Aug 14, 2022
As preparation for tomorrow's wheel reinvention jam, I just created a fork of lines.love with all the drawing support ripped out. Time to take it in a new direction.
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Aug 7, 2022
Idea for a new tool
Drop a Mastodon or HN URL on a window, and it constructs a more dense 2D graphical layout for a thread.
- Separate card for each comment.
- Ideal readable width per card.
- Short arrows from comments to their replies.
- Keyboard shortcuts to pan along semantically to sibling or child.
Side-effects:
- It needs the network, obviously.
- Zero contact with file-system.
Inspirations:
- Colin Wright's Chartodon
- S-ol Bekic's FediDag tool (example)
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Aug 4, 2022
Current state of my note-taking app
Things of note:
- Operates on a hard-coded directory of text files.
- No overlapping, no tiling, just an infinite 2D surface of columns. Commands open new columns.
- Wordstar-style menu up top of important commands in current context, and their shortcuts.
- Command palette at top left that filters commands available in current context.
- Files/nodes can have links. Links can form graphs, as the picture shows (original: http://www.maplefish.com/todd/papers/Experiences.html)
- Links have labels (next/previous by default).
- Graph-traversal commands can take an argument (next/previous by default) of the edge label you want to follow.
- 'add' adds an edge immediately to the current node, 'append' traverses the edge repeatedly to the end, then adds.
- 'step' navigates along an edge from the current node and opens it in a new column, 'unroll' traverses the edge repeatedly to the end and collects all nodes into a single column.
add:append :: step:unroll
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Aug 2, 2022
I'm doing a major migration of my notes schema to make it work better with my note-taking app. In the process I've been reading a random (mostly embarrassing) sampling of 10+ years of notes. But here's a non-embarrassing one:
Jun 2012: I need fuck you software.
That pretty much explains why I started Mu 2 years later :D
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Jul 27, 2022
I've been working on a note-taking program
To be precise, I've been migrating my existing 10+ year old note-taking workflows out of terminal and unix tools into a more integrated and hopefully more accessible environment.
Not released yet, but here's a demo. (5 minutes; mirror)
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Jul 2, 2022
Exporting files created by lines.love to markdown+SVG
This is a feature that doesn't have to be bundled with the main app.
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Jun 26, 2022
Notes for a new note-taking app in my existing note-taking system, augmented with basic line drawings.
Extremely jank, but still oh so much better than not having pictures at all.
(List based on these notes by Yoshiki Schmitz)
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Jun 14, 2022
Call me Kartik. I have a way of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I become intolerable to my family--then, I account it high time to write some more tests as soon as I can.
20 new tests, 700 LoC, 33% LoC now devoted to tests.
Feeling much better 🙏 Now bracing to find out what I broke today.
Experiment: two ways of drawing polygons.
In the first, I have more control over the vertices and can make irregular polygons. The second is more expressive for making regular polygons, and just looks cooler.
Before:
After:
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