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Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor

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Re: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor

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What a great tool! I will definitly use this to structure my lecture notes! (Topic > Sub-Topic > Definition/List) Improvement: Allow to filter and color cards. So you can walk through all cards of a given type.

Great, thanks for the feedback Zemi.

We have the ability to filter, using the Search feature. You can just type @tags, and searching them will hide all cards that don't containt that text.

Let me know if you have any other questions or suggestions.

Re: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor

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Web: Try It Now! Me: Cool, a demo! [click] Web: But first, you must Sign Up...[trollface] Me: Nope nope nope...

Read-only demo: https://gingkoapp.com/hyperloop

Just an FYI: for me this demo only works in Google Chrome desktop. It didn't work in Chrome on Nexus 7, nor in Conkeror(Firefox) on desktop.

Re: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor

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would love to see a self hosted ginko. It used to be that there was a lot of self hosted project, now everyone wants to keep you data... I wonder if the trend will change again.

I'd like to try it, but I'm also not going to sign up for an online note/research app to use seriously. I want assurances that my notes are on my devices, read only by me, and, after a shitty experience with Notes.app this week, I'm going to be refusing any app that silos data and/or uses an unpublished nonstandard format.

Understood. We're planning on adding offline support, and a "Chrome Packaged App" version, so you could use Gingko offline entirely, and our servers will never touch your data.

As for the format, we simply export to flat Markdown. We will be supporting other formats (including XML, and the OPML standard for hierarchical/outline text).

Thanks for your feedback!

Re: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor

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Interesting idea. Can you make it so that when I click in the card it automatically goes into edit mode? Having to click an "edit" button really slows things down.

You can double-click the card to go into edit mode.

Single click would be easier, but since we have drag-and-drop, and sometimes use clicking just for navigation, we have to use double-click to edit.

(unless you have a better approach in mind?)

PS: Also, once you get used to them, the keyboard shortcuts lets you navigate & edit pretty quickly.

Re: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor

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post #10

Have you thought about allowing for the creation of arbitrarily deep trees? That's one of the features I like most about workflowy. This looks really cool, though!

Yes, we're definitely working on adding arbirary depth. We are starting with three because it's enough to realize the benefits. Infinite depth is coming (as well as other exciting features).

Do you have a newsletter or other way I could sign up to be notified of updates?

This hits a lot of points that I've been looking for in an app/service. So much so that I was ready to sign up for the paid plan after trying this out for a couples minute, because I'm sure I'd use it enough to be worth it. But I didn't realize the three-levels limitation, and that prevents this from being useful enough to me to start using it.

I'd love to check it out again when you do add infinite nesting.

Re: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor

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I love the tool, though it'd be great if the editing windows support full-screen mode. Writing in a small grid is a pain.

Yes, that's a feature we have planned. Similar to the "Zen mode" in github.

That will let you write a group of cards as one flow, and it'll split it into individual cards once you leave fullscreen.

Re: Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor

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post #39

What a great tool! I will definitly use this to structure my lecture notes! (Topic > Sub-Topic > Definition/List) Improvement: Allow to filter and color cards. So you can walk through all cards of a given type.

Great, thanks for the feedback Zemi. We have the ability to filter, using the Search feature. You can just type @tags, and searching them will hide all cards that don't containt that text. Let me know if you have any other questions or suggestions.

Well that's a workaround for now but it could be a little more user friendly (like showing all tags on the top)

Another point: Make cards collapsible/expandable to get a quicker overview about topics. (It is also an aid to the process of memorizing cards)

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