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post #48

I'd love to get some feedback also :). Heynote Github Repo: https://github.com/heyman/heynote

Is it possible to use proportional (non-monospace) fonts? It’s not clear from the website. That would be a necessary feature for me.

It's not possible at the moment.

Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

#122
post #43

It would be perfect that you add this on brew because most corporate mac users have no permission to download these type dmg except brew

"most"? I'd say that's actually an extremely weird and rare restriction.

Not sure about "most," but I have this exact restriction at work. I don't think it's extremely rare.

Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

#124

Initial thoughts: 1. It looks beautiful and useful. Very nice work! 2. I love the math sections. 3. I was shocked how large the download was. 4. It's chewing enough memory between the GUI and the (3!) helper processes that I will probably continue to use BBEdit for this kind of thing. I think it will be useful to a lot of people... I like it and could see myself using it sometimes even if it feels too heavy to keep i…

Yeah, large file sizes and some RAM overhead is a drawback that comes with Electron apps. However, it would never have been possible for me to make Heynote for all of Mac, Windows and Linux, on my spare time and within a reasonable timeframe, without Electron. Also, the CPU usage overhead for Heynote is minimal. It's one of the apps I use the most, and it's never among the programs that have used the most CPU. Yes, 2…

This feels like one of those situations where a PWA with local storage might be a winning play. Since it doesn't actually need filesystem access or some of the other integrations electron provides. In my case, at least, I do pretty well always have at least one chromium-type browser running, so that would cross off the download objection (which was mild) and the RAM overhead (which was more serious, today at least).

Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

#125

This is just outstanding. It's so exactly what I wish for out of a scratch pad. My feature request to add to your pile (possibly a lonely one, since maybe it's just unique to how my brain works): I really want a scratch pad like this to have UX that supports "inverted" order. Meaning, new blocks get added to the top of the page instead of the bottom. The blocks naturally flow in descending order of creation rather th…

I agree that this addition would be very helpful as it is already how I take notes in a markdown document.

Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

#126
post #57

great application and something i didnt ask for but needed somehow ;) Sometimes i have to quickly write something down for the reasons you stated. Then i have to open a text editor like Windows Editor or Notepad++. These are nice but they really don't have the feeling to write things down. You have somewhat of an anxiety that you'll lose that data if you forget to save it. Also there is no vim support and stuff like…

What's Windows Editor? Do you mean the good old Notepad? :)

Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

#130

This is just outstanding. It's so exactly what I wish for out of a scratch pad. My feature request to add to your pile (possibly a lonely one, since maybe it's just unique to how my brain works): I really want a scratch pad like this to have UX that supports "inverted" order. Meaning, new blocks get added to the top of the page instead of the bottom. The blocks naturally flow in descending order of creation rather th…

Happy you like it :).

I get the idea of the "inverted order". I wonder if it would be enough to make it configurable so that C-Enter inserts a new block before the current one + Heynote sets the cursor at the beginning of the buffer at startup (instead of last which is the current behavior)?

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