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Workflows in my note app Skrift

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Re: Workflows in my note app Skrift

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Post by 3np »

billbrown wrote: post #3
erk__ wrote: post #2

I can see that you have made some releases in a GitHub repo, do you have any plans to make it a bit more accessible or to open source the program?

Where are you seeing those? I combed through this guy's online presence and found nothing.

https://github.com/halestreet/skrift-release

Re: Workflows in my note app Skrift

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Post by micimize »

billbrown wrote: post #3
erk__ wrote: post #2

I can see that you have made some releases in a GitHub repo, do you have any plans to make it a bit more accessible or to open source the program?

Where are you seeing those? I combed through this guy's online presence and found nothing.

https://github.com/halestreet/skrift-release/releases took a bit of sleuthing haha

They're probably evaluating the market viability of a commercial product like roam

Re: Workflows in my note app Skrift

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Post by ichverstehe »

micimize wrote: post #5
billbrown wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where are you seeing those? I combed through this guy's online presence and found nothing.

https://github.com/halestreet/skrift-release/releases took a bit of sleuthing haha They're probably evaluating the market viability of a commercial product like roam

OP here.

When I started building this a year and a half ago, this was my plan. Since then, (1) there has been an explosion of note apps and (2) I realized that I do not really feel enthusiastic about building out commodity features needed for that. Instead, I am slowly building for myself, experimenting with different ideas and workflows[1], and sharing them on my blog, with the hope that someone else picks them up.

Alternatively, if I wait long enough, the "note app" part will become a commodity itself, and I can implement the interface/workflows on top of it. Quarto[2] looks promising in that regard. Their visual editor[3], which is used in R Studio, is really good.

[1] As an example, I at some point played around with a zooming user-interface: https://twitter.com/ichverstehe/status/1347896632424198144

[2] https://quarto.org/

[3] https://quarto.org/docs/visual-editor/

Re: Workflows in my note app Skrift

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Post by terhechte »

I've been working on a very similar app - also based on Sönke's book. Currently everything happens in the terminal but I wanted to start on a GUI app soon. I understand that you don't intend to open source your work, but thanks for the writeup. I like the idea of going over rows and columns, I'll probably shamelessly copy that (my current version uses a tree for display, much like Reddit or Hacker news comments, but that becomes difficult to parse after some time.

Re: Workflows in my note app Skrift

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Post by billbrown »

micimize wrote: post #5
billbrown wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where are you seeing those? I combed through this guy's online presence and found nothing.

https://github.com/halestreet/skrift-release/releases took a bit of sleuthing haha They're probably evaluating the market viability of a commercial product like roam

Hah! I saw that repo but there was only a README and I didn't dig deeper. Good job!

Re: Workflows in my note app Skrift

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Post by ichverstehe »

terhechte wrote: post #7

I've been working on a very similar app - also based on Sönke's book. Currently everything happens in the terminal but I wanted to start on a GUI app soon. I understand that you don't intend to open source your work, but thanks for the writeup. I like the idea of going over rows and columns, I'll probably shamelessly copy that (my current version uses a tree for display, much like Reddit or Hacker news comments, but…

Please do copy! I have experimented with tree based interfaces as well, and have also found that they become unmanageable.

The row/column approach works well, but eventually breaks down when working with dozens of notes at the same time. I am trying to figure out a way to efficiently group notes[1], but have hit a bit of a wall. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with :)

[1] E.g. my attempt to have multiple workspaces, while neat in theory, wasn’t great to work with in practice: https://twitter.com/ichverstehe/status/1347896632424198144 - having everything at the same level works better. My next attempt might be some sort of grouped tiles with autoscaling.

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