Zeminary

5 ms·

1.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Zeminary is in Alpha until September 7th ... Alot of people asked for usecases. I'll make example documents in the future. Some off the top of my head: (1) translating & comparing & annotating translations (2) annotating dense
2.
by Zeminary 5y ago
(I'm in a kind of rush and your comment really inspired me, so the organization in this reply is pretty bad.) Well, there's nothing this or Treesheets does that nothing else (in MS Office) can't do or approximate. It's j
3.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Finished testing it. The markdown module works well as long as you don't use the fulleditor and the floateditor. But this creates an inconsistent user experience. I've decided to leave it out as a core feature for now. I'll r
4.
by Zeminary 5y ago
I will!
5.
by Zeminary 5y ago
I'll have to create a diff shortcut scheme for Apple users.
6.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Besides what's already been brought up, what other problems do you think there are?
7.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Zeminary was heading down that direction. But then I realized it might be better to maintain separate apps. For starters, Matrix (Classic) is only 2000 lines of code right now. This makes the codebase easy to maintain, and easy for develope
8.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Thanks. A video would take a really long time. I'll make one when I'm done fixing everything. One thing you could try right now is making a 10x10 grid, then clearing the borders of the 2nd column from the left. Everything on the r
9.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Sorry. Cell would be better. Thanks for catching that. Straight from Excel.
10.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Are you using it on mobile? It's meant to be used on desktop.
11.
by Zeminary 5y ago
I'll definitely make a comparison video or post. COPYPASTE: A video would take a really long time. I'll make one when I'm done fixing everything. One thing you could try right now is making a 10x10 grid, then clearing the bor
12.
by Zeminary 5y ago
It's just an analogy of music. Music is a succession of sounds. Ideamusic is a succession of ideas. Here's the guiding philosophy of Zeminary if you don't have a Twitter. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-GEC
13.
by Zeminary 5y ago
It's a bit "out there" as a guiding philosophy for a tech product. Here are the images. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-GECsGXoAEU3l6?format=png&name=... https://pbs.twimg.com/media&#x2
14.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Thanks! Glad to finally have someone have a use for this. Can you tell me more about your usecases?
15.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Off the top of your head, what might be a better shortcut scheme for Zeminary?
16.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Fun was a big part of it. If you use the hotkeys, it feels like a game with everything snapping about.
17.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Scrivener was my first writing app that wasn't a part of MS Office. I also recommend it. Tangentially, for anyone wondering — Zeminary isn't meant to replace other PKM and writing apps. You can have your ideas elsewhere, then asse
18.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Thanks alot tornadofart. It's Quill WYISWG. Quill has markdown modules. I'll go test them and then maybe add them in later. https://cloverhearts.github.io/quilljs-markdown/
19.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Thanks for driving the point home. I'll add tutorial text to the grids you see right now. I did half-ass the launch. I didn't expect it to actually be on the landing page of hackernews. I was expecting to just have a few users to
20.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Well, it's still linear, but with more dimensions. It thinks of writing as a progression of chords rather than as a progression of arpeggiations. EDIT: Actually, no you're right. It's nonlinear.
21.
by Zeminary 5y ago
I'll add in drag to move points. What's the problem with drag to resize? I'll add tooltips as someone else suggested earlier. I'll add hover options to make it easier to add new rows and columns. I've been relying o
22.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Here's my guiding philosophy (on Twitter). Zeminary to me is supposed to be an Ideamusicsheet. I didn't want to call it that in my post cause that just ... sounds a bit kooky. https://twitter.com/Zeminary/stat
23.
by Zeminary 5y ago
That's one benefit of Zeminary over other word processors. You can edit a paragraph without shifting the whole text. It gets really useful when you have to write a book or thesis or movie script. Anything very long really. Something I
24.
by Zeminary 5y ago
That's exactly what led me to make Zeminary. I kept running into problems with decomposing my thoughts in a way that didn't interfere with my main line of thought. Or with trying to grasp all the thoughts in a situation.
25.
by Zeminary 5y ago
Thanks for the GIF suggestion. Thanks for catching those UTF-8 errors. Thanks for letting me know about the title attribute. Yeah, I actually used it exactly like a higher resolution Trello to plan out this and other apps and the roadmap. I
26.
by Zeminary 5y ago
So, the main set of thoughts goes up and down, and the thoughts about the main set of thoughts go to the left and right. Usually on the same level but sometimes not. Writing books, movies, screenplays, etc. Contexts where subtext is heavy.
27.
by Zeminary 5y ago
I'll make the changes inside the webpage. It's like Excel but without automatic grids. You have to add them manually. The way I write, I think things and then I think ABOUT things. Word & Excel's structures kinda work for
28.
Show HN: A spreadsheet for writers(zeminary.com)
47 points by Zeminary 5y ago|54 comments
29.
by Zeminary 6y ago
I feel the same. Do you know of anyone else doing anything similar in the space?
30.
by Zeminary 6y ago
Can you expand on that? Everyone talks about Zettelkasten but not the products of Zettelkasten. It'd be nice to know more about your opinion on Luhmann's work.

More ›