workflowy you can create multiline notes with Shift+Enter, but then you don't seem to be able to navigate to those lines with the keyboard. CrushPaper c…

I think what the original commenter was getting at was that the UI flow in general doesn't reduce implied next steps. I like your project though.

Post by bazookajoes » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 6:41 PM UTC

hammerandtongs wrote: post #14

bazookajoes wrote: post #6

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That is a great suggestion. Thank you for pointing that out. So far I haven't thought about that at all.

Your project seems perfect for sandstorm. The gap between "you can run your own server" and a one click install via sandstorm is profound.

Post by WalterGR » Fri, Jun 05, 2015, 8:14 PM UTC

hammerandtongs wrote: post #16

This whole area is very underserved in how people interact with their computers, glad to see people pushing at it. You could do worse then really digging deep into emacs org-mode and learning it well. It takes what you are doing to a much higher level but doesn't exist on the web yet. Also (as mentioned elsewhere) get yourself up here https://demo.sandstorm.io/demo

    This whole area is very underserved in how people
    interact with their computers, glad to see people
    pushing at it.