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

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Post by tjbiddle »

Amazing! While I come from a tech background (DevOps) I no longer work in tech (Operate my own companies - completely unrelated).

Point being: This still fits my needs perfectly well as a general scratchpad! I usually have dozens of separate text files spread around the place, this should be a good fit to replace.

Suggestions: - Make it clear that things are auto-saving - Option to save a block to file - Option to change the background color of alternating blocks; whether that's just allowing two colors - dark and light to alternate - or on an individual basis - Allow titling of blocks and some sort of table of contents - I can see this eventually having dozens that I'd like to reference and quick jump to

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

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Post by bachmeier »

monkey_monkey wrote: post #175
bachmeier wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Tried it, but it didn't work for me.

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

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Post by bityard »

aryonoco wrote: post #223
prartichoke wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as a quick google search got me, it seems pretty open with the only caveat being you can't sell or monetize it... how is that not open source?

If you put any restrictions on usage or what can be done with it (like selling), then it's absolutely not open source. open source doesn't mean source code is there. open source has a specific definition. There is a list of acceptable open source licenses, as defined by OSI. similarly there is a list of acceptable free software licenses, as defined by FSF. Broadly, the two lists are the same. Commons Clause is defini…

There exists a niche of commercial software developers who are actively attempting to water down the commonly accepted meaning of "open source" for their own gain, and I suspect they are voting you down. :(

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

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Post by breakfastduck »

jsdalton wrote: post #109

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 th…

please do this inverted order

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

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Post by j1elo »

aryonoco wrote: post #223
prartichoke wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as a quick google search got me, it seems pretty open with the only caveat being you can't sell or monetize it... how is that not open source?

If you put any restrictions on usage or what can be done with it (like selling), then it's absolutely not open source. open source doesn't mean source code is there. open source has a specific definition. There is a list of acceptable open source licenses, as defined by OSI. similarly there is a list of acceptable free software licenses, as defined by FSF. Broadly, the two lists are the same. Commons Clause is defini…

Not sure why you're being downvoted. Even the Commons Clause itself is clear about it:

https://commonsclause.com/#faq

> Is this “Open Source”?

> No.

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

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Post by promiseofbeans »

rglover wrote: post #217

This is really, really good. Just earned a permanent spot on my dock in short order. One request (which I would happily pay for): make it so that you can run the code blocks and generate an output. I routinely crack open the browser console to test out some JS and it would be great to be able to do this right alongside my other notes.

You might be able to hook into the new Deno jupyter notebook feature for this
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