I love this. I currently use an app like this. Ctrl-: opens and closes. But it is just one big blob and the Cmd-a thing gets me as well. Looking forward to giving this a go.
Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
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#292I don't like software that connects to internet for no good reason.
I don't want your app to check for updates, I'll decide if and when I'd like to update it.
It also sucks that you haven't provided an option to disable update checks.
Since I am on linux and your app is distributed as an .AppImage - the binary gets random name on each run, so I can't set a permanent network rule to forbid it connecting to the internet - instead I get prompted every time.
Also, although blocks feature is nice - I still would like to be able to use tabs as well.
Also, I'd like to know where that info is getting stored on FileSystem: it is nice that the app saves it on the go, but I still would like to be able to work with the files directly.
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#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey! Nice app, I've always had scratch pads around for things like this and never had a particularly good solution for them. Soulver is nice but too maths focused, a tab in VSCode in nice but it's a pain to manage multiple buffers for different languages. I like the feature set here. A few bits of feedback for potential improvements or clarifications... - I couldn't find the shortcut to change the language until I ho…
> I couldn't find the shortcut to change the language until I hovered over the status bar element for it. It should have a menu item with the keyboard shortcut on it. Noted. Will fix! > Doesn't respect the system light/dark mode, it should by default (but perhaps with an app specific override as some people like that) The light/dark toggle has three states. Light/Dark/Whatever the system is set to (default). If it's…
> The light/dark toggle has three states. Light/Dark/Whatever the system is set to (default). If it's set to the third mode, it should respect the system mode. Otherwise it's a bug!
Ah ha! That's it. I must have toggled this to forced-light inadvertently when testing. I think it could be clearer.
Thanks for the explanation of the persistence. This sounds absolutely fine for where the app is at right now, but would be great to explain it (in less detail perhaps?) somewhere. In the future, being able to set a custom path for it might be a quick way to enable hacky syncing. I realise symlinks could probably achieve this, but I think that's less discoverable.
Thanks for the reply and best of luck with the app!
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#294This is so neat. Good work! I've tried Obsidian, Notion, Typora, and a myriad of other local editors only to come back to vim every time. My ideal text editor is one that has syntax highlighting, scratchpad, markdown support, block based editing, ability to link between documents and vim keybindings. No cloud login, AI assistant, cross-device sync, or other bloat. I try to avoid using electron apps for lightweight ta…
Hey there! Maybe you'll like my next note-taking app[1]. It has a block editor based on Qt C++ so it's very performant. It supports Markdown out of the box, will have advanced media support like Kanban, images, columns, etc. [1] https://www.get-plume.com/
Approximately when will it come out?
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#295Initial 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…
I have a total of 4 GB ram on my laptop. Background programs consume about 2 gb and windows around 1.5. Thay leaves me with around 500 MB free.
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey there! Maybe you'll like my next note-taking app[1]. It has a block editor based on Qt C++ so it's very performant. It supports Markdown out of the box, will have advanced media support like Kanban, images, columns, etc. [1] https://www.get-plume.com/
Approximately when will it come out?
In about seven weeks. Sign up to the wait list, and you'll get an email when it's ready.
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This is great! One small suggestion: I'd love a shortcut to be able to insert the current date/time. Or perhaps track the time a block was created, and have an option to display that somewhere small on the UI for each block? I find it super helpful to have the date when search back through old notes like this.
Yes, I think adding the creation time and last update time of blocks is a good idea.
Auto-tracking this would be amazing. I insert timestamps very frequently.
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#298I love this! Simple and solid execution. I've been wanting to build something similar for some time now, might fork and play around with it. Thank you for open sourcing it! I've started using Obsidian with a new note for each day and separating "blocks" with a Markdown horizontal rule (`---`) to achieve something similar, but this is much cleaner. The strength of such an approach is making capture extremely easy -- n…
It's not open source, as it uses the Commons Clause which severely limits what can be done with it (the name is misleading).
I didn't put too much consideration into picking a license. If someone has compelling arguments for why I should license it differently, I would absolutely consider it.
Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
#299I don't like software that connects to internet for no good reason. I don't want your app to check for updates, I'll decide if and when I'd like to update it. It also sucks that you haven't provided an option to disable update checks. Since I am on linux and your app is distributed as an .AppImage - the binary gets random name on each run, so I can't set a permanent network rule to forbid it connecting to the interne…
> I don't like software that connects to internet for no good reason.
It makes HTTP requests to fetch current exchange rates (for currency conversion) and to check for updates.
> I don't want your app to check for updates, I'll decide if and when I'd like to update it.
It still requires user interaction to actually apply the update.
> I'd like to know where that info is getting stored on FileSystem
See https://github.com/heyman/heynote?tab=readme-ov-file#where-i...
It shouldn't be hard to fork it and disable currencies and auto updates. However, it sounds like Heynote might not be a good fit for you :).
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#300This is great. I always resort to textedit for this stuff, i am going to use heynote instead and see how it goes. love seeing stuff like this on HN like the good old days. Any plans to add vi keybindings support by any chance?
2nd this, would be great with vi/vim bindings