All that text, and no mention of what platforms are supported (or will be supported in the future).
Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor
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#62Scrivener has the same "mission" as this. To make text writing into chunks that you can rearrange.
It's more fully baked and I think has a better UI that Ginko (writing a book or long piece with 3 relatively small columns isn't ideal).
Unfortunately it is marketed poorly, so not a lot of people know about it, but I have found it very useful when doing writing for longer pieces.
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#63Dear authors, my screen has hundreds of pixels vertically, I would like to be able to read more than 15 lines at once. The font size is insanely huge. It made me close the tab.
Ctrl -
That's a workaround rather than a solution. The font is indeed rather large. I'd guess most people on HackerNews know how zoom works.
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#64Neat. A couple thoughts:
1) it took me some time to figure out that I could scroll a given column when the mouse is over it... Also when the mouse is over a non-column area (background on far right/left) it would be useful if scrolling did a global scroll of all columns at the same time.
2) It could be nice if the sections M+1/M-1 (above/below) the selected section in column N were given a subtle distinct color, and then the appropriate sections in column N+1 that are nested in M+1/M-1 were given the same color. Does that make any sense? It would give a visual indication of which sections in column N+1 lie within sections M+1 and M-1, and also help to emphasize the tree nature of the layout. A different color could be chosen for M+/-2, +/-3, etc.
Good job! :)
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#65Web: Try It Now! Me: Cool, a demo! [click] Web: But first, you must Sign Up...[trollface] Me: Nope nope nope...
We considered adding "lazy registration", but we're a team of just two, and decided to focus on improving the product and helping our users. Might do in the future, but for now, that's what we have.
At least make bugmenot able to locate the login form :/
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#66This is a good concept but the execution needs some work. I'm confused that everything is visible all the time - if that's the case, why am I clicking on things? But clicking on things seems to be necessary to 'focus' on a given subject; otherwise, as you scroll, the columns get out of sync and seem to bear little relationship to each other.
I envisioned something very different from the screenshots. I expected you to be able to expand and collapse nodes, with the collapsed nodes existing only to provide a summary of the surrounding information. I can see the appeal of having everything visible so that you can just scroll through the document as you would now, but in that case the scroll positions of the columns need to be dynamically linked and there needs to be more feedback about which nodes serve as a summary or context for which other nodes.
In general, I think the process of reading a Gingko document is not clear to a first-time reader. Fixing this will require changes to both functionality and design.
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#67Is anyone else seeing "undefined is editing" and subsequently a bunch of text you didn't write appears?
I'm worried that what I am typing into this might show up in someone else's tree.
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#68Is anyone else seeing "undefined is editing" and subsequently a bunch of text you didn't write appears? I'm worried that what I am typing into this might show up in someone else's tree.
That's a bug that someone's reported before (through Twitter). Working on fixing it.
No one can see your trees. The "bunch of text" bug has never happened before, will try to track it down.
Probably due to the flood of traffic from HN!
UPDATE from my cofounder:
"fyi: I fixed that bug weird one" - Aleksey Kulikov
Re: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor
#69Is anyone else seeing "undefined is editing" and subsequently a bunch of text you didn't write appears? I'm worried that what I am typing into this might show up in someone else's tree.
That's a bug that someone's reported before (through Twitter). Working on fixing it. No one can see your trees. The "bunch of text" bug has never happened before, will try to track it down. Probably due to the flood of traffic from HN! UPDATE from my cofounder: "fyi: I fixed that bug weird one" - Aleksey Kulikov
by "bunch of text" I mean several list items. I took screenshots if there is an email I can send them to (assuming that's helpful, I understand if it's not) let me know.
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#70I think this is quite a nice experiment in UI. However too small and simple to start charging for (but please proof me wrong!).
1) What I miss is the possibility to attach files. This would be essential in typical collaborative environments. 2) I don't want to give you my data. So localstorage or export/import is essential.