A plain text note-taking system for problem solving

Reminds me a little of [Numi](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;numi.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;numi.app&#x2F;</a>). It doesn&#x27;t exactly like plain text, but will happily eat it, but loves the math part. Seems this is the opposite of that, loves the text, but will happily digest math.

Why would I use this instead of org-mode (and babel) and maybe org-roam?

Looks great. But when solving a multi-step calculation problem, what is the unique selling point of your product vs jupyter notebook or google colab? Thanks

Very cool. I use plaintext lists for virtually everything. But generally, they&#x27;re on my phone. I use Safe Notes, which allows you to encrypt individual notes. I wouldn&#x27;t want to keep them in the cloud, and I use DDG browser so I&#x27;m not keeping a lot of local storage hanging around.<p>I would absolutely purchase this if it were packaged as an Android app.

I’m wondering if this is intended to become a place to publish public notebooks like observablehq.com? I think Observable benefits a lot from having lots of other people’s notebooks to use as inspiration.

I can&#x27;t tell how to use the defining forms at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calculist.io&#x2F;markup" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calculist.io&#x2F;markup</a>. These work:<p><pre><code> * \= 2*3 * \(x, y) = x+y </code></pre> However I&#x27;m not sure how to define a new function. Here&#x27;s what I tried:<p><pre><code> * \: foo (x, y) = x+y # no error * \=foo(2, 3) # error * \:barr = 2*3 # no error * \=barr # error</code></pre>

I had trouble finding documentation, is it possible to collapse&#x2F;expand the text tree from the keyboard? Are there other keyboard commands?

I think the term ‘plain text’ has evolved from its original meaning. Today, it seems to mean “can be opened in a text editor”.

This is very cool! It would be neat to see more examples of it in use. I didn&#x27;t see any sort of example gallery.

Math.js does the same thing. Demo on lucianmarin.com&#x2F;num for some math, works on the phone too.

Very interesting - if it&#x27;s a Desktop app it could replace my usage of Calca.

This is the MVP of Roam.

This is not plain text. Plain text by definition is plain. It&#x27;s like calling LaTeX plain text.

Since this project is not really active, if you are looking for a modern take on fully local WYSIWYG note taking where you own the files, I highly recommend checking out my project <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bangle.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bangle.io</a>.<p>- It is fully local web app .. no servers no data hoarding.<p>- No proprietary format, it saves your notes in markdown in your computer.<p>- It is WYSIWYG editor so that you don&#x27;t have to switch context.