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Re: Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

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Post by tsydenzhap »

tsydenzhap wrote: post #28
SubiculumCode wrote: post #4

I like this very much. Can it be run totally local to the disk? Also, I am having trouble searching. I enter a term and hit enter and it just goes to a new line. In terms of editors, find and replace functionality is very important, IMO. Thanks for sharing!

You just type whatever, then the list underneath will filter out anything that doesn't have the search terms either in the title or text. You don't need to ENTER. You shouldn't ENTER. Search & replace is very important. I'll implement that in the future. It can be used on desktop as long as you have an internet connection. If you look at the source code you'll see it sources some CDN files. I'm planning on taking it…

I thought about it & decided against it. It'd be buggy, complicated, & undoable. People should just manually search & replace things. There's even a first level search to help people get started.

Re: Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

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Post by tsydenzhap »

tsydenzhap wrote: post #29
Tallain wrote: post #19

This is so great. I'm already envisioning all the ways I can put this to use. The only way I could think to improve it is a desktop app, and maybe some fusion with Heynote style features or keyboard shortcuts. This could be so great for short-term local notes or long form writing. Good job!

Thanks. & here are some ideas. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43012478 & some more ideas. You can also work out an outline or timeline or table of characters & settings & objects in the editors to the right. You can also get your editors to write their overarching feedback & questions in the editors to the right. I also designed this for screenwriting so you can get more ideas by reading up on how screenwriters…

(I deleted what I wrote in that link. Here it is.) The leftmost editor is used to write the section (or chapter), & the rest are used to take notes for that section, or to keep old versions of that section as reference, or to work out different ways of writing a subsection, etc. (& this seems hubristic, but I think this app might actually be a watershed moment in UI & UX & software development history. There's nothing out there that lets you juggle contexts nearly as seamlessly. Microsoft Word & Obsidian have alot of lines of code & hours behind them, but in terms of how much they empower me to write & think, they're far inferior to this app. & if you look at the html, you'll see it's only 750 lines of code, of which only 670 lines are actually used. So it's also extremely maintainable & forkable.)

Re: Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

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Post by knubie »

exclipy wrote: post #35

Reminds me of CQ2 https://cq2.co/blog/the-best-way-to-have-complex-discussions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40277547

Reminds me also of Andy Matuschak's "working notes" project.[0] This kind of UI feels very natural. I've often thought about how this kind of UI might work in a browser, e.g. wrt tabs/history.

[0] https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes

Re: Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

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Post by tsydenzhap »

knubie wrote: post #36
exclipy wrote: post #35

Reminds me of CQ2 https://cq2.co/blog/the-best-way-to-have-complex-discussions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40277547

Reminds me also of Andy Matuschak's "working notes" project.[0] This kind of UI feels very natural. I've often thought about how this kind of UI might work in a browser, e.g. wrt tabs/history. [0] https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes

I browsed that website for a few days about a year or two before writing this app a year ago. This app is kind of an inversion where the focus is not on reading but on writing.

Re: Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

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Post by nbbaier »

knubie wrote: post #36
exclipy wrote: post #35

Reminds me of CQ2 https://cq2.co/blog/the-best-way-to-have-complex-discussions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40277547

Reminds me also of Andy Matuschak's "working notes" project.[0] This kind of UI feels very natural. I've often thought about how this kind of UI might work in a browser, e.g. wrt tabs/history. [0] https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes

This is immediately what I thought of too. I wish the notes would stack like in Andy's site
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