Comment by jonatanheyman
2 years ago
> I couldn't find the shortcut to change the language until I hovered over the status bar element for it. It should have a menu item with the keyboard shortcut on it.
Noted. Will fix!
> Doesn't respect the system light/dark mode, it should by default (but perhaps with an app specific override as some people like that)
The light/dark toggle has three states. Light/Dark/Whatever the system is set to (default). If it's set to the third mode, it should respect the system mode. Otherwise it's a bug!
> The green branding is ok, but it's quite a strong personality for an app to have. Do you want the app to have a strong personality?
I do like the design (though I'm sure it could be improved ofcourse).
> - 427MB is huge
Yes, unfortunately that comes with Electron.
> Would be great to have a help reference in the app, or at least a docs page on the website that the help menu links to.
Yeah, goo point, will fix!
> Would be great to be able to change the font.
Maybe :)
> Where is the data saved?
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). It's saved as soon as you edit with a small debounce.
The data location is currently not configurable, and Heynote currently doesn't support reloading changes from the disk (except on startup), so at the moment it wouldn't work well to synchronize through a file syncing service if you were running Heynote on multiple machines. This is something I'd like to fix though.
> The light/dark toggle has three states. Light/Dark/Whatever the system is set to (default). If it's set to the third mode, it should respect the system mode. Otherwise it's a bug!
Ah ha! That's it. I must have toggled this to forced-light inadvertently when testing. I think it could be clearer.
Thanks for the explanation of the persistence. This sounds absolutely fine for where the app is at right now, but would be great to explain it (in less detail perhaps?) somewhere. In the future, being able to set a custom path for it might be a quick way to enable hacky syncing. I realise symlinks could probably achieve this, but I think that's less discoverable.
Thanks for the reply and best of luck with the app!
Sync between devices (windows <> mac <> iphone) is the only thing more I'd want out of this. Great work!