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I love this! Simple and solid execution. I've been wanting to build something similar for some time now, might fork and play around with it. Thank you for open
by evnc 3y ago
I love this! Simple and solid execution. I've been wanting to build something similar for some time now, might fork and play around with it. Thank you for open sourcing it!
I've started using Obsidian with a new note for each day and separating "blocks" with a Markdown horizontal rule (`---`) to achieve something similar, but this is much cleaner.
The strength of such an approach is making capture extremely easy -- new block, start writing, no thinking about where this goes and how to fit it into pre-existing structure. I find that if I'm trying to do that, then by the time I find where my idea goes, I've lost the idea.
The downside, of course, is finding things again. The ability to tag or title a block and search by tag or title would be great. More ambitiously, it would be cool to experiment with incorporating LLMs and embeddings to automatically tag, summarize, categorize, cluster etc. your blocks.
There's a lot of different directions one could take this, but I'll echo the sentiment of others to refrain from adding too many features and losing the original appeal of simplicity. :)
Also: How do you handle performance when the buffer gets very large?
- mkl 3y agoIt's not open source, as it uses the Commons Clause which severely limits what can be done with it (the name is misleading).
- prartichoke 3y agoAs far as a quick google search got me, it seems pretty open with the only caveat being you can't sell or monetize it... how is that not open source?
- aryonoco 3y agoIf you put any restrictions on usage or what can be done with it (like selling), then it's absolutely not open source. open source doesn't mean source code is there. open source has a specific definition. There is a list of acceptable open source licenses, as defined by OSI. similarly there is a list of acceptable free software licenses, as defined by FSF. Broadly, the two lists are the same. Commons Clause is definitely not open source.
- bityard 3y agoThere exists a niche of commercial software developers who are actively attempting to water down the commonly accepted meaning of "open source" for their own gain, and I suspect they are voting you down. :(
- j1elo 3y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted. Even the Commons Clause itself is clear about it: https://commonsclause.com/#faq https://commonsclause.com/#faq > Is this “Open Source”? > No.
- jonatanheyman 3y agoI didn't put too much consideration into picking a license. If someone has compelling arguments for why I should license it differently, I would absolutely consider it.
- mkl 3y agoIf you want to make commercial profit unlikely but encourage contributions and widespread use, GPL would probably work better than Commons Clause.
- niels_bom 3y agoI use Obsidian for my programming notes, troubleshooting logs, thinking on “paper”, writing and checking assumptions. It’s very powerful and quite performant. AMA.
- jonatanheyman 3y agoPerformance is mostly handled by CodeMirror (https://codemirror.net/ https://codemirror.net/), the underlying editor that Heynote is built upon. It seems to handle quite large buffers well. Where I have seen some minor performance issues is when working with very large blocks in certain language modes.