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Re: Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers

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Post by kjksf »

dcuthbertson wrote: post #64
dcuthbertson wrote: post #63

Thanks 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...

Yeah, that was for a different project that I no longer work on.

Re: Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers

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Post by kjksf »

jxy wrote: post #38

This is slick. Are there plans for rendering LaTeX equations and/or diagrams/flowcharts, such as mathjax and/or mermaid.js?

It's a possibility but I'm not using those myself so I don't have good intuition on what is a good UI for that.

A relatively simple thing would be to add "preview block" which e.g. for mermaid blocks would add a panel with rendered diagram.

A much more complicated solution would be to add codemirror view which renders diagram when cursor is outside the markup and switches to editing when inside markup.

But that's significantly more complicated.

Re: Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers

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Post by mk12345 »

Arjuna144 wrote: post #56

Now 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...

I created https://floatynotes.app a while ago, which might fit your list :). It provides virtual sticky notes, using the new Document Picture-in-Picture API.

Re: Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

This is really cool, I think I'll end up using this instead of a random VSCode window. Multiple blocks and especially the math ones are really nice for this use case.

FYI in every browser I use on Mac, command + L highlights the current page URL, so that shortcut to change language/block type doesn't work for me. Not a huge deal because you can change it from that bar at the bottom or the command palette, but figured I'd flag in case it's worth changing that shortcut.

Re: Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers

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Arjuna144 wrote: post #56

Now 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...

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Re: Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers

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Post by wonger_ »

deskr wrote: post #62
Arjuna144 wrote: post #56

Now 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!)

I'm working on quick capture! Just a prototype so far for saving text snippets: https://wonger.dev/posts/in-the-works#gimme-that

Ideally, note capture is as easy as screenshots. It means removing nonessential menus, decisionmaking, buttons, etc. For example, having the app start with an editor and keyboard open, versus having the app start with a list of existing notes. It may mean gesture shortcuts.

For a published app with adjacent ideas, check out Bebop for iOS: https://www.jackcheng.com/bebop-design-dev-process/

Re: Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #74

This is really cool, I think I'll end up using this instead of a random VSCode window. Multiple blocks and especially the math ones are really nice for this use case. FYI in every browser I use on Mac, command + L highlights the current page URL, so that shortcut to change language/block type doesn't work for me. Not a huge deal because you can change it from that bar at the bottom or the command palette, but figured…

That is probably the most useful shortcut that I haven't been using. I have been up the creek since my workplace implemented and actually-effective browser extension plugin and I lost my precious Vim Vixen.

Re: Show HN: Edna, note taking app for developers

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Post by hawski »

Not long time ago I started making a note taking thing and some of your goals align with mine - minimal, keep your data local. What is different about my thing besides being very crude (EasyMDE and a few CGI programs in C served by BusyBox httpd) is the goal of using it as my new tab on devices to cut down on using tabs as bookmarks.

I see myself adopting your solution for my case or maybe extending it. What I'm missing: image support and ToC.

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