I’m on mobile. Seems cool though I’d love to see something more than words..
Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
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Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And what do we do with our ideas when they arise? Well, we scroll to the bottom of the document and jot them down, copy and paste them, rearrange them, and hope we'll remember to come back to them. I write erotic novels as a hobby. I legit thought no one else does this (putting random unorganized ideas at the bottom of the document). I am genuinely pleased to know I am not the only one.
I used to do that a lot, then I started using a second window of markdown for notes and save both documents next to each other.
> I used to do that a lot, then I started using a second window of markdown for notes and save both documents next to each other.
Ditto, except that I use Vim on a single file with vertical splits, so that that I have different parts of the same file in view at the same time.
With a large monitor I typically have 3x vertical splits on the same file.
Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#73I'm sorry but the home page is a weird screenshot of disjointed paragraphs that tells me nothing about how your product "supports the writing process". I'm not even sure what the text being edited is from that page. To be clear, I find the pitch appealing, but the product ???.
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Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#74I'm sorry but the home page is a weird screenshot of disjointed paragraphs that tells me nothing about how your product "supports the writing process". I'm not even sure what the text being edited is from that page. To be clear, I find the pitch appealing, but the product ???.
From reading the about[0] page, it seems to be word processing application combined with post-it notes to organise ideas while writing.
Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#75Open source? Closed? Web-app only? Locally installable? Privacy policy? Pricing? Would you be happier if it made you money or if a community helped you build it?
If I'm being perfectly honest, it never even occurred to me to consider the open source route. I'm not opposed to open source at all--I've done in the past--but one issue could be that I might loose the ability to be highly opinionated about the evolution of the product, and I think in this space where there are already a ton of "do a lot of things halfway decently" products, being opinionated about what Lunette is a…
> but one issue could be that I might loose the ability to be highly opinionated about the evolution of the product
I hate to be that person, but you're pitching an app for authors, developed by yourself who is a self-described author, and you're mixing up 'loose' and 'lose' :-(
In any other context, this wouldn't matter, and with actual typos it wouldn't matter, but in this context with this particular word, it does reflect negatively.
> I think in this space where there are already a ton of "do a lot of things halfway decently" products, being opinionated about what Lunette is and is not could be key to its success.
You're quite correct. Having a narrow focus on the goal is better than trying to be all things to all people, otherwise sooner or later you're going to be fielding requests from people who used it to write the business docs and need non-book related features.
I am also doing something similar (am not really an author, made a few hundred dollars with self-published books and short stories a decade ago and then moved on), and I have an even narrower focus than you do.
Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#76KeenWrite, my free and open-source (R) Markdown editor, has a fair amount of overlap with Lunette. From the other thread comments, here are a few items that KeenWrite has: * Offline editing * Dark mode * Manuscript theme * Separates content from presentation * Automatically curls straight quotes Here's a tutorial showing how themes (and variables) work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QpX70O5S30 I've been dog-foodin…
I am quite the avid sci-fi reader. I have never been an alpha reader, and I am intrigued at the prospect. What does it entail?
Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to do that a lot, then I started using a second window of markdown for notes and save both documents next to each other.
> I used to do that a lot, then I started using a second window of markdown for notes and save both documents next to each other. Ditto, except that I use Vim on a single file with vertical splits, so that that I have different parts of the same file in view at the same time. With a large monitor I typically have 3x vertical splits on the same file.
I do this too with my iA writer windows - 3 columns with various ideas and texts. What I found is that the slim width of each window helps me to write better. Broad windows with their endlessly long lines made me loss focus on what I was writing.
Perhaps it comes from me being a 80-character line limit programmer and have always limited the width of my editor.
Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#78I was delighted to see that the document understands Markdown (for the formatting that you allow)!
It recognised URL's but they a not clickable. Nice to have clickable links.
Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#79Thought to drop by and mention that you may want to pivot on the name as Lunette is a menstrual cup brand: https://www.lunette.com/
Good luck on the development!
Re: Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
#80This seems to be aimed at Scrivener's niche. What advantages do you offer? https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview
I find Scapple[1] more interesting since it comes close to what I'm playing around with. I've started using Node-RED[2] as a mind-map for my ideas and thoughts. I've created custom nodes to provide a categorization for ideas, thoughts, observations, inspiration etc. As I a see fit I link nodes together. The end result is a chaotic mind-map which I call a writermap since the entire mind-map is executable. Between any two points in the mind-map I can create a document with all the paths that link those two points. The document is just a concatenation of all the nodes visited along the way.
Taking this a step further, I thought about creating a global mind-map whereby everyone contributes their mind-maps into interconnected open mind-map. I had this idea because I realised that I had mapped my information bubble in creating my mind-map. But how do I get out of my information bubble? Hence the idea of an open mind-map[2] to navigate through other peoples mind-maps out of my information bubble.