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I created this small app for you, if you like to write
- renownedmedia 14y agoIt doesn't go Ka Ching when I hit enter...
- keithpeter 14y agohttp://freesound.org/people/keithpeter/sounds/123344/ http://freesound.org/people/keithpeter/sounds/123344/ Some end of line bell sounds here. I liked the application - totally minimal! I'm out of date on Javascript, local storage data I assume ends up in the browser cache?
- grimgrin 14y agoIt's HTML5's "localStorage", a local database that is all key/value. localStorage.setItem("theKeyToSaveItAs", "theValue"); OP is saving via localStorage every 2 seconds: setInterval(function() { localStorage.setItem("text", textarea.value); }, 2000);
- keithpeter 14y agoThanks for the code example. I've tracked down where Firefox puts this, and I've realised that the original piece of work will carry on working when saved locally. Quite interesting...
- 19_ploT 14y agoNow it does.
- roh26it 14y agoSuperb for writing, but what do I do once I'm done? Really like the sound as I type though my mechanical keyboard makes them for me already! :)
- 19_ploT 14y agoYou can close it and go to bed. If you come back in the morning, your poem/story will be loaded for you.
- Techasura 14y agoTruly nice. Simple and beautiful. can i use it on my website?
- diggan 14y agoWhy not? <iframe src="http://solitarydesigns.net/write/"></iframe> Difficult to read the data with that solution though, if it had one JS API, it would become more useful...
- yuchi 14y agoLocalStorage FTW
- homunculus 14y agoDo I need to use the same browser or does it ID my computer some other way?
- 19_ploT 14y agoSame browser for now.
- nakkiel 14y agoTwo things, besides the limited usefulness of it: sound on keypress, really? save on keypress, really?
- Felix21 14y agoQuite awesome I would like to be able to Write different notes tho. Apart from that, pretty neat concept. And the design is beautiful.
- djbender 14y agoI'm impressed by the simplicity of the Javascript. Well done. :)
- bretthardin 14y agoAwesome. Two requests: 1. No sound. It's distracting. 2. Support of markdown?
- irmbrady 14y agoI actually had fun with this. Any chance of adding word wrapping? It lost its charm once I had to scroll to see my longer sentences.
- Falling3 14y agoJust to echo some of the ideas mentioned here... Enjoyed the keypress noise. Expected word wrap and "ka-ching" sound. Love the minimal interface. Markdown support would be really cool.
- 19_ploT 14y agoWord wrap done. Finding a cool ka-ching sound now.
- keithpeter 14y agohttps://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/cr.mp3 https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/cr.mp3 A real carriage return https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/ring.mp3 https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/ring.mp3 The little bell is harder because you tend to type a couple of characters during its decay Freesound has plenty of typewriter samples.
- mahesh_rm 14y agoThis [for newline] keeps up with the app aurea and it's short enough to solve decay problems: http://www.freesound.org/people/orginaljun/sounds/153063/ http://www.freesound.org/people/orginaljun/sounds/153063/
- keithpeter 14y agoYes, bit lower and less 'ringy' than the manual typewriters I used for years but fits in with the clicks used for the characters. Nice find
- mosselman 14y agoNice. Would be cool to be able to store things in a more secure feeling way than local storage. Also, the already made comments about ka-ching and word wrap.
- andyobryan 14y agoBeautiful! Thanks for sharing: Wordwrap would be a nice addition, as others have noted.
- dignati 14y agoThe sound is so satisfying that I spend 5 minutes writing a bunch of senseless stuff just to hear it.
- JMiao 14y agoplease ignore the folks asking for a mute button. they can mute if they want to.
- adkatrit 14y ago...not if you prefer to listen to music on the same device. Is there a mute per tab browser plugin somewhere?
- Falling3 14y agoThere is on chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mutetab/nmkbaaijgpppbokgnhhoakihofedkgcc?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mutetab/nmkbaaijgp...
- steve918 14y agoAll it does is make sounds if you type. If you need a mute button just use any other text editor that doesn't make sounds.
- channi 14y agoSomeone please make me understand why this end up on first page on HN. I saw similar apps many times earlier here. What's the big deal? Why not regular editor in some 'guru' distraction free mode? For instance Sublime Text can do that (including autosave and quick startup).
