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The \"Micro\" came from my original plan for it, which was to have a super small python script generate static notepad pages for you to…",{"value":88,"source":89,"evidence":90},"TypeScript","commenter",[91],{"id":92,"by":11,"text":93},"17581706","Nope. The client is on its own. The only connection to node is in preload.ts, but that's a one-way relationship. Have a read of…","open_source","launched","solo",{"praise":98,"objections":112,"requests":150,"questions":188,"alternatives":203},[99,108],{"value":100,"source":89,"evidence":101},"Open source and a promising concept",[102,103,107],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"17582099","mholt","Cool! I like this. A couple suggestions: - Instead of asking \"Are you sure\" to delete an element, just go ahead and delete it, but make it undoable. 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Link to other Sections\u002FNotes.…",{"value":171,"source":89,"evidence":172},"Keyboard shortcuts and quick text insertion",[173,177],{"id":174,"by":175,"text":176},"17581223","urlwolf","This Thing is creat. cons I find: - Hmm, no shortcuts? or keyboard support in general. Press arrow down to highlight a search result fails - bounding box for a note not needed…",{"id":178,"by":179,"text":180},"17583456","juancampa","It's funny that the main thing you do in a note-taking program is create notes but there's no keyboard shortcut for it. Otherwise, cool concept, will keep an eye on it",{"value":182,"source":89,"evidence":183},"Connecting or linking notes",[184,187],{"id":185,"by":175,"text":186},"17581229","Also linking notes to make them relate to each other would be great. 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