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Show HN: CodeOwl – Organize your notes, todos, and code snippets in one place

130 pointsby charbzover 7 years ago

28 comments

dugmartinover 7 years ago
Nice. I&#x27;d suggest automatically adding a todo list that had tasks about discovering all the features when a new user first loads the app. Having an essentially blank screen is going to cause a lot of users to bounce.<p>Also, I&#x27;d set<p><pre><code> .workspace { overflow: hidden} </code></pre> as I&#x27;m getting a double scrollbar in Chrome (Windows 10).
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chipfunkover 7 years ago
Good stuff. I could see myself using this. A few bits of feedback:<p>- Notes should be clamped to screen. There seems to be no limit to how far off screen I can drag something, after which I cannot bring it back (unless I create another note).<p>- It would be nice if there was some way to snap the notes along a grid so that it&#x27;s easier to arrange things neatly.<p>- Collapsible notes would be nice (e.g. collapsing the note so that only the header is visible). Right now each tab has a very limited amount of space.
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murraybover 7 years ago
Nice application, thanks.<p>There really needs to be a way to change the order of to-do&#x27;s.<p>What happens to deleted to-do&#x27;s? Gone forever?<p>Also CodeOwl combined with graphviz (as shown here- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zwischenzugs.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;project-management-as-code-with-graphviz&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zwischenzugs.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;project-management-as-co...</a>) would be very cool- to-do list -&gt; dependency diagram with colours updating as items are checked off...
bevanover 7 years ago
Congrats on launch!<p>A call to action could be useful. &quot;Welcome to CodeOwl! Create your first note&#x2F;link now.&quot;<p>Looks nice!
syberspaceover 7 years ago
No privacy policy, no about page. No info on who&#x27;s actually behind this. No contact info whatsoever. Why should I register for an account or input any of my data?
foltaover 7 years ago
Any possibility of allowing self-hosting? Would be fantastic to run on my local dev server.
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dan678over 7 years ago
Really cool. Like others have mentioned, tiling would be great. Free form isn&#x27;t bad though, maybe make a toggle between free form and tiling?
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charbzover 7 years ago
Thank you all for the great feedback you have given me. Please join the CodeOwl subreddit to stay in touch, I will be posting updates over there for all the features requested in this thread !<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;codeowl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;codeowl&#x2F;</a><p>Happy Coding
semperdarkover 7 years ago
Bug report: When I add an invalid link (Like &quot;123&quot;) to the Links widget it sends a request to &quot;publicApi&#x2F;links&quot; which hangs for a few minutes before failing.<p>It looks like you&#x27;re requesting the URL server-side to provide a preview, you may want to validate the URL before making the request, or catch invalid requests.
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z5hover 7 years ago
To the CodeOwl developers: How did this Show HN work out for you?<p>What kind of traffic did you get to your site? Did people give it a solid test-drive? Did they offer good suggestions, find bugs, etc?<p>Thanks.
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guptat59over 7 years ago
Nice tool. I would make urls just clickable and hyperlink them. CodeOwl may not have access to everything I paste there and some urls may be broken if you don&#x27;t have access.
binaryapparatusover 7 years ago
<p><pre><code> CodeOwl is not yet supported on small screen resolutions :( ... </code></pre> Running in w3m on FreeBSD, decently large screen :)
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NKCSSover 7 years ago
Looks nice, but I&#x27;d save everything to local storage when it&#x27;s not saved to the server. I expected it to be still there when I press F5.<p>Also, when you are dragging an item, make sure it get&#x27;s the highers z-index, you don&#x27;t want the tile you are holding to appear below another one while dragging.
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INTPenisover 7 years ago
I love it, a small project space manager.<p>But what does it use for storage? Do you have a backend or is it all browser storage? I assume backend since Firefox never prompted me about using browser storage.<p>Reason I ask is that all free things come to an end. Just like Taiga.io, which I used before for minor project management.
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polartxover 7 years ago
This is exactly the kind of application my life needs! I&#x27;ve been using the Notes section of the toolbelt of Sublime.<p>edit- autosave would be great though. I made all these notes, then left for an hour (without saving), when I came back the page refreshed itself and everything was gone.
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k4ch0wover 7 years ago
Very cool man. I could definitely see myself using this. Is there a mode to set new notes to tiling mode rather than down a list? Something similar to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i3wm.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i3wm.org&#x2F;</a>
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chewmieserover 7 years ago
Random bug: All panes seem to accept pressing &lt;enter&gt; as valid input. The URL pane seems to spin forever if you just press &lt;enter&gt;.<p>Neat though, agreed with adding a todo to help the user navigate their first time through.
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jimt1234over 7 years ago
Feature request: Search. If I don&#x27;t have the ability to search search through all my Notes&#x2F;Todos&#x2F;Code&#x2F;Links, then it&#x27;s kinda useless to me. I like it a lot, though. Thumbs up.
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PurpleRamenover 7 years ago
Looks interessting. Is there an export?<p>Kanban might also be something to strive for. This should be easily implementable by just adding a column- or grid-layout with title-element at the top, per tab.
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eindiranover 7 years ago
I really like this and can imagine using it regularly. Do you have any plans to support more color options in the future?
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squiggy22over 7 years ago
Very cool. Be nice to have it as a Chrome plugin just to open it quickly, or have it there all the time as a new tab.
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wellpastover 7 years ago
Where is my Clojure syntax highlighting?
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kqrover 7 years ago
Sounds very interesting. Out of curiosity, why would I use this over, e.g. Org mode?
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hitgeekover 7 years ago
nice work!<p>I couldn&#x27;t figure out how to exit the full screen interactive code view.<p>The button to delete a todo and &quot;check&quot; a todo are pretty close together, easy to click the wrong one. maybe move the check to the left side of the text?<p>adding links is really slow.
chrisjhover 7 years ago
Hey @charbz great project! How can I get in touch to provide some feedback?
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d4nc00perover 7 years ago
nice work, looks very polished from the outset.<p>Couple of things: - Items don&#x27;t reflow when you remove them? I only added loads of notes and removed the top two, but the rest stayed off the screen.
ezconnectover 7 years ago
How do you search stuff you&#x27;ve save?
urdaover 7 years ago
Can tabs not be renamed?
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