Does anyone know if there is a JS editor that acts similar to how notion works? I've seen a similar pattern with readme.io, and would love to be able to use it for internal tools.
Notion – Document Reimagined
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Re: Notion – Document Reimagined
#22This reminds me of hypercard!
True, though this is closer to OpenDoc which was document-centric: a document would contain widgets from a variety of components, in contrast to an app being a silo for data it created.
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#23Every note taker I've found gets the building block unit wrong. The building block unit shouldn't be stylized text with media - it should be content that is digested and summarized. Quotes from books. Summarized web pages - either automatically or through a clean UI experience. Snippets of video. Wikipedia/dictionary snippets.
Stylized text marries content with design. Having the content be rich objects makes your primary work to summarize instead of stylize, which makes much more sense in research driven contexts (which is pretty much everywhere).
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#24Every note taker I've found gets the building block unit wrong. The building block unit shouldn't be stylized text with media - it should be content that is digested and summarized. Quotes from books. Summarized web pages - either automatically or through a clean UI experience. Snippets of video. Wikipedia/dictionary snippets. Stylized text marries content with design. Having the content be rich objects makes your pr…
Ah, cool! Yes, I completely agree. I'm actually working on something a bit like this which puts blocks of content as the building block.
It's ideal in an educational authoring platform - since you can have some people crafting the content and others curating it by linking groups of content together. It's important to cater to both needs, I think.
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#25Does anyone know if there is a JS editor that acts similar to how notion works? I've seen a similar pattern with readme.io, and would love to be able to use it for internal tools.
The closest is ckeditor, I think. But that's still a long shot away.
Notion is actually really well constructed (as somebody who's been in the space building tools kinda like it for a while, it's quite impressive). But I agree, the space needs an open source notion...
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#26This is one of the most gorgeous things I've seen in a while. I'm a little saddened that the homepage doesn't work on Firefox yet.
What's broken? I see it just fine in FF40
(With Firefox 40.0.3)
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#27Fantastic onboarding flow! The "wow"-ing feature gifs followed by your interactive tutorial sold me. Also beautiful use of web components.
I'm curious how far you think you can take contenteditable with all its cross-browser quirks.
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#28Does anyone know if there is a JS editor that acts similar to how notion works? I've seen a similar pattern with readme.io, and would love to be able to use it for internal tools.
Hey! ReadMe.io founder here. We custom built ours, because we couldn't find anything else on the market that worked the way we wanted.
The closest I've found otherwise is ContendBuilder.js:
http://www.innovastudio.com/content-builder.aspx
SirTrevor is similar, but without drag+drop:
http://madebymany.github.io/sir-trevor-js/example.html
For us, it was built using two linked jQuery Sortable lists (the sidebar, and the actual content). It's easier than it sounds, especially with Angular :)
Re: Notion – Document Reimagined
#29Every note taker I've found gets the building block unit wrong. The building block unit shouldn't be stylized text with media - it should be content that is digested and summarized. Quotes from books. Summarized web pages - either automatically or through a clean UI experience. Snippets of video. Wikipedia/dictionary snippets. Stylized text marries content with design. Having the content be rich objects makes your pr…
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#30I'm not kidding, this is one of the best things I've seen lately. I basically write for a living and this looks like a real gamechanger.
If you can keep up this quality and fulfill all the promises, I'll be willing to pay a good deal of money for it.