Any capacity for inter-note links there or planned?
I guess the OG NV didn’t have that but I used them pretty extensively in nvAlt and in Obsidian (not that I’d expect anywhere near what the latter does with analyzing them).
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#32This is a really cool idea. I especially like the math blocks where you can add blocks of information that actually do things. I could see this potentially even growing beyond math, but other types of functionality as well. One optimization that might be interesting is to simply use Markdown as your main document all the time and then when you want to add special functionality like the math block to simply have that…
Yeah, so far this behavior is inherited from Heynote. I've been thinking about making math an option within markdown. The type of the block is shown at the bottom, in the status bar.
FWIW, doing it as a special code block would align with how Obsidian handles stuff like that from its extensions.
For example, ```tasks blocks are used in Obsidian Tasks to denote queries. The extension replaces the block with the rendered task list, when in wysiwyg editing or in the rendered view.
In your case the results would just appear, a la soulver, but the way of setting it up would be familiar.
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#33I clicked in here and then realised I really don't need to be looking at yet another note taking app. As I was clicking off my eyes managed to skim "I took a small break from coding SumatraPDF" which had me reopening this thread quicksmart.
Thanks so much for the high quality, light-weight, native applications you put out. You're a saint.
That said, I will not eat the bugs, and I will not live in the browser. Project isn't for me. But I just wanted to say that you always have my attention.
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#36I like the idea of a developer focused note environment, but I've got such deep muscle memory for emacs that any other editor is a non-starter for me.
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#37Glad that you led with having made SumatraPDF, I love that app and it's a big recommendation for me.
Agreed. Sumatra is great. The addition of night/dark mode was a game changer. It's lightweight and effective, and thus efficient. Accordingly, knowing that this project originates from someone involved with Sumatra speaks volumes.
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#38This is slick. Are there plans for rendering LaTeX equations and/or diagrams/flowcharts, such as mathjax and/or mermaid.js?
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#39Is desktop on the roadmap? I use HeyNote (desktop) every day and the only feature I _really_ want is multiple notes. You added that, but I need desktop because of corporate rules.
Desktop would be easy to do but seems a bit pointless. You can install a PWA shortcut which gives you even more desktop experience in the sense that it looks like an app separate from the browser. That is what I do. What are those corporate rules and how are they enforced? Is it about storing data? Because Edna stores the notes on your computer, it's never sent to any server.
Uhh no... desktop isn't pointless unless you're wildly optimistic about the app website remaining online indefinitely into the future.
Whereas if I have an installer or an electron app, I can copy it to a thumb drive and install it years later on a totally different machine even if your website is long gone.
I personally dislike PWAs because they gave the deceptive illusion that you're installing an actual application as opposed to just a bunch of ephemeral stuff that's thrown inside the user data folder of the respective browser.
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#40This is nice, but I'm surprised you went with "P" for shortcuts since they're already taken by browsers. Ctrl/Cmd + P = Print Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + P = New Private Window
Command + P worked for me in Firefox, but Command + Shift + P did not. Further, because I don't type in QWERTY, I noticed that _some_ shortcuts seem correctly mapped in my layout, but others are not. The Option+N shortcut for a new note just starts the "˜" combining character (expecting a following character like "n" to form "ñ") when using the "n" key in my layout. However it works if I use the physical "n" key (whi…
Sounds like it's using event.keyCode (deprecated) or event.code (key button number) instead of event.key (the character that the button represents).