Love the password-less login!
Thanks! I'm sticking to it. Why trust anyone with passwords these days. I may add social logins though.
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#52I'm a bit conflicted - I actually quite like both the skeuomorphism and the 3D transitions separately, but the two in combination doesn't really make much sense to me!
I hear you. It was actually supposed to be like you're looking down at a desk and then seem as if you were moving your head up at the bookshelf. The bookshelf doesn't move so it's a bit odd right now.
BTW, thanks for not going completely flat.
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#53FYI, this app just crashed Firefox 33 on Ubuntu 12.04.
What video card/drivers? Open source or closed binaries? It's working great for me on Debian 7 (wheezy), which is similar to Ubuntu 12.04, w/ non-standard Firefox 38.0a2 Dev Edition and nvidia/GL closed-source drivers.
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#55Is there a reason why typing is so slow? It seems like it's really chugging away on something as I type. I would guess there's a 500ms or so delay between hitting a key and it ending up on the notepad. Same goes for clicking to change the cursor placement.
Could it be that it is slow because localStorage is updated on every keypress?
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#56Is there a reason why typing is so slow? It seems like it's really chugging away on something as I type. I would guess there's a 500ms or so delay between hitting a key and it ending up on the notepad. Same goes for clicking to change the cursor placement.
If you could tell me some of the specs of your system so I can check why it is so laggy that would be great. One thing that is hacky/a problem with the app is that I wanted to be able to hash tag notes and have the hashtags a different color. Also very soon i'd like to add the ability to highlight text. It's pretty hard to do that smoothly even with the contenteditable attribute. I decided on a transparent textarea o…
As an extra data point, the typing speed is fine on my old 1.6 Ghz Athlon 2650e, 2G RAM (running FF 36.0.4 under Arch Linux)
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#57Its fantastic. Simple on the one hand, but pretty sophisticated on the other.
A UI suggestion: When I am "in" a box, there should be a clear indicator of how to go back to the top level. The "x" for closing the box is a little too subtle, and possibly overoaded with "delete". I'd rather see a back arrow utilized. Hovertips helped of course.
I also think when your view is with the box open, then adding a note should by default add that new note to be a child of the box.
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#58The note text box breaks iOS autocomplete support. It's doing something funky where the keyboard api can't recognize previous words. May want to consider just using a native text box instead of something custom and funky with JavaScript. Will probably resolve the typing performance issues others have mentioned.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hmm, yea I made it so that each password token can only be used once in case someone gets a hold of your email. I can see how that can be annoying. I'll work on a solution to that. Thanks for the feedback.
If someone gets a hold of your email, they could easily request another login token anyway. I think it's fine if it doesn't expire.
Now I remember why I made it expire and/or only usable once. Consider public places or caching. Since the temporary authentication token is exposed in the URL there is a risk that someone else can reuse it. Whereas if it's a one time temporary token then you should be OK. I think I need to be more explicit in that this is a one time token. The whole passwordless thing is new so there are some pain points.
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#60Is there a reason why typing is so slow? It seems like it's really chugging away on something as I type. I would guess there's a 500ms or so delay between hitting a key and it ending up on the notepad. Same goes for clicking to change the cursor placement.
If you could tell me some of the specs of your system so I can check why it is so laggy that would be great. One thing that is hacky/a problem with the app is that I wanted to be able to hash tag notes and have the hashtags a different color. Also very soon i'd like to add the ability to highlight text. It's pretty hard to do that smoothly even with the contenteditable attribute. I decided on a transparent textarea o…
If you need "machine specs" for a simple note-taking app something more fundamental seems to be wrong.
It's a note-taking app. It should run fine on a 1980s calculator