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

#61

Neat, minimalist idea. I like it. Small nitpicky feedback: Your keyboard shortcuts say to use cmd + 1/2/3 to switch files. In Safari, that will load the first/second/third bookmark. The correct shortcut for Safari is ctrl + 1/2/3

Thanks! I'll update the Shortcuts modal to reflect this.

Three finger swipe on the mac app would also be wonderful. Any chance of open sourcing this?

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

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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 on…

Have you thought about a subtle markdown support like a syntax highlighter? Vim does this for example. Bold things get displayed bold with there stars, headings get bold and colored (red in my case). It allows to read the markdown source and have the effect of formatting at the same time.

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

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Neat, minimalist idea. I like it. Small nitpicky feedback: Your keyboard shortcuts say to use cmd + 1/2/3 to switch files. In Safari, that will load the first/second/third bookmark. The correct shortcut for Safari is ctrl + 1/2/3

On Windows there is no Cmd button at all...

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

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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.

It also recommends Cmd + S as a way to enforce synchronization
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