Math blocks are truly great. I did try converting `2 tbsp butter in grams` and nothing happened, which I half expected.
I guess a "cooking" block would go a long way - at least for me!
Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers
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Re: Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers
#62Now there are three "newish" Markdown / PWA / Note apps that I am aware of: - Silverbullet.md ( https://silverbullet.md ) - Eidos ( https://eidos.space/ ) - and this ofc ( https://edna.arslexis.io/ ) Is someone aware of more of these? I am liking all of them and they seem to have different perspectives, goals and philosophies. Sadly none of them have a quick capture experience on android that I am satisfied with...
> quick capture experience
How would that experience look like? (I think I'm after the same thing!)
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#63Thanks for sharing. This is an impressive tool. Well done!
Would you mind sharing a little about your workflow? 528 commits over 40 workdays seems like a lot of work that must have been well organized. I'd guess each commit is a small amount of work on a focused aspect of the program. If that's so, did you have clear goals for what you wanted to achieve, break down the work ahead of time, or plan out what you wanted to change/add?
Re: Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers
#64Thanks for sharing. This is an impressive tool. Well done! Would you mind sharing a little about your workflow? 528 commits over 40 workdays seems like a lot of work that must have been well organized. I'd guess each commit is a small amount of work on a focused aspect of the program. If that's so, did you have clear goals for what you wanted to achieve, break down the work ahead of time, or plan out what you wanted…
I found your blog and your diary of a solo developer building a web app [0]. Maybe the answers to my questions are there. Thanks for this, too.
[0]: https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/30da6655040f47e693f8e66e...
Re: Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers
#65Now there are three "newish" Markdown / PWA / Note apps that I am aware of: - Silverbullet.md ( https://silverbullet.md ) - Eidos ( https://eidos.space/ ) - and this ofc ( https://edna.arslexis.io/ ) Is someone aware of more of these? I am liking all of them and they seem to have different perspectives, goals and philosophies. Sadly none of them have a quick capture experience on android that I am satisfied with...
To me this looks more like Unforget which was shared here a few weeks ago https://unforget.computing-den.com/demo
Re: Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers
#66This looks a lot like Unforget https://unforget.computing-den.com/demo (which was a Show HN few weeks back) also Heynote which others have mentioned already.
Re: Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers
#67Now there are three "newish" Markdown / PWA / Note apps that I am aware of: - Silverbullet.md ( https://silverbullet.md ) - Eidos ( https://eidos.space/ ) - and this ofc ( https://edna.arslexis.io/ ) Is someone aware of more of these? I am liking all of them and they seem to have different perspectives, goals and philosophies. Sadly none of them have a quick capture experience on android that I am satisfied with...
Silverbullet.md looks really good to me. With a few more features it might be able to replace vscode as my note taking app.
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#68Anything good that integrates with vscode?
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#69Any 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).
Nope, OG NV had inter-note linking, Simplenote syncing, file saving, encrypting, etc. long before the NVAlt fork existed[1]. Just about the only thing NVAlt added was a Markdown preview pane.
Re: Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers
#70Thanks for sharing. This is an impressive tool. Well done! Would you mind sharing a little about your workflow? 528 commits over 40 workdays seems like a lot of work that must have been well organized. I'd guess each commit is a small amount of work on a focused aspect of the program. If that's so, did you have clear goals for what you wanted to achieve, break down the work ahead of time, or plan out what you wanted…
As far as individual commits, you can see the scope yourself: https://github.com/kjk/edna/commits/main/
Yes, I like to work in relatively small, but logical, commits.
Yes, I did have clear goals in mind. I knew I wanted multiple notes, storing notes on disk, command palette, encryption etc.
I was writing the app for myself and using it every day, which helps with motivation and knowing what to do next.
There were also changes based on usage. For example, I've added a top nav bar but occasionally it would obscure the text so I made it hidden when typing.
One of the uses of Edna is keeping track of what I want to do next.
I have a note for each project, including Edna, and I keep a list of ideas there, sorted by the most important things at the top.
That way I can jump start the day quickly by looking at that note and picking one of the items to implement.