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

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Post by porridgeraisin »

porridgeraisin wrote: post #93

Love this. This is exactly what I need. I have been using a WhatsApp group with just me, for this purpose, until now. Feature requests: - arch package - would really like the results of the math to be in buffer.txt and in Ctrl+a and copy. - changing font and color theme(I like the Nord one right now though!) Please keep it minimally colored as it is now so that changing color is just a simple matter of configuring a…

Adding to it:

Saw you mentioned below that you were planning to add a pwa + local storage version. In that case you can disregard my mobile request, and replace it with a download button on mobile so we can sync it to our desktop through git or drive or something.

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

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Post by silvestrov »

jonatanheyman wrote: post #87
silvestrov wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Yes, I've learned that Heynote is lacking some documentation. Will improve that. Math.js ( https://mathjs.org/ ) powers the Math blocks, so what's supported by Math.js should be supported by Heynote, with the addition of currency conversions (exchange rates are updated daily). > How to convert between fahrenheit and celsius? This should work: 10 celsius to fahrenheit

Could it be made to parse "10°C" as "10 celsius" as that is much shorter?

Suggestion: mouse over on green calculated value should show value in multiple formats. E.g. "time = 4000 seconds" could show "01:06:40"

also: "today + 4 days" or "now + 1 day"

Unicode "π" should parse like "PI".

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

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Post by jonatanheyman »

porridgeraisin wrote: post #93

Love this. This is exactly what I need. I have been using a WhatsApp group with just me, for this purpose, until now. Feature requests: - arch package - would really like the results of the math to be in buffer.txt and in Ctrl+a and copy. - changing font and color theme(I like the Nord one right now though!) Please keep it minimally colored as it is now so that changing color is just a simple matter of configuring a…

> would really like the results of the math to be in buffer.txt and in Ctrl+a and copy.

Adding the results to lines that are copied from Math blocks should be doable, and I like that idea! I agree that it would also be nice with the results in buffer.txt, but because of implementation details it's harder to implement I think.

> changing font and color theme

At the moment, I'm leaning towards keeping the number of configurable settings down and not add have font color theme settings.

> timestamp for blocks. especially would be nice if you could store createdAt updatedAt in the line with the infinity symbols in buffer.txt to make it easily extractable using grep and cut.

yes, this is on the TODO

> saw that you mentioned downthread that you're working on reloading the file so that we can back it up with git or whatever. Would love that!

Yes, this too :)

> is mobile possible? Through Cordova or something

Probably not :/

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

#104

Post by qainsights »

Great utility. I rely on Sublime to quickly jot down my thoughts. I will use Heynote going forward. A few suggestions:

1. Can we create multiple tabs with split view? 2. Display stats like word, character count in the status bar. 3. Export options for the notes.

Thanks

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

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Post by AbraKdabra »

I absolutely fucking love this concept, this is basically my Sublime Text but with steroids, everyone using Notion, Obsidian and such apps and here I am with a +10000 lines of plain text where I dump everything and I am more than happy, and this concept only makes it better, it's how I prefer to organize myself but now I can make blocks of it and format it, I love it, really.

This blocks thing reminds me of Toad for SQL which I used extensively years ago, where you could execute queries based on the position of the cursor, great feature.

Any plans to change font and such things? Any general roadmap?

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

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Post by rfreedman »

Looks great - I've been using markdown files and a markdown editor for my dev notes.

But I tend to create a file per week, with notes about what I have to do / have done, etc. by day within the weekly file.

Having one big file for a project that lasts months (or years) would be unworkable.

I'd like to see the ability to create and open whatever files I want, rather than just saving a single pre-determined file.

Good job, though - thanks!

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

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Post by jsdalton »

This is just outstanding. It's so exactly what I wish for out of a scratch pad.

My feature request to add to your pile (possibly a lonely one, since maybe it's just unique to how my brain works):

I really want a scratch pad like this to have UX that supports "inverted" order. Meaning, new blocks get added to the top of the page instead of the bottom. The blocks naturally flow in descending order of creation rather than ascending. The scratch pad always opens at the top of the page. Over time, blocks thus end up "decaying" toward the bottom, with the most relevant at the top.

It just fits better with how my brain works.

I also +1 the sentiment given elsewhere in this thread to bias toward ignoring the vast majority of these feature requests and preserve the simplicitly of what you've built. That includes mine!

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

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Post by jonatanheyman »

jameshart wrote: post #90

Really nice execution of a simple but compelling idea. And the presentation on the site is solid too - I get what this is immediately, and I could see how it would be useful to me. A replacement for that Sublime text window I keep around where I paste stuff to keep for later, or to examine some JSON I just grabbed from somewhere! I do find myself wanting more features, but of course the beauty of this is how simple i…

> I do find myself wanting more features, but of course the beauty of this is how simple it is, so you definitely need to strongly resist the urge to add and add as people suggest ways to 'improve' it.

Definitely! I'm happy that you preface the feature requests with this comment :).

I've thought about the possibility of some kind of evaluation of code blocks, but at the moment I'm not planning to add it. Mainly because of the questions you posed :).

Heynote currently gets most of its Markdown features (basically everything except the checkboxes) "for free" from CodeMirror's Markdown mode (https://github.com/codemirror/lang-markdown).

Regarding tab size, I realize that it's something that I'm going to have to add settings for. Up until now, me and a few friends have been the only users of Heynote, and it seems like none of us favors tabs before spaces (or at least no one has asked me to fix it).

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