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Show HN: wābisābi — distraction-free writing

12 pointsby ruidlopesover 13 years ago
A simple, in-browser, fullscreen text editor (a la WriteRoom and Byword.app) http://wabisabi.cc<p>Feedback welcome!

6 comments

loevborgover 13 years ago
This is really excellent. I like the concept a lot. Here are some of the things I really like:<p>- This uses a proportional font. Most web-based editors I've seen so far used monospace, which, frankly, makes them bad for writing prose. The font is really nice, too. Also, importantly, proper line spacing! - The F11 feature is clever. - The word count on the bottom is unobtrusive and elegant.<p>My use case is writing long (30.000 words+) documents with few formulae. Right now I use Vim, which is nice feature-wise, of course, but not perfect for prose. I write using "markdown" markup, for headings, italics and so forth. I use pandoc to turn it into LaTeX and xelatex to turn that into a PDF. It works beautifully, even for academic texts.<p>What I love about Vim are its key-bindings. It would be fantastic to add this to wabasabi. I don't whink I'll use another editor which doesn't have this feature. I'm sure I am in a tiny minority in this respect.<p>You could also add pandoc integration in the future. It's a great piece of software. It also has a few extensions to markdown, including footnotes and bibliographic references. It's extensible as well.<p>I just wrote this comment using wabisabi, and I like the experience a lot. Are you going to turn this into a commercial project? If you need help, send me a mail (in my profile).
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revoradover 13 years ago
I like it but one of these comes out every week and none of them ever stick around :-)<p>So I'm reluctant to invest any time in it. You need to stay around and make me come back.<p>The F11 thing is clever, but please also add a mouse-clickable button.<p>The name also probably means something relevant, but it's impossible for me to remember.<p>Here's an idea: get listed on the Chrome Web Store. If I install your app from there, I'll see it every time I start Chrome.
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sunspeckover 13 years ago
I love this breed of editor. Your implementation is pretty sweet, especially the quick save/email controls.<p>I'd much rather, though, just see a list of my documents than the too clever hidden dropdown. Right now it's two clicks and a three-key stroke just to open a saved document. Not so wabi-sabi.<p>And the word count is useful, but for "distraction-free writing" I shouldn't be forced to see it all the time.
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djeckhartover 13 years ago
Your control-command-F shortcut conflicts with the native "Enter Full Screen" shortcut on OS X 10.7; I can't see how to create a new document without remapping the default key binding.
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scottyallenover 13 years ago
Very slick. I tend to jump into fullscreen MacVim when I want to write distraction free, but this is clean enough I could see using it for some tasks.
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tingletechover 13 years ago
I could not figure out how to type anything (I'm using firefox) and now firefox is stuck in full screen mode and I can't get out of it.
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