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Show HN: Mmap.it – personal search without context switching

29 points by pdepip 6y ago

jasonshen 6y ago
This is neat! Can you tell me how you got around to building this and what it's most useful for? I'm not a programmer but I've been thinking a lot about migrating out of Evernote to Roam or Notion and this made me think of that.
- pdepip 6y ago
  Thanks! Glad you think so. I've found it's most useful for workflow documentation and code snippets. The main reason I built mmap is I started a new job a few months ago which required learning a ton of new workflows that leveraged a bunch of unfamiliar technologies. Documentation for these was scattered over github, confluence, google groups, etc. which made it both time consuming and difficult to find what I was looking for. I wanted to be able to save documentation and code snippets in my own words so I could quickly find it without switching windows. It's lead to a noticeable jump in my productivity so far.
IOT_Apprentice 6y ago
As this runs on macos, any plans to make it universal binary for both macos and iOS/iPadOS?
- pdepip 6y ago
  We are planning on releasing for both windows and linux soon. Due to the app being focused on accessibility for developer workflows, mobile applications are a little further out on the product roadmap but will be coming eventually!
geoelectric 6y ago
Any plans for dark mode? It's a dealbreaker not having it on Mac post-Mojave IMO.
- pdepip 6y ago
  Yes 100%, you're not the first person to ask. It might be sacrilegious to admit but I never use dark mode so it slipped to back of mind.
raghavkhanna 6y ago
I love how focused it is! Would this work on linux in case I build it from source? Just tried it out on my mac and seems to be a little buggy at the moment. The editor doesn't seem to reliably respond to keystrokes and the search window went blank a couple of times. I guess it needs some polish, but I like the UI a lot.
- pdepip 6y ago
  Thanks that really means a lot, the feedback is very much appreciated! Building from source should work on linux. I'm still ironing out a lot of the kinks, the search window going blank is at the top of my list and I am also working on editor reliability. Hope you can get the full value out of this once I've made it more reliable!
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29 points by pdepip 6y ago

This is neat! Can you tell me how you got around to building this and what it's most useful for? I'm not a programmer but I've been thinking a lot about migrating out of Evernote to Roam or Notion and this made me think of that.

pdepip 6y ago
Thanks! Glad you think so. I've found it's most useful for workflow documentation and code snippets. The main reason I built mmap is I started a new job a few months ago which required learning a ton of new workflows that leveraged a bunch of unfamiliar technologies. Documentation for these was scattered over github, confluence, google groups, etc. which made it both time consuming and difficult to find what I was looking for. I wanted to be able to save documentation and code snippets in my own words so I could quickly find it without switching windows. It's lead to a noticeable jump in my productivity so far.

IOT_Apprentice 6y ago

As this runs on macos, any plans to make it universal binary for both macos and iOS/iPadOS?

pdepip 6y ago
We are planning on releasing for both windows and linux soon. Due to the app being focused on accessibility for developer workflows, mobile applications are a little further out on the product roadmap but will be coming eventually!

geoelectric 6y ago

Any plans for dark mode? It's a dealbreaker not having it on Mac post-Mojave IMO.

pdepip 6y ago
Yes 100%, you're not the first person to ask. It might be sacrilegious to admit but I never use dark mode so it slipped to back of mind.

raghavkhanna 6y ago

I love how focused it is! Would this work on linux in case I build it from source? Just tried it out on my mac and seems to be a little buggy at the moment. The editor doesn't seem to reliably respond to keystrokes and the search window went blank a couple of times. I guess it needs some polish, but I like the UI a lot.

pdepip 6y ago
Thanks that really means a lot, the feedback is very much appreciated! Building from source should work on linux. I'm still ironing out a lot of the kinks, the search window going blank is at the top of my list and I am also working on editor reliability. Hope you can get the full value out of this once I've made it more reliable!

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