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Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by tardygrad »

I've tried lots of docs tools, but the one I've found works best for me is a self-hosted Dokuwiki.

Dokuwiki stores it's output in text files (not in a database) so installation is as simple as unzipping an archive, and a cron job to copy the docs directory to s3 weekly takes care of backups.

As a plus, you can easily allow collaboration since it is a wiki after all. Needless to say, you can use it on any platform with a Web browser.

Lack of support for markdown is the only shortcoming, but the wiki syntax is easy enough to learn.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by trengrj »

I use Typora https://typora.io/ which has most of the functionality including Markdown, Code blocks with syntax highlighting, LateX segments, and is more importantly free and cross platform.

It has recently added file list preview and tree view like functionality. Only missing on tags which are tricky because they break its pure markdown flat file philosophy.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by wyclif »

trengrj wrote: post #22

I use Typora https://typora.io/ which has most of the functionality including Markdown, Code blocks with syntax highlighting, LateX segments, and is more importantly free and cross platform. It has recently added file list preview and tree view like functionality. Only missing on tags which are tricky because they break its pure markdown flat file philosophy.

It's a shame Typora doesn't spend a little time editing their site copy English. I could tell right away the creator isn't a native English speaker, but he could probably get someone in the Typora community to give the copy a once-over.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by roadbeats »

Having a personal notebook is a game changer. If you don't have yet, I highly recommend, tool is not that important...

I just use Emacs and Markdown. It's like my permanent memory, and it's public: https://github.com/azer/notebook

I even got a pull request once about a note on parenting :) Specifically about coding, the best thing is, I can quickly open a note within my editor.

For example, I forget some rules about Bash all the time. Instead of Googling the same thing over and over, I open the bash programming notes with a few key presses, check the rule, close the note. This happens really fast as I use Emacs for both coding and taking notes.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by codetrotter »

hliyan wrote: post #8

Wouldn't a customizable version of http://devdocs.io/ have been a better sell?

Speaking of which, imagine combining that with a search tool that could also see what windows you had open and which one was in focus and the search tool could ask your text editors and IDEs to tell it what language was in use at the current cursor position and use that for filtering results.

So I press meta + space on my keyboard and a search box overlay pops up on my desktop.

The search box talks to my text editor and IDE windows and learns that currently I have an IDE open with Python 3 code in focus and aditonally I have two HTML files and three JavaScript files open.

I type date.

First result is Python 3 date module documentation from the official Python 3 docs of which I have a local copy.

Second result is HTML5 date element documentation from MDN of which I have a local copy.

Third result is JS Date object documentation from MDN of which I have a local copy.

Furthermore there are results of local copies of Stack Overflow questions about Python 3, HTML5 or JS that talk about “date”.

That’d be quite nice.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by wernsey »

I would love something like this to replace Evernote, but being able to synchronize my notes between work and home is what keeps me locked in.

Also, can one of these apps add the ability to cross-reference notes? I used Wiki On A Stick back in the day and being able to cross reference notes was a killer feature for me.

I stopped using it because of all the hoops you have to jump through to get it working on modern browsers.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by Singletoned »

roadbeats wrote: post #25

Having a personal notebook is a game changer. If you don't have yet, I highly recommend, tool is not that important... I just use Emacs and Markdown. It's like my permanent memory, and it's public: https://github.com/azer/notebook I even got a pull request once about a note on parenting :) Specifically about coding, the best thing is, I can quickly open a note within my editor. For example, I forget some rules about…

Apart from it being a bunch of Markdown files, what tools do you use with it?

I keep trying org-mode but keep getting annoyed that it isn't Markdown. I'd love to find a Markdown equivalent.

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by djhworld »

I use Quiver for everything.

However it does have its limits (Mac Only) and development has stalled.

I've tried things like emacs with org-mode in the past but it just didn't click for me. I like the simplicity of the Quiver format, just JSON blobs with markdown in them.

For me a notebooking tool needs to have vim keybindings, tagging, searching, inline image support, syntax highlighting and preferably portability.

These threads seem to pop up every 2 - 3 months, and I'm always intrigued at what other people are using, but I just haven't seen anything that matches what Quiver can offer, even if it has some flaws

Re: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook

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Post by reificator »

guessmyname wrote: post #5
mayankkaizen wrote: post #2

Seems interesting and something I need. But it is available only for Mac?

> Seems interesting and something I need. But it is available only for Mac? Yes, which is ironic because the app is packaged using Electron, which is supposed to be cross-platform. The developers should have developed this app using native libraries instead to offer a good performance.

> the app is packaged using Electron

Native developers just can't win anymore. Here someone wrote a native application for macOS using native widgets and getting native performance, and all Hacker News can do is complain that it's Electron-based when it's not.

Seriously, if we're at the point where you just can't tell if it's native or Electron, I think it's time for the anti-Electron brigade to come to an end.

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