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Show HN: 5iler – a repurposable minimalist notepad

46 pointsby sidyadavalmost 11 years ago

20 comments

guptaneilalmost 11 years ago
Neat, minimalist idea. I like it.<p>Small nitpicky feedback: Your keyboard shortcuts say to use cmd + 1&#x2F;2&#x2F;3 to switch files. In Safari, that will load the first&#x2F;second&#x2F;third bookmark. The correct shortcut for Safari is ctrl + 1&#x2F;2&#x2F;3
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adestefanalmost 11 years ago
You might want to fix your shortcut help. I don&#x27;t have a cmd key on my Linux system.
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lobotryasalmost 11 years ago
Cool idea, nice implementation!<p>Feature request: please implement lists either as a keyboard shortcut or as a text macro. Both ordered (numbered) and un-ordered preferred.<p>BTW, for anyone who didn&#x27;t catch it: you can change the name of each notepad. Just double-click the name, type what you want and it&#x27;ll be saved.
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dmdalmost 11 years ago
Two requests:<p>1) I&#x27;d like the titles to be Markdown-friendly headings instead of C comments, personally.<p>2) I&#x27;m not sure if this is within scope - maybe this is just something to do on my own in Dropbox - but it would be neat if there were an &#x27;archive&#x27; button. Let&#x27;s say I&#x27;m done with one of my files and I want to clear it out. Push the button, and that file would be moved to archived&#x2F;DATETIME.txt or something like that, and cleared.
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gniquilalmost 11 years ago
Great job! Like the concept. But here&#x27;s another nitpick.<p>I see when you activate a file, the animation first shrinks the file a bit and then expands it out. Is it possible to remove the shrinking? It makes the app &quot;feel&quot; a bit jerky. I think the reason is when you shrink the activating file, all other files expand by a bit. This causes the whole screen shifting a bit, leading to a somewhat jarring experience for a split second.
jason_slackalmost 11 years ago
Interesting app. I actually like it because I use a paper planner that is laid out in columns like the app. (like this: <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UQkLuS4qZtA/UTyyzpS9suI/AAAAAAAAAHs/cDQdsRTHKFw/s1600/M-F+Column+Grid.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;2.bp.blogspot.com&#x2F;-UQkLuS4qZtA&#x2F;UTyyzpS9suI&#x2F;AAAAAAAAAH...</a>)
jogloranalmost 11 years ago
Text editor-like tabbing behaviour (new line preserves last line&#x27;s tab level) for indented lists would be quite useful.
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cliveowenalmost 11 years ago
Really nifty and very well done.<p>If you have time down the road you could think of implementing one feature that every modern text editor for some reason lacks: autocorrect. TextEdit on Mac has some form of autocorrect but mostly sucks, I don&#x27;t know why in 2014 we&#x27;re still using the backspace but I feel it&#x27;s time to move on.
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ThatFontFace44almost 11 years ago
In Chrome, the font is rather difficult to read. For example, l and t look very similar.<p>Great idea - it looks very promising :D
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cshimminalmost 11 years ago
Cool idea, not sure I like how the web app hijacks Command+N keys though (I use these often to switch between browser tabs). Lately I&#x27;ve been using a similar ~5 categories, and just emailing things to myself. I put the &quot;tag&quot; in the subject line have gmail filter them into labels.
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mwalshalmost 11 years ago
I really like this, especially that it handles the tab key properly. I find it frustrating that it hijacks ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab as well though. I use those to switch browser tabs. I&#x27;m on Linux + Firefox.
newsomderekalmost 11 years ago
I&#x27;m interested in what 5 categories people would use in their own 5iler?
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Jonovonoalmost 11 years ago
Looks nice. I have been using <a href="http://selfcoded.com/justnotes/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;selfcoded.com&#x2F;justnotes&#x2F;</a> instead of evernote, but I will check this out!
brightghostalmost 11 years ago
I don&#x27;t get what the &#x27;insert line divider&#x27; is meant to be. It seems to just insert a large, fixed amount of whitespace characters?
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luchosrockalmost 11 years ago
Good idea! it works pretty good in FF but in Chrome when I type &quot;-&quot; nothing gets printed, and when I type = it prints &quot;-&quot;.
comrhalmost 11 years ago
Nice, I really like it.<p>My suggestions might be out of line with the minimalist philosophy but:<p>1) Code coloring or at least code blocks<p>2) The ability to open two at the same time, side by side
alokedesaialmost 11 years ago
For the desktop version, I&#x27;m having problems with undo. Occasionally, if I delete something, I won&#x27;t be able to undo it.
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sidyadavalmost 11 years ago
FYI: I am planning to open source the code within the next two weeks. Please get in touch if you&#x27;re interested in contributing!<p>hello@5iler.com
jonathanmarvensalmost 11 years ago
I absolutely love this!
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darkstar999almost 11 years ago
&gt; 5iler (pronounced ‘filer’)<p>No. This isn&#x27;t intuitive at all.<p>Five-iler?
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