Show HN: CrushPaper – Open-Source Workflowy and Evernote for Writers, Students
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Re: Show HN: CrushPaper – Open-Source Workflowy and Evernote for Writers, Students
#2Very nice work! This feels like a great fit, product-wise, for Sandstorm. Have you looked at what that would entail?
Re: Show HN: CrushPaper – Open-Source Workflowy and Evernote for Writers, Students
#3This is nice, but the core keyboard shortcuts are (or so I find) painful and needlessly complex to use. :/
A comparison:
Workflowy -> CrushPaper
Enter -> Alt+s
Enter -> Alt+u/b
Enter + Tab -> Alt+c
This feels like it was designed to be used with a mouse and keyboard shortcuts inexpertly bolted on. :)
After that fix, this is a joy to use. :)
Re: Show HN: CrushPaper – Open-Source Workflowy and Evernote for Writers, Students
#4Not too relevant, but the background reminds me of Github 404 page.
Re: Show HN: CrushPaper – Open-Source Workflowy and Evernote for Writers, Students
#5Not too relevant, but the background reminds me of Github 404 page. https://github.com/asdflkjsad
I hadn't realized that. Do you think that is good or bad?
Re: Show HN: CrushPaper – Open-Source Workflowy and Evernote for Writers, Students
#6Very nice work! This feels like a great fit, product-wise, for Sandstorm. Have you looked at what that would entail?
That is a great suggestion. Thank you for pointing that out. So far I haven't thought about that at all.
Re: Show HN: CrushPaper – Open-Source Workflowy and Evernote for Writers, Students
#7This is nice, but the core keyboard shortcuts are (or so I find) painful and needlessly complex to use. :/ A comparison: Workflowy -> CrushPaper Enter -> Alt+s Enter -> Alt+u/b Enter + Tab -> Alt+c This feels like it was designed to be used with a mouse and keyboard shortcuts inexpertly bolted on. :) After that fix, this is a joy to use. :)
Thank you for the feedback!
I think one of the major UI differences between Workflowy and CrushPaper is that CrushPaper aims to support multiline notes and quotations. I often paste snippets of code into CrushPaper but that does not seem to work well in Workflowy. In Workflowy you can create multiline notes with Shift+Enter, but then you don't seem to be able to navigate to those lines with the keyboard.
CrushPaper can definitely be changed to use Enter+Tab instead of Alt+c.
Perhaps Alt+Enter should insert a new line within a note, and Enter should create a new note. When I experimented with that during user testing no user guessed that it was possible to create multi-line notes.
Re: Show HN: CrushPaper – Open-Source Workflowy and Evernote for Writers, Students
#8https://github.com/abhshkdz/HackFlowy is a clone of Workflowy, unfortunately it's not being developed anymore
Re: Show HN: CrushPaper – Open-Source Workflowy and Evernote for Writers, Students
#9https://github.com/abhshkdz/HackFlowy is a clone of Workflowy, unfortunately it's not being developed anymore
Which, on a side note, could be a fun place to start learning node - just a random thought. I still have big troubles finding myself enough time, persistency to go through all node noise, find good framework, etc. Worth checking out ;)
Re: Show HN: CrushPaper – Open-Source Workflowy and Evernote for Writers, Students
#10https://github.com/abhshkdz/HackFlowy is a clone of Workflowy, unfortunately it's not being developed anymore
I like that project!
I wrote most of CrushPaper before finding out about Workflowy or HackFlowy, but I tried to take a different path from HackFlowy.
CrushPaper is hopefully easy to deploy because it is a single executable JAR.
CrushPaper is hopefully easy to contribute to because all of the server code is in Java.
CrushPaper has unit tests. I am always surprised when people are willing to store their information in an app that doesn't have any test coverage.