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Comment by rswail

2 years ago

Cool, been looking for new tools to help collect the mess that is my notes.

Nice and simple, as a tool like this should be.

A few questions after playing for a few minutes:

* Where are the notes stored?

* Can I delete a block easily?

* After creating an additional cursor (great extra feature btw) how do I stop creating them, and/or remove one I've created?

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jonatanheyman  2 years ago

> Where are the notes stored?

The whole buffer is stored in a file called buffer.txt located in the user data directory (varies depending on platform, on Mac it's ~/Library/Application Support/Heynote, on Linux ~/.config/Heynote).

> Can I delete a block easily?

I do that by pressing: C-A Backspace Backspace.

> After creating an additional cursor (great extra feature btw) how do I stop creating them, and/or remove one I've created?

Pressing ESC (or C-G in Emacs mode) should remove all extra cursors.

  • cyberge99  2 years ago

    So I can use grep and pbcopy to interact with this on the CLI. Too cool! Thank you for a great app.

    • jonatanheyman  2 years ago

      The buffer file has a syntax for the block separators, but it's human readable. Here's what it looks like:

        ∞∞∞text
  content of note 1
  ∞∞∞text-a
  note 2
  -a denotes that the block language is in autodetect mode and 
 might change
  ∞∞∞css
  .some-class {

      etc...

rswail  2 years ago

Answered my own question on the additional cursor, Esc takes you back to a single cursor.

Great way to make a list. Start with a number, make your list, then use the additional cursor to add in a checkbox.