Ledge.sh
Dev tools
runnable markdown notebook
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How HN took it
18 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score +0.34.
Idea: 12 for, 4 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good fit for org-babel users who want markdown and mobile access
From 2 comments
As an Emacs user for over a decade I think this is brilliant, it solves my biggest gripes with org-babel which prevent me from using it in a team setting. Ledge is a lot like…
theCodeStig on HNI think it's mainly an issue of preference. Markdown is common these days and already exists in READMEs etc. I know it so I tend to prefer it. I also require the ability to…
dancablam on HN
Mobile support is a useful differentiator
From 1 comment
This is really cool, and I love the mobile support too! I’ll definitely be giving this a spin
classictraffic on HN
Better GUI performance than Atuin Desktop
From 1 comment
Woooow! I love the idea of having documentation that I can just run directly as I'm reading through it, that also has a nice GUI to it. There's a similar product called Atuin…
KetoManx64 on HN
Objections
Keeping runbooks and executable docs up to date is hard
From 1 comment
(hi! I worked a lot on atuin desktop) we saw a bunch of issues with desktop, in no particular order 1. authoring runbooks is difficult, most people barely document their work let…
ellieh on HN
Executable markdown code blocks are an anti-pattern for serious project work
From 1 comment
> I built Ledge because I spend much of my day copy/pasting commands from my notes into the terminal. I was inspired by how much cmux helped me organize my terminals - but there…
Piraty on HN
Could be an Obsidian plugin or is similar to Jupyter
From 3 comments
Obsidian can already do this
NamlchakKhandro on HNI don't store commands in my notes so I'm not the target market but could this not simply be an Obsidian plugin?
haaz on HNOh great, another Jupyter-esque project...
usrbinbash on HN
Linux app was laggy for one commenter
From 1 comment
This is cool. I'll probably use this to store my commonly used prompts so I don't have to retype them all the time. For whatever reason I like being able to see all of their…
nullbio on HN
Requests
Add org-babel interop
From 2 comments
add org-babel interop
mcptokensaver on HNadd org-babel interop
coursenumpls on HN
Notebook mode with run-all-above or below execution
From 1 comment
Interesting. This seems like a good alternative to Jupyter Notebooks. I get annoyed when working with them using agents. They avoid editing the file directly because there is too…
theis_once on HN
Non-linear flows, conditionals and dependencies between blocks
From 1 comment
Nice, I'll have to give this a try. I like the concept, I know there have been some other things in the general area but often tied a bit more to data analysis. I am a big fan of…
IanCal on HN
Shell completion and history integration in the editor
From 1 comment
cool idea, do you have any plans to integrate command generation with the shell completion / aliases / functions? Say I have tons of muscle memory on using ctrl-r fzf to get…
tetraodonpuffer on HN
Questions
How does this compare to Org-mode
From 1 comment
How does this compete to something like Org-mode?
rvdca on HN
Could this be an Obsidian plugin
From 1 comment
Can this be a plugin for Obsidian?
nashashmi on HN
Alternatives named
Atuin Desktop
From 3 comments
I went to look at Atuin Desktop to see what the crossover was with this product, and it's fascinating to see that the repo was archived the day this was posted here!…
drayfield on HNI feel like there has been a few takes on this (atuin desktop comes to mind[0] but apparently it's not a going concern anymore?) why hasn't it caught on? 0:…
edude03 on HNWoooow! I love the idea of having documentation that I can just run directly as I'm reading through it, that also has a nice GUI to it. There's a similar product called Atuin…
KetoManx64 on HN
Org-babel
From 1 comment
As an Emacs user for over a decade I think this is brilliant, it solves my biggest gripes with org-babel which prevent me from using it in a team setting. Ledge is a lot like…
theCodeStig on HN
Jupyter
From 2 comments
Years ago I just used Jupyter notebooks with a bash (or many others) backend to have a similar thing.
wakaru44 on HNso a jupiter notebook?
rarisma on HN
Runme
From 1 comment
I was recently researching apps like this for the usecase of writing devops/tech-support "playbooks", and also (related) "runnable readmes". Among many approaches and attempts I…
akavel on HN
xc
From 1 comment
This is pretty cool. I've been interested in runnable code in markdown for a long time. It's a kind of "literate programming¹" which I've always thought was one of Knuth's best…
20after4 on HN