- keithpeter 14y agoI personally found this interesting because the app looks fun, it makes sounds, and it demonstrates some aspects of modern JavaScript that I have got out of date on. I could put the app up on a projector in class and students would find it amusing. Yes, I shall continue to use Gedit for writing Web page text, which I can then run through markdown.
- DanBC 14y agoIt's a weekend, and different things get to the front page on weekends. I like to think that most "Show HN" posts make it to the front page, but I realise that's probably not true.
- antidoh 14y agoEveryone's big deal is different. "I made this" is always welcome here.
- nrbafna 14y agoPlease add support for Tab key.
- AskHugo 14y agoI don't know if I'm just imagining it, but typing feels a little laggy. Could it be because it's saving to local storage after every keyup? I made it save every 2 seconds with setInterval() and it feels a little smoother.
- 19_ploT 14y agoThanks for the suggestion, it works good now.
- cientifico 14y agoReally like it. Love the detail of saving in localstorage. Thinks that, from my point of view, can create an even better experience. * 1.5 space between paragraphs. * Backspace sound. * New line sound. * Space sound. * 80 character wide. * Slightly different sound per key (or row of keys). * Easy to remember domain. Then things that I am not so sure, but as long as don't change the interface, could be cool. * Ctrl-C copy all the text without the need of selecting text. (Probably require flash). * Ctrl-Shift-C the same but copy the result of markdown the current text (so html is actually copied). * Selecting text automatically copy the selection to the clipboard. Things that I will like to play with but don't sure if they are usefull. * Page simulation. 80 char + margin in white, with proper paper texture, and back background. * Go for fullscreen on load (if possible), and fallback to show a small, only onmousemove fullscreen icon. On any case. Really. I really like it. Love to be able to have a webdav (basic auth) interface and could install on my own server. So i can add files just by changing the url, and access that files later through ssh.
- guru_shastry 14y agoLove your ideas!
- 9k9 14y agoI still get distracted by other tabs, what I really want is something which takes over my computer and shuts down my internet.
- bjoe_lewis 14y agoIntuitive. Simple. fast. Would like to have such a native text editor.
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- polymathist 14y agoThe sound is lagging behind my typing by at least a second. As a result, I hear nothing and then bursts of several instances of the sound playing at once, which sounds awful. As others have pointed out, the lag might be because you're invoking local storage after every keyup event. I see the merit in that idea, but as AskHugo suggested, it runs a lot smoother if you save every 2 seconds. I don't think anyone would complain about losing a maximum of the past 2 seconds of their work. Sound effects are always going to be a polarizing feature (some like it, some hate it), and the comments on this post prove that. You should provide an easy way to turn sound effects off. That aside, great job with this. I am a big fan of beauty through simplicity.
- keithpeter 14y agoGnome Ubuntu Remix with Firefox, and no sound anyway. Same with Opera. Epiphany browser (the 'official' Gnome web browser) does play the sound. This is probably a Linux thing, not your app. Where are you going with this? Just plain and simple for actual 'stream of consciousness' writing or the full skeuomorphic invocation of the manual typewriter, like http://www.masswerk.at/google60/ http://www.masswerk.at/google60/ did for the card punch? Either is fine by me!
- josscrowcroft 14y agoBeautiful. Will you release the source? Would love to have this locally on my mac.
- johngunderman 14y agoThis is all client-side. You can just save the page if you want it locally.
- josscrowcroft 14y agoSweet, thanks!
- bjoe_lewis 14y agoctrl+s
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- klepra 14y agoNice! It would be cool if you could login/send it to your gmail inbox or something. Than later use it. I would love to write emails in such editor!
- guru_shastry 14y agoA word & character count somewhere in the margins would be great. Absolutely love it.
- keithpeter 14y agoIf the original author is going down that road, how about 'hiding' the counts and then a mouse hover brings them up? Minimal working area but accoutrements a mouse gesture away.
- stblack 14y agoOther than display what I type, I couldn't reckon anything else this can do. Reading the comments I see I missed some things but that's a pretty clear failure of UI design. So I went back. Still can't see any features other than display what I type. So I try again, this time on Chrome. Now I hear very annoying audio as I type, and no hint of any other features. How the hell does this POC make it to the front page of Hacker News?
- cfj 14y agoThe carriage return sound isn't preloaded. You misspelled the preload attribute as preloaf.
- dsego 14y agoit's really fun :) hey, here's an idea, make a sublime plugin that makes the clickety-click sounds!