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

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Post by promiseofbeans »

silvestrov wrote: post #102
jonatanheyman wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

You can do that (and lots more) with Fend: https://github.com/printfn/fend/

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

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Post by namtab00 »

denysonique wrote: post #249

With the soaring popularity of Electron apps we need Electron to be distributed as a shared runtime.

so you want something akin to how the .NET Framework was included in Windows...

what about different applications requiring different Electron versions?

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

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Post by versteegen »

bradrn wrote: post #214
jonatanheyman wrote: post #91

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Oh, I haven't seen orgmode before, so I don't know what its features are. I'm not planning to add evaluation of code blocks (apart from Math blocks that is) due to the complexity it would add.

> Oh, I haven't seen orgmode before, so I don't know what its features are. Essentially, it’s an environment for writing+outlining+task tracking+time management. It’s incredibly useful — you should definitely try it since you’ve used Emacs.

Just like emacs itself, it's hard to describe what org-mode is, since it has so many features, most of which any individual probably won't use or even know about. You didn't mention tables, hyperlinks, tagging, exporting documents...

See the manual's table of contents: https://orgmode.org/org.html

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

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Post by cozzyd »

apwell23 wrote: post #16

This is great. I always resort to textedit for this stuff, i am going to use heynote instead and see how it goes. love seeing stuff like this on HN like the good old days. Any plans to add vi keybindings support by any chance?

yes, this is cool, but without vi keybindings it's not very practical for me

now I wonder if I can get or write a vim plugin to do something similar... that would also have the advantage of being in a terminal so it can live in a persistent tmux session and be accessible remotely...

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

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Post by jdprgm »

Nice work, I like the simplicity, math blocks, and mixed syntax highlighting. My workflow for the past few years has been within all my sublime projects to have a gitignored folder named scratchpad with mixed files for this exact use case. It's annoying having to create separate tiny files if i want syntax highlighting though for a mixed bag of stuff. I would LOVE this exact app as a sublime plugin on a per project basis that created a .scratchpad file i could gitignore with this same feature set. I haven't ever gone deep on capabilities/limitations of sublime text plugins and if this would even be feasible. I definitely would want this ability for different blocks but on a per project basis or I can see the scrolling easily getting out of hand.

This project definitely hits on one of those things just about every dev probably has a slightly different approach to and nobody has really targeted a solution towards so kudos on that.

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