Show HN: Octarine – a fast, lightweight, opinionated Markdown notes app

42 pointsposted 5 days ago
by rajatkulk

18 Comments

maheshgawali

3 days ago

Been an early supporter Love the features, simple and fast Looking forward to more task mgmt features to help organize the day along with note taking Please add dictation and summarise mode too Don't need collaboration features but could be great to have Google drive support to backup the data.

All the best and keep up the good work

vladsanchez

5 days ago

I fought the urge to try anything else other than https://Dendron.so The wait is over. Seems like the perfect replacement, it checks all the boxes: "Lightweight, Opinionated, Yours".

I predict you HUGE success!

Thanks for your work.

rajatkulk

5 days ago

Thank you!

Lot's of things planned while aiming to keep the lightweight and opionionated philosophy!

winter_blue

5 days ago

This is amazing, and truly impressive.

What's the best place to submit issues, feature requests, etc?

Something I use on Obsidian is my own CSS as a theme (to override default editor styling). I see themes is a feature of Octarine. Will users be allowed to set their own CSS as a "custom theme"?

rajatkulk

5 days ago

Either:

1. Discord (https://octarine.app/discord)

2. Github (http://octarine.app/issues)

Currently the app supports 33 themes (3 free, 30 on the pro license). There's an item on the roadmap that would allow you to create your own themes (each theme is a palette of 10-12 variables - border/bg/text/outline)

Hope you like the app :)

Naga293

4 days ago

This looks really nice, love how clean the UI is.

nfbx

5 days ago

this is really really well designed in comparison to apps like obsidian, since the standard design is actually very readable and actually makes you want to write stuff. i think this could replace my current zettler setup in writing papers when you could map hotkeys to most stuff, and it would have a zotero integration in some way. lovely project!

rajatkulk

5 days ago

Thank you! I haven't really used zotero, but I feel you can integrate it using url schemes? I have a PR up that opens up `octarine://` url scheme to allow creating notes/folders (it was built for the webclipper repo).

Currently keymaps aren't modifiable, but there's an item on the roadmap to change hotkeys.

nfbx

5 days ago

I don't have much clue about integration of such features as well unfortunately. Another thing I just realized though is, when you press CTRL+Z it will always open the "Recently Viewed" tab, I think that hotkey combination gotta be changed :D

rajatkulk

5 days ago

Are you by any chance on a german keyboard? or a different keyboard layout?

I've had a report before where they keyboard layout messes up, for Z & Y. `Cmd + Y` is Recently viewed while `Z` does undo

nfbx

4 days ago

I'm on a german keyboard layout, yeah.

rajatkulk

4 days ago

Figured! I'll spend time soon to have the keyboard layouts not dictate hotkeys or override them.

nashashmi

3 days ago

Does it have multi cursor support? CTRL-shift D highlight for all occurrences of a selected text? That is the only reason I spin up VScode for.

rajatkulk

2 days ago

Not at the moment, but it’s something I use in VSCode, so it’s on the backlog to be brought, just low on the priority list.

Since find/replace works fine for the current use case (even if not optimal)

nashashmi

2 days ago

When that is in while keeping it lightweight, I will be a customer. Multi cursor is a an incredibly versatile find and replace. It can remove newlines at specific points. It can skip a few characters of text. It can go up and down a certain number of lines before manipulating text.

rajatkulk

2 days ago

Got it. I'll take a look, but there's no timeline guarantees.

The use case is far too niche to move engineering efforts to immediately, so it'll be prioritised when either:

- the ask quantity increases.

- when an adjacent part of the code is being improved/fixed and this could be tacked upon in the same release.

Thanks for the suggestion!

PixelForg

5 days ago

Looks awesome! What's the tech stack btw?

rajatkulk

5 days ago

Tauri - Bundler

React, Typescript, Tailwind, Tiptap - Frontend

File level operations, search - rust