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Re: Show HN: 5iler – a repurposable minimalist notepad

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This may be a known issue: it has to do with the fact that whenever Dropbox syncs, the undo state is reset. If you haven't setup Dropbox sync and have been experiencing this, let me know.

Yeah I actually haven't synced Dropbox, though I can't seem to reproduce this on a consistent basis. Huge fan of this though, definitely going to be something I use on a consistent basis.

Also, redo isn't working for me at all.

Re: Show HN: 5iler – a repurposable minimalist notepad

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Yeah I actually haven't synced Dropbox, though I can't seem to reproduce this on a consistent basis. Huge fan of this though, definitely going to be something I use on a consistent basis.

Also, redo isn't working for me at all.

Jk, I was using the wrong shortcut :)

Re: Show HN: 5iler – a repurposable minimalist notepad

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Thank you! As a matter of fact, Markdown support is the next big thing I'm working on, and I plan to look into incorporating lists.

I'm probably in the minority, but I would vote against markdown support. There are tons of minimalist markdown editors out there (have a look in the Mac app store for starters). At least make it switch-offable. I'd vote against list automation too, because it changes the way the cursor and keyboard behave. URL detection would be nice though, since it only affects the visual display and mouse behavior. I'd also vote f…

Interesting, thanks for the feedback. I definitely plan on adding an off switch for Markdown, and will only be going through implementation if it doesn't impact speed/usability in a noticeable way. The plan is to make it a minimal implementation (i.e. keyboard shortcuts only) and barely something you would notice you had.

The reason I'd like to add it is because having switched over from TextEdit and Evernote, the one thing I miss are the Cmd+B,I,Us etc.

Re: Show HN: 5iler – a repurposable minimalist notepad

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Two requests: 1) I'd like the titles to be Markdown-friendly headings instead of C comments, personally. 2) I'm not sure if this is within scope - maybe this is just something to do on my own in Dropbox - but it would be neat if there were an 'archive' button. Let's say I'm done with one of my files and I want to clear it out. Push the button, and that file would be moved to archived/DATETIME.txt or something like th…

Hi! Thanks for the feedback.

1) I'm working on implementing Markdown and will be using friendly headings once we sort that out.

2) I love this idea! In fact, it's been on my wishlist for some time now -- I plan on shipping it this week. I've been calling it "Snapshot Backup", but I think "Archive" is a much better word for it. Thank you :)

Re: Show HN: 5iler – a repurposable minimalist notepad

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Appreciate it :) Actually, you can already use Ctrl+Numbers -- command is essentially just an alias for Macs (i.e. the Shortcuts modal is the misleading part).

I was a bit obtuse in my original comment. Ctrl does work fine. I then tried Alt since that's in the position of the Cmd key, but that didn't work (which is a good thing because then it doesn't eat the browser's tab switch keys.) Of course the same is also true on Windows.

I've updated the Shortcuts help screen on Windows :)

Re: Show HN: 5iler – a repurposable minimalist notepad

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post #48

Two requests: 1) I'd like the titles to be Markdown-friendly headings instead of C comments, personally. 2) I'm not sure if this is within scope - maybe this is just something to do on my own in Dropbox - but it would be neat if there were an 'archive' button. Let's say I'm done with one of my files and I want to clear it out. Push the button, and that file would be moved to archived/DATETIME.txt or something like th…

Update: I've implemented the "Archive" feature. Thanks again for the suggestion! http://5iler.com/

Re: Show HN: 5iler – a repurposable minimalist notepad

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I don't get what the 'insert line divider' is meant to be. It seems to just insert a large, fixed amount of whitespace characters?

Try it out! It's a hyphen-based separator I found myself using to divide chunks of text. For now it almost functions as "sub-notes" feature. The keyboard shortcut is Cmd/Ctrl + /

Yes, I did try it out-- for me at least, on FF/Win7, it just inserts about 20 whitespace characters.

Re: Show HN: 5iler – a repurposable minimalist notepad

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I was a bit obtuse in my original comment. Ctrl does work fine. I then tried Alt since that's in the position of the Cmd key, but that didn't work (which is a good thing because then it doesn't eat the browser's tab switch keys.) Of course the same is also true on Windows.

I've updated the Shortcuts help screen on Windows :)

Still missing in one place. When you hide the menu the little tool tip says to use cmd + E to restore it.
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