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

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Post by al_borland »

jonatanheyman wrote: post #130
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…

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)?

Another option might be to have the default scroll position at the bottom, to act more like a terminal or chat app. Scroll up to see the history, rather than scrolling down to see the latest.

(Sorry if this is how it already works, I’m on my phone right now, so I can’t download it, but I’m very interested in the block idea. I like that concept a lot for a scratch pad. I’m definitely saving this for later.)

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

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Post by dwilding »

jonatanheyman wrote: post #130
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…

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)?

Your app is awesome, it's just so satisfying to use. Really fantastic job!

My two cents on block insertion: Personally, I would love if Cmd+Enter inserts a new block at the very top

For inserting a new block in sequence, I feel like Cmd+Shift+Enter (splitting the current block) might already be enough - but I obviously haven't used heynote for long enough to have a very informed opinion on this :)

Maybe there's some way to make the behavior configurable?

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

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Post by nicoburns »

jonatanheyman wrote: post #44
michaelrpeskin wrote: post #34

I love this! I typically use a separate text editor for things like this, but the block idea is great and works with how my brain likes to group things. I know this is expanding the scope and complexity and probably opposite to what you're trying to do, but one thing that would be cool is to have different tabs. In my current workflow, I have a notepad for "working memory" which Heynote will easily replace. I also ha…

Yeah, at the moment I'm hesitant to add tab support (for the reasons that you stated), though I've definitely thought about it.

Perhaps you could consider documenting/specifying the file format. Seems to me that this could potentially become some kind of standard (if you're open to that). Perhaps with a .mixt extension (for "mixed text")?

Seems to me that this would be a pretty good general document format for a lot of use cases.

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

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Post by pomdtr »

jonatanheyman wrote: post #44
michaelrpeskin wrote: post #34

I love this! I typically use a separate text editor for things like this, but the block idea is great and works with how my brain likes to group things. I know this is expanding the scope and complexity and probably opposite to what you're trying to do, but one thing that would be cool is to have different tabs. In my current workflow, I have a notepad for "working memory" which Heynote will easily replace. I also ha…

Yeah, at the moment I'm hesitant to add tab support (for the reasons that you stated), though I've definitely thought about it.

I think tabs could be interesting if coupled with a way to filter the list of blocks (ex: I only want to see math blocks, or only blocks containing the #daily tag, or only blocks from this month).

Then each tab would be an opportunity to apply a new set of filter on top of the same document.

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