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Show HN: CodeOwl – Organize your notes, todos, and code snippets in one place
- bevan 9y agoCongrats on launch! A call to action could be useful. "Welcome to CodeOwl! Create your first note/link now." Looks nice!
- urda 9y agoCan tabs not be renamed?
- binaryapparatus 9y agoCodeOwl is not yet supported on small screen resolutions :( ... Running in w3m on FreeBSD, decently large screen :)
- wellpast 9y agoWhere is my Clojure syntax highlighting?
- charbz 9y agoClojure syntax -- noted
- martinflack 9y agoCommon Lisp would be great as well.
- gpm 9y agoWhile calling out languages - rust.
- chipfunk 9y agoGood stuff. I could see myself using this. A few bits of feedback: - Notes should be clamped to screen. There seems to be no limit to how far off screen I can drag something, after which I cannot bring it back (unless I create another note). - It would be nice if there was some way to snap the notes along a grid so that it's easier to arrange things neatly. - Collapsible notes would be nice (e.g. collapsing the note so that only the header is visible). Right now each tab has a very limited amount of space.
- charbz 9y agoAwesome feedback , we were unsure between complete free-form and a grid system but seems like many people prefer a more rigid grid
- dugmartin 9y agoNice. I'd suggest automatically adding a todo list that had tasks about discovering all the features when a new user first loads the app. Having an essentially blank screen is going to cause a lot of users to bounce. Also, I'd set .workspace { overflow: hidden} as I'm getting a double scrollbar in Chrome (Windows 10).
- charbz 9y agogreat idea ! to start off with a pre-filled todo list Thank you
- hitgeek 9y agonice work! I couldn't figure out how to exit the full screen interactive code view. The button to delete a todo and "check" a todo are pretty close together, easy to click the wrong one. maybe move the check to the left side of the text? adding links is really slow.
- dan678 9y agoReally cool. Like others have mentioned, tiling would be great. Free form isn't bad though, maybe make a toggle between free form and tiling?
- charbz 9y agoThis might be the best solution .. we will check the feasibility of it
- INTPenis 9y agoI love it, a small project space manager. But what does it use for storage? Do you have a backend or is it all browser storage? I assume backend since Firefox never prompted me about using browser storage. Reason I ask is that all free things come to an end. Just like Taiga.io, which I used before for minor project management.
- charbz 9y agoI am using firebase for storage currently the model is completely free , once you create enough dashboards you can request extra space also for free ( for all early adopter and for the foreseeable future )
- guptat59 9y agoNice tool. I would make urls just clickable and hyperlink them. CodeOwl may not have access to everything I paste there and some urls may be broken if you don't have access.
- chewmieser 9y agoRandom bug: All panes seem to accept pressing <enter> as valid input. The URL pane seems to spin forever if you just press <enter>. Neat though, agreed with adding a todo to help the user navigate their first time through.
- charbz 9y agoInteresting, thanks for reporting !
- polartx 9y agoThis is exactly the kind of application my life needs! I've been using the Notes section of the toolbelt of Sublime. edit- autosave would be great though. I made all these notes, then left for an hour (without saving), when I came back the page refreshed itself and everything was gone.
- charbz 9y agoglad you find this useful .. this came about after years of frustration as a dev
- folta 9y agoAny possibility of allowing self-hosting? Would be fantastic to run on my local dev server.
- charbz 9y agoas of today , we only implemented the cloud version running with firebase on the backend , but a localhost solution is definetly in the works. I can send you an email once a localhost version is ready -- stay in touch code.owl.app@gmail.com
- chrisjh 9y agoHey @charbz great project! How can I get in touch to provide some feedback?
- charbz 9y agoThank you ! feel free to write me on code.owl.app@gmail.com your feedback is much appreciated
- semperdark 9y agoBug report: When I add an invalid link (Like "123") to the Links widget it sends a request to "publicApi/links" which hangs for a few minutes before failing. It looks like you're requesting the URL server-side to provide a preview, you may want to validate the URL before making the request, or catch invalid requests.
- eindiran 9y agoI really like this and can imagine using it regularly. Do you have any plans to support more color options in the future?
- charbz 9y agodo you mean color for text , or for the widgets themselves .. we do plan on creating a dark theme , as well as adding more coloring options to the widgets
- eindiran 9y agoI meant both the widgets and the text: I tried changing the color of the widget to grey and with the default text color it was very difficult to read, but I didn't see any way to change the color of the text. Having the option to change the theme of the entire app or dashboard would be very desirable as a feature, at least to me.
