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

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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…

Here's another web-based one: https://www.turo.io/

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

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This is really, really good. Just earned a permanent spot on my dock in short order. One request (which I would happily pay for): make it so that you can run the code blocks and generate an output. I routinely crack open the browser console to test out some JS and it would be great to be able to do this right alongside my other notes.

have you tried RunJS? https://runjs.app/

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

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post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you want to make commercial profit unlikely but encourage contributions and widespread use, GPL would probably work better than Commons Clause.

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

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post #302

This is really, really good. Just earned a permanent spot on my dock in short order. One request (which I would happily pay for): make it so that you can run the code blocks and generate an output. I routinely crack open the browser console to test out some JS and it would be great to be able to do this right alongside my other notes.

have you tried RunJS? https://runjs.app/

I haven't, thank you for sharing.

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

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Thank you, this is very cool. It'll probably replace my current "keep a random vscode/sublime tab" method of notekeeping. Shift+Alt+Down clones the current line, but this is not indicated in the keybinds info. Since the next large version will add the feature to customize the buffer storage path, perhaps it's only a small leap from there to add save/load of different buffer files? I imagine it would already be possible at that point by changing the path and reloading or restarting the program, but a slightly more UX friendly version would be neat.
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