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

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Post by SpaghettiCthulu »

amadeuspagel wrote: post #160
jsdalton wrote: post #109

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 made a notes app that's kind of like that. Notes get added to the top and when you edit a note it gets "bumped" to the top again: https://thinktype.app/

TIL using the .app TLD makes your website categorically an app

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

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Post by amadeuspagel »

SpaghettiCthulu wrote: post #161
amadeuspagel wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made a notes app that's kind of like that. Notes get added to the top and when you edit a note it gets "bumped" to the top again: https://thinktype.app/

TIL using the .app TLD makes your website categorically an app

I'm not sure what you mean. This is an app that stores everything client side. It works offline. It's no different from a native app.

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

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Post by promiseofbeans »

I saw the unit conversions and it immediately reminded me of Fend (https://github.com/printfn/fend). If you're looking to expand on your maths / unit conversion feature, it could be a good option. It also supports forum-style since rolling (e.g. 3d6+4), which some people could find pretty useful

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

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Post by gnyman »

bityard wrote: post #95

This looks fantastic. I will definitely give it a spin. I've been tracking what I call "computational scratchpad" apps for a while now but haven't found one that fits my environment/workflow yet. Maybe Heynote will. Here are some others that I've looked at: * https://soulver.app Granddad of them all, Mac-only, proprietary, expensive * https://numi.app Mac-only, proprietary, semi-expensive. Has a Github and claims to…

Great list! It looks exhaustive, you've managed to include all I have tried and a few more.

Myself I have ended up with mostly using Soulver and TextMate. TM is not really the same thing but it has nice built in text manipulation for more advanced things like "diff selection with clipboard", regex and "sorta and remove duplicates". The thing it lacks is on the scratchpad/autosaving... So I just abuse the window restoration feature and never close or save any documents but have 50 textmate windows :-)

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

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Post by rkeene2 »

bachmeier wrote: post #156
jonatanheyman wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> would really like the results of the math to be in buffer.txt and in Ctrl+a and copy. Adding the results to lines that are copied from Math blocks should be doable, and I like that idea! I agree that it would also be nice with the results in buffer.txt, but because of implementation details it's harder to implement I think. > changing font and color theme At the moment, I'm leaning towards keeping the number of con…

Changing the font is accessibility, not customization. I downloaded the app, opened it up, and the font was too small for it to be practical for me to use. I know it doesn't take much to fix, because I did a Ctrl-Shift-I, changed the font from 12px to 18px, and problem solved. It's not something I'm going to do over and over.

Yeah, it's not really usable without being able to configure a reasonable font.
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