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Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

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Post by perryraskin »

danpalmer wrote: post #4
jonatanheyman wrote: post #2

I'd love to get some feedback also :). Heynote Github Repo: https://github.com/heyman/heynote

Hey! Nice app, I've always had scratch pads around for things like this and never had a particularly good solution for them. Soulver is nice but too maths focused, a tab in VSCode in nice but it's a pain to manage multiple buffers for different languages. I like the feature set here. A few bits of feedback for potential improvements or clarifications... - I couldn't find the shortcut to change the language until I ho…

I agree re the app icon - it would look great and still unique by simply removing the name.

Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

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Post by skottenborg »

AstroJetson wrote: post #5

I was bummed since it uses the entry point DiscardVirtualMemory and for some reason it won't work on Windows 7 (Yea, I'm still using W7 for "Work Reasons")

Out of curiosity, what use case can possibly warrant using Windows 7 in 2023?

Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

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Post by jonatanheyman »

maineldc wrote: post #3

I just downloaded and installed and I am really impressed. I liked the concept of math blocks though it took me a few seconds to figure out how to change a new block into a math block. This note at the top wasn't clear to me: ⌘ + L Change block language The phrase block language didn't trigger my "change the type of block" thinking. I might slightly rephrase like: ⌘ + L Change block language (Math, Markdown, etc.) Ot…

Good suggestion, I'll change that!

Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

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Post by rswail »

rswail wrote: post #8

Cool, been looking for new tools to help collect the mess that is my notes. Nice and simple, as a tool like this should be. A few questions after playing for a few minutes: * Where are the notes stored? * Can I delete a block easily? * After creating an additional cursor (great extra feature btw) how do I stop creating them, and/or remove one I've created?

Answered my own question on the additional cursor, Esc takes you back to a single cursor.

Great way to make a list. Start with a number, make your list, then use the additional cursor to add in a checkbox.

Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

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Post by jonatanheyman »

rswail wrote: post #8

Cool, been looking for new tools to help collect the mess that is my notes. Nice and simple, as a tool like this should be. A few questions after playing for a few minutes: * Where are the notes stored? * Can I delete a block easily? * After creating an additional cursor (great extra feature btw) how do I stop creating them, and/or remove one I've created?

> Where are the notes stored?

The whole buffer is stored in a file called buffer.txt located in the user data directory (varies depending on platform, on Mac it's ~/Library/Application Support/Heynote, on Linux ~/.config/Heynote).

> Can I delete a block easily?

I do that by pressing: C-A Backspace Backspace.

> After creating an additional cursor (great extra feature btw) how do I stop creating them, and/or remove one I've created?

Pressing ESC (or C-G in Emacs mode) should remove all extra cursors.

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