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

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Post by jonatanheyman »

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 couldn't find the shortcut to change the language until I hovered over the status bar element for it. It should have a menu item with the keyboard shortcut on it.

Noted. Will fix!

> Doesn't respect the system light/dark mode, it should by default (but perhaps with an app specific override as some people like that)

The light/dark toggle has three states. Light/Dark/Whatever the system is set to (default). If it's set to the third mode, it should respect the system mode. Otherwise it's a bug!

> The green branding is ok, but it's quite a strong personality for an app to have. Do you want the app to have a strong personality?

I do like the design (though I'm sure it could be improved ofcourse).

> - 427MB is huge

Yes, unfortunately that comes with Electron.

> Would be great to have a help reference in the app, or at least a docs page on the website that the help menu links to.

Yeah, goo point, will fix!

> Would be great to be able to change the font.

Maybe :)

> Where is the data saved?

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). It's saved as soon as you edit with a small debounce.

The data location is currently not configurable, and Heynote currently doesn't support reloading changes from the disk (except on startup), so at the moment it wouldn't work well to synchronize through a file syncing service if you were running Heynote on multiple machines. This is something I'd like to fix though.

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

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Post by space_ghost »

Nitpicks:

* On Linux, clicking the main "Download / Linux AppImage" button results in Windows .exe download instead of an .appimage. Clicking on the down arrow and selecting Linux does work, however.

* The opening sentence of the description includes "it's" instead of the more correct "its".

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

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Post by jonatanheyman »

space_ghost wrote: post #23

Nitpicks: * On Linux, clicking the main "Download / Linux AppImage" button results in Windows .exe download instead of an .appimage. Clicking on the down arrow and selecting Linux does work, however. * The opening sentence of the description includes "it's" instead of the more correct "its".

The link has been fixed. Thanks!

And thanks for the grammar correction - I always keep doing that error (it's instead of its).

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

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Post by AstroJetson »

skottenborg wrote: post #14
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?

Very old PLC controllers in a mfg plant. You would be wildly (de)(im)pressed with the amount of equipment that is tied to W7 because of dongles, etc.

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

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Post by bovermyer »

skottenborg wrote: post #14
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?

The usual reason is business-critical software that only runs on Windows 7.

Source: I've worked for multiple companies with very niche software that only works on certain OSes.

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

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Post by cyberge99 »

jonatanheyman wrote: post #28
chernoby wrote: post #26

It would be perfect that you add this on brew because most corporate mac users have no permission to download these type dmg except brew

Interesting! Do you know of any other Electron apps that can be installed via Brew?

I think he’s referring to a managed/corporate provided Mac machine.
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