Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

zeminary.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–48 of 48 posts

Re: Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

#41

Post by tsydenzhap »

nbbaier wrote: post #39
knubie wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I thought of that, but then I realized you'd run out of space very quickly. Stacking links to the notes in the second sidebar is better. It's alot easier to browse & then jump between.

Re: Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

#42

Post by nbbaier »

tsydenzhap wrote: post #41
nbbaier wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I thought of that, but then I realized you'd run out of space very quickly. Stacking links to the notes in the second sidebar is better. It's alot easier to browse & then jump between.

Fair enough! I really like the interface. Well done!

Re: Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

#44

Post by allenu »

This is very cool. I had a very similar idea, although I was probably inspired by the same UX you've seen elsewhere.

I had already built an index cards app for Mac and iOS and it works really well for what it does, but the fixed size of the cards always bothered me since you're always limited vertically by the card, so I wanted to try a horizontally scrolling note editor like you have here.

I put together a quick prototype of the idea I came up last year. Here's a recording I did just now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V-kCD2aXcQ

Also inspired by Andy Matuschak's page. I've been meaning to work on it a bit more and get in the app store but have been busy with other projects.

Re: Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

#46

Post by tsydenzhap »

allenu wrote: post #44

This is very cool. I had a very similar idea, although I was probably inspired by the same UX you've seen elsewhere. I had already built an index cards app for Mac and iOS and it works really well for what it does, but the fixed size of the cards always bothered me since you're always limited vertically by the card, so I wanted to try a horizontally scrolling note editor like you have here. I put together a quick pro…

We think similarly. I saw your other app. https://www.ussherpress.com/cardbuddy/ It's like a better version of my first offline web app. https://zeminary.com/matrix/app.html

Re: Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

#47

Post by tsydenzhap »

ripe wrote: post #45

Looks interesting on my mobile firefox; will try on desktop. Small nit: what does "PKM" stand for? I am guessing personal knowledge manager? Might want to clarify on first use. Thanks!

Yeah. Stuff like Obsidian. I think they focus too much on building knowledge bases. & that Microsoft Word focuses too little. This app, you just take whatever notes you need to get things done.

Re: Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

#48

Post by allenu »

tsydenzhap wrote: post #46
allenu wrote: post #44

This is very cool. I had a very similar idea, although I was probably inspired by the same UX you've seen elsewhere. I had already built an index cards app for Mac and iOS and it works really well for what it does, but the fixed size of the cards always bothered me since you're always limited vertically by the card, so I wanted to try a horizontally scrolling note editor like you have here. I put together a quick pro…

We think similarly. I saw your other app. https://www.ussherpress.com/cardbuddy/ It's like a better version of my first offline web app. https://zeminary.com/matrix/app.html

Oh, that's really cool you have something similar there too. I like that you stay in edit mode as you navigate from note to note with the shortcuts. I think that's one of the things that makes Card Buddy work really well. I tried to make it feel like editing a spreadsheet. In the app, you can navigate to empty cells in the canvas using the arrow keys and then create a card on the spot by typing some text. It makes it super fast to fill in the board if you have a lot of thoughts you want to get down right away.
Post reply on HN