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by adriano_f 13y ago
That's a bug that someone's reported before (through Twitter). Working on fixing it. No one can see your trees. The "bunch of text" bug has never happened before, will try to track it down. Probably due to the flood of t
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by adriano_f 13y ago
With better support mobile devices (including eReaders and whatever comes after them), we hope it'll be less of an issue as time goes on. Right now, we simply export the Markdown to flat text (breadth-first). But we will be adding PDF
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by adriano_f 13y ago
Cool, I hadn't seen that. Personally, I think that things like this Lens reader are evolutionary advances, but science communication needs a revolutionary change. I don't expect actual journals to be using Gingko any time soon, bu
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by adriano_f 13y ago
Cool, hadn't considered having a tag list at top. Thanks. Collapsing to "header only" is something we might have to add, after we implement infinite columns (so we can get a quicker overview of large trees). Thanks for the fe
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by adriano_f 13y ago
> This hits a lot of points that I've been looking for in an app/service. Glad to hear that, Jeremy. I've tagged you with "infinite-columns" in Intercom, so I can update you when we add that feature. > That pr
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by adriano_f 13y ago
Yes, that's a feature we have planned. Similar to the "Zen mode" in github. That will let you write a group of cards as one flow, and it'll split it into individual cards once you leave fullscreen.
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by adriano_f 13y ago
You can double-click the card to go into edit mode. Single click would be easier, but since we have drag-and-drop, and sometimes use clicking just for navigation, we have to use double-click to edit. (unless you have a better approach in mi
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by adriano_f 13y ago
Understood. We're planning on adding offline support, and a "Chrome Packaged App" version, so you could use Gingko offline entirely, and our servers will never touch your data. As for the format, we simply export to flat Mark
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by adriano_f 13y ago
Great, thanks for the feedback Zemi. We have the ability to filter, using the Search feature. You can just type @tags, and searching them will hide all cards that don't containt that text. Let me know if you have any other questions or
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by adriano_f 13y ago
It's great to have a film insider's take on this. The screenplay examples do only go up to the "scene card" level, but we plan to have more columns so you could add the script there as well. That way you could go start-
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by adriano_f 13y ago
Works on all modern browsers. Soon, will work on mobile as well. I've even been testing it on my Kindle this morning, and was surprised to see it (almost) works there too!
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by adriano_f 13y ago
Thanks Kiro! I should have used "Evernote + Workflowy" in the title, since that seems to be what people immediately understand about Gingko. Get in touch if you ever have any thoughts or questions.
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by adriano_f 13y ago
True, hierarchy is not a panacea. But I argue that it's better for new comers to have context & overview, and hierarchy helps with that.
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by adriano_f 13y ago
The hubris of the statement is not lost on me, but what should a founder be but delusional and optimistic :) 1. It's both a viewer and a word processor. It relies on Markdown (and LaTeX through extensions). We export to Md, but will be
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by adriano_f 13y ago
Thanks for your feedback! Yes, the idea of simply embedding parts of other people's papers right there, instead of citations, is something I'm excited about. Literature review is such a pain, and could be a lot better. As for smal
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by adriano_f 13y ago
We considered adding "lazy registration", but we're a team of just two, and decided to focus on improving the product and helping our users. Might do in the future, but for now, that's what we have.
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by adriano_f 13y ago
Yes, Ted Nelson has some similar work in this line. But I think he went too far with the N dimensions... Text is linear, Gingko text is 2-dimensional. With it, we can represent more than two dimensions, by simply "slicing" along a
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by adriano_f 13y ago
Yes, we're definitely working on adding arbirary depth. We are starting with three because it's enough to realize the benefits. Infinite depth is coming (as well as other exciting features).
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by adriano_f 13y ago
Thanks! Screenwriting was one of the initial inspirations for the UI, because screenplays are naturally hierarchical (logline > Acts > Sequences > Scenes > Beats).
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by adriano_f 13y ago
Agreed. And I think we greatly underestimate how much this is holding Science back.
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by adriano_f 13y ago
Yes, it has similarities to WorkFlowy. We sometimes say "Evernote + Workflowy = Gingko" :)
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Show HN: Gingko, a tree-document editor(gingkoapp.com)
140 points by adriano_f 13y ago|132 comments
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by adriano_f 13y ago
Yes, it might take some getting used to. It's a new word processor, that's a mix between an outliner and index cards. (think of it as "Workflowy + Evernote"). If you're still confused, maybe this (<90 sec) video
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by adriano_f 13y ago
I just posted a link to the Hyperloop spec, written as a "tree document"... Makes it easier to quickly absorb the main points. https://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://gingkoapp.com/hyperloop
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Hyperloop Doc as a Tree(gingkoapp.com)
9 points by adriano_f 13y ago|4 comments
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by adriano_f 14y ago
I have to say, that was a good talk. Not flashy, no bullshit, and she seens very down-to-earth and approachable, for being the CEO of a multi-million dollar company. A lot of what she said reminded me of "Good to Great".
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by adriano_f 14y ago
I agree with you completely. I go as far as putting technologies like social media, smartphones, and immersive never-ending game worlds into the same category as recreational drugs. These things make it far easier to artificially trigger ou
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by adriano_f 14y ago
I like the idea of making sure your tasks have a certain amount of "stretch" (i.e. push yourself a little with every task you give yourself). We focus so much on our skill level that we forget that the "flow" state requires challenging your
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by adriano_f 14y ago
I agree. I think picking the "top 50" projects is just asking for trouble. Those are victims of their success, and have to scale from 0 to mass production on a tight schedule. Going from zero to a few hundred early adopters is much more fea
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by adriano_f 15y ago
Interesting experiment. Reminds me of Borges's "The Library of Babel". Would be interesting to see all tweets using only lower-case alphabet plus spaces. (~ 2.5e200)

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