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Off the top of your head, what might be a better shortcut scheme for Zeminary?
Almost anything else would be better. Apple-Q closes chrome.
I'll have to create a diff shortcut scheme for Apple users.
Show HN: A spreadsheet for writers
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#53You need a high-speed 15 second GIF/mp4 screencast with keypresses visible (maybe use a trial of Camtasia) if you think all the hotkeys should be used a lot. At least a screenshot or two of a "document" in progress! (Screenshots here apparently: https://twitter.com/Zeminary/status/1432195697449766921 , though it would be cool to show a complex document.) Also, set the title attribute on your navbar item divs and moda…
Thanks for the GIF suggestion. Thanks for catching those UTF-8 errors. Thanks for letting me know about the title attribute. Yeah, I actually used it exactly like a higher resolution Trello to plan out this and other apps and the roadmap. I'll make an example document sometime soon and post it on hackernews as guerilla marketing.
Make sure you link to it from here as well.
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#54I use treesheets in a similar manner. I like that it's an offline app. And light weight.
What does thisvdo that treesheets doesn't?
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the GIF suggestion. Thanks for catching those UTF-8 errors. Thanks for letting me know about the title attribute. Yeah, I actually used it exactly like a higher resolution Trello to plan out this and other apps and the roadmap. I'll make an example document sometime soon and post it on hackernews as guerilla marketing.
Make sure you link to it from here as well.
I will!
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#56not too shabby, might use it, bookmarking it for later :). As others suggested: Hover infos over the controls would help tremendously. Just a quick question: Is your text formatting based on markdown? If yes, is there an option for the user to enter markdown code?
Finished testing it.
The markdown module works well as long as you don't use the fulleditor and the floateditor. But this creates an inconsistent user experience. I've decided to leave it out as a core feature for now.
I'll revisit it in the future. If I can fix it, great. If I can't, I might put it in with warnings that it doesn't work for the fulleditor and the floateditor.
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#57I use treesheets in a similar manner. I like that it's an offline app. And light weight. What does thisvdo that treesheets doesn't?
(I'm in a kind of rush and your comment really inspired me, so the organization in this reply is pretty bad.)
Well, there's nothing this or Treesheets does that nothing else (in MS Office) can't do or approximate. It's just different degrees of freedom and fuckupability. More degrees of freedom means more ways to misdirect attention. This is very bad for classicalish artists who have to take in the whole work and make and edit each part with the whole in mind. But also for people writing long books. Zeminary is biased towards getting big things done.
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Things off the top of my head A
I had a discussion a while ago about how email being uneditable is actually a feature. It forces you to focus more on writing and less on editing. Email threads also force you to understand a thing in time. Being able to forward and do emaily things helps you to get feedback. All this helps to free you from perfection so that you can / are free to perfect. But the foundation is uneditability.
Standardization comes with limits. It makes for better communicability. People aren't met with the possibility of a mess of explicit hierarchies. Authors aren't so freely given the possibility.
Limits are features.
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Things off the top of my head B
It's easier to get into FPSs vs MOBAs because you only need to know a few things to get started. WASD to move. SPACE to jump. Leftclick to shoot. Rightclick to zoom. Something to crouch with, something to sprint with. It's also easier to get into some MOBAs than others because you only need to know a few maps and movesets. Both types of games are very fun, very profitable, very complicated. But FPSs are obviously easier for people to pick up on and enjoy — the learning curve to complex fun ratio is just better.
I deleted links & backlinks from Matrix / Tensor Classic in the last week before the launch. I'm saving them & alot of other things for Matrix / Tensor Pro. I think links and references lock you prematurely into premature mental models. I know for some of my artwork, I've iterated on the concept alone 50 to 100 times, then on the work itself 50 to 100 times.
One of my overarching principles for life and work is the "Multidimensional Thermopylae". I try to limit the surface areas of confrontation (making apps, doing things, etc.) to just a single point or easily addressable set of points, then I punch with everything I got. I try to set up my life to maximize those "Multidimensional Thermopylaes".
Zeminary is meant to be a "Multidimensional Thermopylae" for certain kinds of work, (chordal/contrapuntal/holistic thinking).
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#58Zeminary is in Alpha until September 7th
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Alot of people asked for usecases. I'll make example documents in the future. Some off the top of my head:
(1) translating & comparing & annotating translations
(2) annotating dense works in humanities / philosophy and law
(3) annotating books & film scripts & editing them & playing with their text
(4) writing an essay where i have to juggle many ideas at once / i put the ideas on the side or the comments while weaving them into the draft (like joecool1029)
(5) planning the company roadmap / the vertical line is events by time / the horizontal is extra details about the event
(6) storyboarding films / keeping track of characters, settings, cameras, etc.
(7) writing a book