This is pretty slick. Unobtrusive prompt and then you get a pretty intrusive drop-down. Pretty it up. It has a wonderful response and flow and I would be interested in using this in future projects.
The dropdown is part of the Notion styling.
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#122Are there any examples of something similar that has the ability to seamlessly interact with tables as well? Notion seems to be the only player in the space that effectively uses its tables as linkable databases, most similar products seem to either lack table functionality or they're just simple formatted text. So much of my daily work revolves around databases and Excel, I would love the ability to have multiple vi…
You've basically described Coda: https://coda.io
It has far more data power than Coda, with tables that can be used as databases, a strong formula language, and loads of other nifty features. Like Notion, it's a closed-source SaaS.
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Mine: https://hypertext.plus Pure HTML document editor. Open source, PWA, based on TinyMCE, with CSS and markup editing, JS macros, saves to local drive, plus OpenAI integration if you have a key.
The features sound great. Some advice though: - I was about to tell you that there really should be a demo, but just now I realized the "World Wide Web Phase 2 Begins Here" button links to the demo. You really should change that text to "Live Demo" or something more clear. - The demo itself takes a long time to load and seemed to refresh multiple times - The GitHub should also have a link to the demo, and an image wo…
Aww man! I liked my bespoke landing page! I thought it was a nice change from the bog standard templates.
But good feedback all around, thanks!
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fyi, from my experience it’s still quite a lot of work to build on top of Prosemirror and TipTap directly to do so. So I’ve started working on https://www.blocknotejs.org to make this even easier for developers; its a batteries-included library with Notion style UI elements out of the box. Definitely bullish on this ecosystem including Yjs and local first dev!
Can this be used in Svelte or is it only for React?
The landing page they linked suggests it’s possible, but makes it sound like it might be more work to do so:
> BlockNote is built for React and exposes easy-to-use components. However, it is possible to use BlockNote with other frameworks or Vanilla JS (advanced users).
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#126This is an awesome project!
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#127I’ve basically completely stopped using notion after they crammed “AI” in there with absolutely no option to turn it off without a business tier plan (even more $$$ than the personal). If I want to use chat gpt I’m gonna open that in a completely separate window and interact with it there, I cannot stand LLMs being unceremoniously shoved into seemingly every pre-existing tool I use.
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“Normal users” have JS enabled and don’t care how much JS you send them. They don’t even know what it is. I feel like if you’re targeting a no-JS crowd, that’s a very specific crowd, i.e. this one.
I would like to add: If the GP goes for any JS based solution, they should make sure to serve the JS themselves, and not outsource it to 3 CDNs. For us not liking JS too much people, the next best thing to no JS is little JS server by the website's server itself. Best with most of the website already rendering without JS, so that we see things when hitting the website and may consider it worth allowing its first part…
I do plan on self-hosting all (the very select few i use) JS and CSS. It's part of the binary for dead simple self-hosting. I'm going to attempt to be very privacy friendly, as much as possible, which will be an interesting adventure because it's ActivityPub related.
Regardless this is all just an exercise for me because, frankly, i hate most websites lol. The ones that look good also tend to be slow. The ones that are fast look like they're from 1990. There has to be a middleground, right?
I love that feeling of visiting some (very few) sites and they load so fast you have to double-take. I want to be that site. I want accessibility to be forefront. etc
We'll see how far i can get. I'm just a humble backend dev hah. But the site being 95% plain HTML is a good start, at the very least.