3 ms·

How does this work when I want to take personal notes on source code, not push them anywhere? For those who'd ask why anybody would want or should be allowed s

How does this work when I want to take personal notes on source code, not push them anywhere? For those who'd ask why anybody would want or should be allowed such a thing: There's little distinction to me between thoughts in my head and notes in a file on disk, fundamentally and practically. I don't think it's a good thing to push all my thoughts that happen to be on disk to the cloud. Or mount my local emacs configuration, which I sometimes tweak and currently just save to disk and carry on with my work (I'm not asking how to run emacs in gitpod, I know there was some work on that)? Am I out of luck, gitpod/insurer/employer knows best? Or are there ways provided accessible to individual developers to 1. do arbitrary customization and 2. "mount" writeable directories from a laptop filesystem (or something similar)?

ghuntley 5y ago
Hey thingification, Geoff here from Gitpod. I build Gitpod with Gitpod in Gitpod from an iPad. For taking notes I use the iPadOS15 notes feature by swiping from the bottom right hand hot corner. https://ghuntley.com/anywhere https://ghuntley.com/anywhere Have you blogged about your method of note taking? Are they done in-line on the code? I see the mention of emacs (high five) but have you come across https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsls-contrib.codetour https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsls-con... yet? I wonder if such a thing exists yet for emacs…
- thingification 5y ago
  I use emacs to take notes, yes. I haven't seen any other tool that has similar features for that purpose. But more to the point, I don't want to have to justify every tiny aspect of my development environment. Does gitpod provide a way out of that sort of authoritarian system? > For taking notes I use the iPadOS15 notes feature by swiping from the bottom right hand hot corner. Honest question: what does swiping have to do with how to not have all my personal notes in the cloud? Hm, I think perhaps you're saying one can keep notes that are not in the dev environment at all? Of course that's true, but I'm incredibly accustomed to working entirely in a heavily customized emacs, switching between org-mode buffers and code. Sometimes that's via org links to specific tiny fragments of code content (a link to e.g. a filename + the text "def my_function(" will take me right there even if the code changes a bit).

ghuntley 5y ago

Hey thingification, Geoff here from Gitpod. I build Gitpod with Gitpod in Gitpod from an iPad. For taking notes I use the iPadOS15 notes feature by swiping from the bottom right hand hot corner. https://ghuntley.com/anywhere https://ghuntley.com/anywhere Have you blogged about your method of note taking? Are they done in-line on the code? I see the mention of emacs (high five) but have you come across https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsls-contrib.codetour https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsls-con... yet? I wonder if such a thing exists yet for emacs…

thingification 5y ago
I use emacs to take notes, yes. I haven't seen any other tool that has similar features for that purpose. But more to the point, I don't want to have to justify every tiny aspect of my development environment. Does gitpod provide a way out of that sort of authoritarian system? > For taking notes I use the iPadOS15 notes feature by swiping from the bottom right hand hot corner. Honest question: what does swiping have to do with how to not have all my personal notes in the cloud? Hm, I think perhaps you're saying one can keep notes that are not in the dev environment at all? Of course that's true, but I'm incredibly accustomed to working entirely in a heavily customized emacs, switching between org-mode buffers and code. Sometimes that's via org links to specific tiny fragments of code content (a link to e.g. a filename + the text "def my_function(" will take me right there even if the code changes a bit).