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Love this. This is exactly what I need. I have been using a WhatsApp group with just me, for this purpose, until now.

Feature requests: - arch package

- would really like the results of the math to be in buffer.txt and in Ctrl+a and copy.

- changing font and color theme(I like the Nord one right now though!) Please keep it minimally colored as it is now so that changing color is just a simple matter of configuring a handful of colors as opposed to custom css. That would make it too complicated.

- support for images and media in markdown blocks would be nice to whatever extent possible. I would love it if you could copy the way vscode markdown works. Ctrl+v an image in the editor and it inserts the markdown for it and saves the image to a file. Markdown preview would be nice but I understand if you think that's out of scope.

- timestamp for blocks. especially would be nice if you could store createdAt updatedAt in the line with the infinity symbols in buffer.txt to make it easily extractable using grep and cut.

- saw that you mentioned downthread that you're working on reloading the file so that we can back it up with git or whatever. Would love that!

- is mobile possible? Through Cordova or something

Thanks for making this!

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> would really like the results of the math to be in buffer.txt and in Ctrl+a and copy.

Adding the results to lines that are copied from Math blocks should be doable, and I like that idea! I agree that it would also be nice with the results in buffer.txt, but because of implementation details it's harder to implement I think.

> changing font and color theme

At the moment, I'm leaning towards keeping the number of configurable settings down and not add have font color theme settings.

> timestamp for blocks. especially would be nice if you could store createdAt updatedAt in the line with the infinity symbols in buffer.txt to make it easily extractable using grep and cut.

yes, this is on the TODO

> saw that you mentioned downthread that you're working on reloading the file so that we can back it up with git or whatever. Would love that!

Yes, this too :)

> is mobile possible? Through Cordova or something

Probably not :/

Changing the font is accessibility, not customization. I downloaded the app, opened it up, and the font was too small for it to be practical for me to use. I know it doesn't take much to fix, because I did a Ctrl-Shift-I, changed the font from 12px to 18px, and problem solved. It's not something I'm going to do over and over.

cmd + (or whatever the equivalent is for your platform) seems to permanently increase the font size.

Tried it, but it didn't work for me.

Yeah, it's not really usable without being able to configure a reasonable font.

For now, go to devtools and save a chrome snippet with document.querySelector(.cm-scroller).style.fontFamily = "whatever"; hit save.

Then everytime you open, Ctrl+shift+i, Ctrl+o, enter, Ctrl+enter incantation will run it.

Emacs style, if I may ;)

> At the moment, I'm leaning towards keeping the number of configurable settings down and not add have font color theme settings.

Alright, if you ever lean the other way a tad bit, please allow configuration of fonts, I can try to contribute that feature next week. I don't mind fixed colors nearly as much.

>> is mobile possible? Through Cordova or something

> Probably not :/

Understandable. Check my comment (sibling to my parent comment) for a suggestion for the PWA you mentioned though!

Adding to it:

Saw you mentioned below that you were planning to add a pwa + local storage version. In that case you can disregard my mobile request, and replace it with a download button on mobile so we can sync it to our desktop through git or drive or something.

Font and color could be implemented by letting us add some CSS to the html page (as it is made using Electron).

This would enable using fancy CSS for some notes.