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

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Post by rkeene2 »

Rudism wrote: post #150

I love the idea of this after playing with it for a few minutes. My main gripe is that the font size is way too small for my old-man eyes, and it doesn't seem to remember or restore the previous zoom-level when launching (meaning I need to re-zoom-in every time). If it were possible to set a larger font-size or if the previous zoom level was saved and restored on each launch that would be a greatly welcome addition t…

It's not just the font size but also the choice of font, with no way to specify a font that is readable.

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

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Post by AlphaWeaver »

The calculations alongside the notes remind me of the "dynamic annotations" in Ink and Switch's "Potluck" [0] demo. I wish there were more examples of this in note taking applications - this sort of progressive enhancement from unstructured notes to structured data is useful.

[0]: https://www.inkandswitch.com/potluck/

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

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Post by monkey_monkey »

bachmeier wrote: post #156
jonatanheyman wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 con…

Changing the font is accessibility, not customization. I downloaded the app, opened it up, and the font was too small for it to be practical for me to use. I know it doesn't take much to fix, because I did a Ctrl-Shift-I, changed the font from 12px to 18px, and problem solved. It's not something I'm going to do over and over.

cmd + (or whatever the equivalent is for your platform) seems to permanently increase the font size.

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

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Post by rubymamis »

injuly wrote: post #47

This is so neat. Good work! I've tried Obsidian, Notion, Typora, and a myriad of other local editors only to come back to vim every time. My ideal text editor is one that has syntax highlighting, scratchpad, markdown support, block based editing, ability to link between documents and vim keybindings. No cloud login, AI assistant, cross-device sync, or other bloat. I try to avoid using electron apps for lightweight ta…

Hey there!

Maybe you'll like my next note-taking app[1]. It has a block editor based on Qt C++ so it's very performant. It supports Markdown out of the box, will have advanced media support like Kanban, images, columns, etc.

[1] https://www.get-plume.com/

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

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Post by mike31fr »

Units handling in maths blocks is awesome.

Exemple 1:

g = 9.81 m/s^2

time = 60s

Then "g*time" shows "588.6 m / s"

Exemple 2:

energy = 14 J

distance = 5m

"energy/distance" shows "2.8 N"

Wow.

EDIT: I just found out that behind the scenes it's using maths.js. This library does this natively. Input "14J/5m" into maths.js and you get "2.8 N" as output. Glad I discovered this library.

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