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Great product and new features! Will definitely try it out when I get a chance. While I am right in your target user base, over a decade ago I built https://zet

by chime 4y ago

Great product and new features! Will definitely try it out when I get a chance. While I am right in your target user base, over a decade ago I built https://zetabee.com/text https://zetabee.com/text for myself and even though there are now so many better solutions to the text outlining problem, it is just too difficult for me to switch. Not sure what your keyboard binding for collapse/expand is but I played with backtick (single key) and loved it because it just feels natural and I never type ` in my notes. Long ago, I tried to make a better autocomplete feature so people with speech disabilities have fewer buttons to push. Here's what I did - https://ktype.net/wiki/research:articles:progress_20110209 https://ktype.net/wiki/research:articles:progress_20110209 - basically broke down tweets into n-grams (1-4) and then used the 5 most likely next words as suggestions. If I were to do this today, I would still try to get a large volume of text in my target use case (what do most of your users type? Tech project notes? home construction items? grocery lists) and break them down into large lists of 2-3 n-grams. Then ask GPT3 (or equivalent) for 3 possible suggestion for next 1-2 words and save them. Compress and hard-code this list into the app (or alternatively make it download/update from your site infrequently). If you would like me to explain more, please feel free to reach out!

jessegrosjean 4y ago
Your outline project looks great. Hard to beat an app that you make yourself and can change when you see fit. Bike does have a keyboard shortcut for expand/collapse, but truth is I don't remember what it is without looking. Instead what I do is always exit to "outline mode" with escape key, and then use left/right arrow keys. Outline mode is inspired by vim, it's a mode where there is no text input, so you can use typing keys for other purposes. Right now it does very little, mostly just expand/collapse and delete. I hope to expand on this in future, but right now I'm more focused on text editing fundamentals. Thanks for the autocomplete links. I maybe didn't explain well in my question... but I think I'll leave the actual autocomplete logic to macOS. I want to integrate with their autocomplete system so users will have consistent experience that way. I'm more interested in UI problems of indication that correction has happened and easy undo when corrections go wrong. In this regard I think macOS is pretty poor. For example on macOS if you type "hello " then after the space it will be corrected to "Hello ". If that's not what you wanted then there aren't really easy options to undo. Of course you can undo... but that will remove the space and then select "hello". Then another few keystrokes to get back to what you wanted. On the other hand in Google docs all you need to do is backspace and it undoes the autocorrect. I like that and will probably copy, but am looking for more autocorrect systems to learn from.

by chime 4y ago

jessegrosjean 4y ago

Your outline project looks great. Hard to beat an app that you make yourself and can change when you see fit. Bike does have a keyboard shortcut for expand/collapse, but truth is I don't remember what it is without looking. Instead what I do is always exit to "outline mode" with escape key, and then use left/right arrow keys. Outline mode is inspired by vim, it's a mode where there is no text input, so you can use typing keys for other purposes. Right now it does very little, mostly just expand/collapse and delete. I hope to expand on this in future, but right now I'm more focused on text editing fundamentals. Thanks for the autocomplete links. I maybe didn't explain well in my question... but I think I'll leave the actual autocomplete logic to macOS. I want to integrate with their autocomplete system so users will have consistent experience that way. I'm more interested in UI problems of indication that correction has happened and easy undo when corrections go wrong. In this regard I think macOS is pretty poor. For example on macOS if you type "hello " then after the space it will be corrected to "Hello ". If that's not what you wanted then there aren't really easy options to undo. Of course you can undo... but that will remove the space and then select "hello". Then another few keystrokes to get back to what you wanted. On the other hand in Google docs all you need to do is backspace and it undoes the autocorrect. I like that and will probably copy, but am looking for more autocorrect systems to learn from.