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Re: Turn your browser into a notepad with one line

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Post by jarel »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #47
mikebridgman wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I often do an exercise that I've started referring to as a "brain dump". Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed, for whatever reason, it helps to just simply start typing. I start by just saying whatever is most present on my mind, and each new thought starts on a new line. More often than not I end up drilling down to some kind of inner conflict buried pretty deep in my mind. What's really amazing is when seemingly unrel…

Apropos of nothing I believe this works because it frees up space in your brain. Sometimes, when I'm trying to get too much done at once, I'm stressed out by trying to keep to many things in the forefront of my thoughts at once. When I get stuck like that I create a scratch pad document with three 'zones' Doing: stuff I'm working on right now ToDo: Stuff that I know needs to get done Done: Stuff that is now done. Sta…

Did you mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_board ?

Re: Turn your browser into a notepad with one line

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Post by mmahemoff »

simonsarris wrote: post #33

Ah shoot. If Chrome allowed localStorage to be accessible from file:/// then we could add save (CTRL+S) and automatic load using this: data:text/html, window.onload=function(){var a=document.body;a.innerText=localStorage.mydoc;a.addEventListener("keydown",function(b){b.ctrlKey&&83==b.which&&(localStorage.mydoc=a.innerHTML,b.preventDefault())},!1)}; Firefox will save it to localStorage but clear the local storage afte…

A pity Chrome basically gave up on file:///. A lot of cool things worked better with it (like TiddlyWiki).

Re: Turn your browser into a notepad with one line

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Post by dguaraglia »

JacobIrwin wrote: post #70

After some mix-and-matching of the awesome code snippets posted in the comments, I came up with something easy on the eyes (with a nice little color transition (for webkit-enabled browsers): data:text/html, http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:100,200,300,400,... rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> html { font-family: "Lato"; color:#e9e9e9; background-color:#222; } * { -webkit-transition: all linear 1s; }

Woha! Not bad.

Re: Turn your browser into a notepad with one line

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Post by wilfra »

jfaucett wrote: post #60
simonsarris wrote: post #33

Ah shoot. If Chrome allowed localStorage to be accessible from file:/// then we could add save (CTRL+S) and automatic load using this: data:text/html, window.onload=function(){var a=document.body;a.innerText=localStorage.mydoc;a.addEventListener("keydown",function(b){b.ctrlKey&&83==b.which&&(localStorage.mydoc=a.innerHTML,b.preventDefault())},!1)}; Firefox will save it to localStorage but clear the local storage afte…

That is so cool :). I just slapped together a (really) simple chrome ext for opening up a new tab in "contenteditable" mode. It saves the contents into localStorage, thats it for now :) Here it is if anyones interested https://github.com/jwaterfaucett/textpad

Can anybody please give me quick install instructions? There is no readme and I'm unfamiliar with how to add a Chrome extension based on a Github repo.

Re: Turn your browser into a notepad with one line

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Post by pax »

darxius wrote: post #10
ernestipark wrote: post #7

Nifty trick. To build on this, if you use chrome, add it as a search engine with a special keyword so you can type in your URL bar something like "note + + " then you're in typing mode.

Yeah this is nifty. For the lazy: Name: note Keyword: note URL: data:text/html, %s Of course, you could change the style of the URL. That's just what I defaulted to.

for the really lazy, keyword: '..' ('//' doesn't work :)

Re: Turn your browser into a notepad with one line

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Post by lomendil »

lukes386 wrote: post #54
tikhonj wrote: post #34

This is what the scratch (EDIT: read scratch as * scratch * without the spaces--is there any way to escape that properly on HN?) buffer is for in Emacs, and I find it extremely useful. Also, unlike using a different tool, it allows me to use all the Emacs-specific features I usually rely on. (For example, I can easily type special characters like r₁ × r₂ ≈ r₃ using the TeX mode.) If you want more than one scratch buf…

There's also a "scratch" plugin for vim that offers similar functionality: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=664

For vim, I just open an unnamed buffer (:new). I think this is exactly the same as the scratch buffer in emacs.
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