- k4ch0w 9y agoVery cool man. I could definitely see myself using this. Is there a mode to set new notes to tiling mode rather than down a list? Something similar to https://i3wm.org/ https://i3wm.org/
- charbz 9y agoThis seems to be the most consistent feedback we've had so far, so you can definitely expect tiling mode to come soon
- k4ch0w 9y agoNo worries man. I love the initial site and concept. I can't wait to see more of it. I will show it to my team next week. I'd love to save screenshots and an autosave, I'm pretty forgetful. I will continue to use it and give you guys feedback. Nice work!
- ezconnect 9y agoHow do you search stuff you've save?
- murrayb 9y agoNice application, thanks. There really needs to be a way to change the order of to-do's. What happens to deleted to-do's? Gone forever? Also CodeOwl combined with graphviz (as shown here- https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/12/18/project-management-as-code-with-graphviz/ https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/12/18/project-management-as-co...) would be very cool- to-do list -> dependency diagram with colours updating as items are checked off...
- NKCSS 9y agoLooks nice, but I'd save everything to local storage when it's not saved to the server. I expected it to be still there when I press F5. Also, when you are dragging an item, make sure it get's the highers z-index, you don't want the tile you are holding to appear below another one while dragging.
- charbz 9y agoI like the localStorage persistence ! you can expect this feature to be there soon , thanks for the feedback
- kqr 9y agoSounds very interesting. Out of curiosity, why would I use this over, e.g. Org mode?
- charbz 9y agoI would say the most obvious difference is having all your notes / dashboards in the cloud, accessible through a web-browser, and being able to share them with others through a url
- squiggy22 9y agoVery cool. Be nice to have it as a Chrome plugin just to open it quickly, or have it there all the time as a new tab.
- charbz 9y agoWe were thinking of making a desktop client for codeowl , but chrome plugin might be even easier
- virgilp 9y agoNot just chrome. Some people use Firefox ;) I tried it, it's promising. I'd like a desktop app/ browser plugin version too, I think. But don't take just my word for it... I'm not sure I'm a good client for this sort of app (e.g. I don't pay for Evernote, just use it within their "free" limitations)
- d4nc00per 9y agonice work, looks very polished from the outset. Couple of things: - Items don't reflow when you remove them? I only added loads of notes and removed the top two, but the rest stayed off the screen.
- PurpleRamen 9y agoLooks interessting. Is there an export? Kanban might also be something to strive for. This should be easily implementable by just adding a column- or grid-layout with title-element at the top, per tab.
- charbz 9y agoexport sounds like an awesome feature to add .. I guess the format of the exported data is something I'd have to think about
- charbz 9y agoany format in particular ? .. JSON would be the most natural , XML is possible .. plain text probably the most useful
- PurpleRamen 9y agoWhatever would be simple and stable. So yaeh, JSON seems to be the obvious choice. I guess Firebase or your web-framework is already using it internally? Export is the natural downfall of every cloud-solution. Because if people have no way to get their data, many will not bother to bound with a closed up tool.
- syberspace 9y agoNo privacy policy, no about page. No info on who's actually behind this. No contact info whatsoever. Why should I register for an account or input any of my data?
- z5h 9y agoTo the CodeOwl developers: How did this Show HN work out for you? What kind of traffic did you get to your site? Did people give it a solid test-drive? Did they offer good suggestions, find bugs, etc? Thanks.
- charbz 9y agoWe got quite a bit of traffic , and the target group is perfect for codeowl, also the feedback has been overwhelming and mostly positive. I think Show HN is a great idea for dev tools
- z5h 9y agoAs someone planning to do a "Show HN", understanding what "quite a bit of traffic" means, would be helpful. Can you could divulge more details? Happy you got positive feedback. Seems like a good idea for a tool, and nicely implemented. Thanks.
- charbz 9y agoI guess it's all relative , but we recieved about 7200 unique user sessions in 2 days from HN. Let me know when your Show HN is published :)
- z5h 9y agoThanks. That's helpful. My app, if you care to take a look now: https://ixberg.com/#/invite/2018-hn-1 https://ixberg.com/#/invite/2018-hn-1 (anyone reading this can try this as well)
- jimt1234 9y agoFeature request: Search. If I don't have the ability to search search through all my Notes/Todos/Code/Links, then it's kinda useless to me. I like it a lot, though. Thumbs up.
- charbz 9y agoSearch is a feature we are working on for the next update
- charbz 9y agoThank you all for the great feedback you have given me. Please join the CodeOwl subreddit to stay in touch, I will be posting updates over there for all the features requested in this thread ! https://www.reddit.com/r/codeowl/ https://www.reddit.com/r/codeowl/ Happy Coding