This 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?
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#312Wanted to ask if it was cool with you if I created a Flatpak repo for Flathub for this? That was it can be distributed with Flatpak.
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#313Hey congrats, this looks great for macOS! Trying it now! With a similar mindset and an Emacs background, I wanted a scratch -like experience on iOS, so I built one https://xenodium.com/scratch-a-minimal-scratch-area . Seems to work for others too https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11202 While there's a new built-in iOS journaling app, I'm building one to save to plain text (and no lock-in). https://xenodium.com/an-ios-journa…
Very nice. Although nowadays I just Signal's note to self.
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#314This 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?
yes, this is cool, but without vi keybindings it's not very practical for me now I wonder if I can get or write a vim plugin to do something similar... that would also have the advantage of being in a terminal so it can live in a persistent tmux session and be accessible remotely...
This is where my mind went too -- currently I use VimWiki for this and it can be pretty nasty. Just a little bit of sugar could go a long way.
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#315This 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…
If you were an evernote fan, try Upnote as a replacement.
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#316This looks really promising! I just tried it out. A few pieces of feedback! 1. It seems like the save delay is a bit too long. If you reload the page within like 1s of writing, what you just wrote disappears. Maybe make that faster and/or include a confirmation that there's unsaved changes if you try to close so you don't lose changes. 2. I was expecting some of the other languages to evaluate too (specifically JS).…
> It seems like the save delay is a bit too long.
This is now fixed by making sure the buffer is flushed on reload / exit. Should be released in a beta version in a couple of minutes. Turn on the beta channel in Heynote's settings if you want to update to it right away.
2. Only Match blocks evaluate, and it's likely to stay that way.
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#317Thank you jonatanheyman. This is absolutely brilliant and I see myself using this daily.
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#318I love this concept, blocks with different language is great! Can drop my sublime plain text now
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#319I love this concept, blocks with different language is great! Can drop my sublime plain text now
can we save the content into different files? Then I can split my lines into different subject
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#320This is really cool and I see myself using this a lot. I tried it out but one thing doesn't seem to work now
I was able to toggle language using `⌥ + Shift + F` once before, but that does not seem to be working anymore.