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Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
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Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
#72Kinda crazy that it took this long to get a Note++ equivalent (or similar) for macOS! Until now I've been using Sublime for all my quick dev-related scratch notes. This should make things way way better!!
Do you mean Notepad++? If so, that strikes me funny, because I've long thought of Notepad++ as a Windows thing that's kind of similar to BBEdit[1], which is a 25 year-old Mac editor. If not, what are you thinking of? [1]( https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.html )
D'oh, yes, I do mean Notepad++. I haven't used Windows in a while
But good point, I totally forgot about BBEdit
Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
#73I'd love a macOS menubar icon for Heynote. I currently use Evernote's Quick Note feature from its menubar app.
Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
#74This is excellent Please add a donation button to allow us to thank you for your work
Thanks!
Please send that donation to some organization that help people in greater need than me, on my behalf instead :).
Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
#75very good concept! i really would like to have this as a Web-app instead of downloading it...
Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
#76I'd love a macOS menubar icon for Heynote. I currently use Evernote's Quick Note feature from its menubar app.
I'll look into it!
Not what you asked for, but slightly related: You can set a global hotkey that shows/hides Heynote.
Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
#77Initial thoughts: 1. It looks beautiful and useful. Very nice work! 2. I love the math sections. 3. I was shocked how large the download was. 4. It's chewing enough memory between the GUI and the (3!) helper processes that I will probably continue to use BBEdit for this kind of thing. I think it will be useful to a lot of people... I like it and could see myself using it sometimes even if it feels too heavy to keep i…
Yeah, large file sizes and some RAM overhead is a drawback that comes with Electron apps. However, it would never have been possible for me to make Heynote for all of Mac, Windows and Linux, on my spare time and within a reasonable timeframe, without Electron. Also, the CPU usage overhead for Heynote is minimal. It's one of the apps I use the most, and it's never among the programs that have used the most CPU. Yes, 2…
a web app (PWA) would be perfect :)
Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
#78I 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!
It would be nice with some documentation of what the Math mode supports, e.g. syntax, units, functions.
It can be difficult to figure out why some lines are interpreted ok and while others fail.
How to convert between fahrenheit and celsius?
Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
#79very good concept! i really would like to have this as a Web-app instead of downloading it...
I've entertained the thought of adding a web version of Heynote to heynote.com (using local storage for persistence).
Re: Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
#80This looks great. I currently use Sublime Text for this. Can easily see using this. Thank you for building it.