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

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Post by cyberge99 »

jonatanheyman wrote: post #18
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…

So I can use grep and pbcopy to interact with this on the CLI. Too cool! Thank you for a great app.

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

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Post by Otek »

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?

There are lots of them. You should checkout “brew cask”

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

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Post by chernoby »

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?

Postman, mattermost, 1Password most of it can be installed by brew and they using electron

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

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Post by michaelrpeskin »

I love this! I typically use a separate text editor for things like this, but the block idea is great and works with how my brain likes to group things.

I know this is expanding the scope and complexity and probably opposite to what you're trying to do, but one thing that would be cool is to have different tabs. In my current workflow, I have a notepad for "working memory" which Heynote will easily replace. I also have a separate one to track the things I worked on each day. I need to have a record of who I charged for what incase I get audited. I could totally see having a block for each day - and I wouldn't want that intermingled with the other data.

Oh I would love it if you could render markdown as formatted html a la Typora

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

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Post by chernoby »

cyberge99 wrote: post #30
jonatanheyman wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

yes absolutely talking about that.

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

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Post by jonatanheyman »

toppy wrote: post #7

Absolutely love it! I've been looking for such a tool for a long time. Just a looooong text file when I can write my snippets. I like UI, icon and even the name :) One suggestion - make it collapsable.

Thanks :)!

Do you mean that the blocks should be collapsable? If so, blocks should be collapsable by clicking the small arrow to the right of the first line number. For some reason it seems that Markdown blocks aren't collapsable though - I'm going to investigate why.

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

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Post by dustinsterk »

Great work, I like this a lot. Some feedback:

- It would be great to have the options of having tabs so that I could group my notes into a Math specific tab, or raw notes, code, etc.

- Another option to the above tabs would be to sort the blocks by type (grouping all the Math at the top for example).

- Having the ability to then save each block into a separate file.

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