Reminds me also of Andy Matuschak's "working notes" project.[0] This kind of UI feels very natural. I've often thought about how this kind of UI might work in a browser, e.g. wrt tabs/history.

[0] https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes

We think similarly. I saw your other app. https://www.ussherpress.com/cardbuddy/ It's like a better version of my first offline web app. https://zeminary.com/matrix/app.html

Thanks. One thing I kept thinking while making this was, I don't want to create an MVP, I want to create the simplest & most complete way to learn how to do & then do powerful work.

It only works on Chrome & Edge. I haven't tested it on Firefox, Safari, etc.

Thanks. & here are some ideas. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43012478 & some more ideas. You can also work out an outline or timeline or table of characters & settings & objects in the editors to the right. You can also get your editors to write their overarching feedback & questions in the editors to the right. I also designed this for screenwriting so you can get more ideas by reading up on how screenwriters do their work. It's clunky to format to standards acceptable to the industry, but the industry standards seem pointless & counterproductive, so it's maybe good to be forced to focus on content over form.

About the second point. In Word, you can easily get feedback for specific paragraphs by just writing around or underneath those paragraphs, or for the whole by just writing in another document & keeping that document open in another window or in the same window. But you can't easily get feedback for specific chapters, & you can't do any of these things while easily keeping chapter-specific notes always in view. This among other reasons is why this app is maybe more powerful than Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Obsidian, etc. It balances notetaking & reflection & writing. Microsoft Word & Google Docs focus too much on writing, & have very little capability in the other 2. Obsidian focuses too much on notetaking, & has very little capability in the other 2. None of them integrate all 3.

About reflection. With Word, the moment you make changes to the document, all the stuff written to the side goes out of sync. So it's best just to write in sequence. So Word has no advantage there.

Yeah. Stuff like Obsidian. I think they focus too much on building knowledge bases. & that Microsoft Word focuses too little. This app, you just take whatever notes you need to get things done.

For local-only functionality: Worked for me. In firefox, even!

I downloaded the html file and then ran it from my desktop. Functionality didn't seem to be changed by it.

I found that SEARCH returns the file # that the search pattern is in. Hope that helps.

You just type whatever, then the list underneath will filter out anything that doesn't have the search terms either in the title or text. You don't need to ENTER. You shouldn't ENTER.

Search & replace is very important. I'll implement that in the future.

It can be used on desktop as long as you have an internet connection. If you look at the source code you'll see it sources some CDN files. I'm planning on taking it totally offline.

I made it to write one poem, & to learn how to code with HTML & CSS & JS. There's one kinda practical usecase though. You can take notes either freeform or of different types for each paragraph of an essay, where each column is maybe notes of the same type. But you have to constantly resize rows to accommodate changes in paragraph length. It's very clunky. The only reason I haven't deleted it is because my dad likes it. I can't imagine why anyone else would though. It used to have autoresize but it just created wasted space. But without it you have to scroll individual editors.

The most offensive part of Tabs to me:

> If you download or print from Google Docs, you'll only download or print the active tab. If you want to download or print all tabs at once, you can do it from Google Drive

This is multiple documents, barely/mildly organized. I have yet to see someone use these tabs at work though, so maybe everyone is rejecting them as poorly implemented organization. What am I missing about Tabs?

"document-based workflows" are a good idea[0] but I think this is a terrible execution of it.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20040625150625/https://www.edwar....

Thanks man. Tell your friends about it if you can. Doesn't seem like it's getting alot of traction on this website.

Yeah, it's not meant to be used on mobile. The way it's designed makes it basically desktop only.

Also, the undo only works within editors. It doesn't work across editors. It takes some time getting used to, but I think this way is actually better. I was frequently alternating between taking notes & writing the chapter, & I didn't want to have to undo the work on my chapter in the process of undoing the work on my notes. So I just took out the global undo. It reduced LoC by alot & improved UX.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43012397

It was an experiment. I realized it was too clunky, but I also realized that it would've worked really well as just a single row. It took alot of thinking to realize that though. I spent a lot of time imagining more complex systems before realizing that a single row worked best. I imagined things like a kanban for writing but with twists, with inspirations from Gingko. https://gingkowriter.com/

I'll make a Github in a few days after I clean up the source code.

click-and-drag m to move, d to delete (after confirmation)

Thanks. Spread the good word.