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tsydenzhapon Chatcasting, an Alternative to Podcasting

I actually had that idea not long ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307573

Emails take alot longer to send & receive (like 5 to 10 seconds), & they don't automatically show new emails at the bottom (you have to click on the yellow bottomright bar that pops up in Gmail).

tsydenzhapon Show HN: App design that combines Reddit and Gmail for private treelike convos

Thanks.

tsydenzhapon I have an idea that could be worth billions, & I'm giving it away for free

You have chats like in WhatsApp, then you share these chats like Youtube videos. People then read & comment on these chats.

tsydenzhapon I have an idea that could be worth billions, & I'm giving it away for free

You're right. I got this from AI.

Based on research, a significant majority of podcast listeners—up to 94%—multitask while tuning in, with about 59% doing so regularly. Podcasts are often chosen because they allow listeners to consume content while their hands and body are occupied with other tasks.

But even 6% to 41% of the market is still alot.

tsydenzhapon I have an idea that could be worth billions, & I'm giving it away for free

No. You have chats like in Whatsapp, then you share these chats like Youtube videos. People then read & comment on these chats.

tsydenzhapon I used simple rules to make DFAs that kinda match accepted physics models

Yeah, that was mystical mumbojumbo. Ignore that. I was going through a phase after writing a poem.

tsydenzhapon I used simple rules to make DFAs that kinda match accepted physics models

Sorry. You can read it on mobile if you pinch the screen.

tsydenzhapon I used simple rules to make DFAs that kinda match accepted physics models

It does match. & that it can match is what matters. It shows how the salient aspects of our universe or models of physics might arise from simple rules.

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

Yeah. Stuff like Obsidian. I think they focus too much on building knowledge bases. & that Microsoft Word focuses too little. This app, you just take whatever notes you need to get things done.

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

We think similarly. I saw your other app. https://www.ussherpress.com/cardbuddy/ It's like a better version of my first offline web app. https://zeminary.com/matrix/app.html

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

I thought of that, but then I realized you'd run out of space very quickly. Stacking links to the notes in the second sidebar is better. It's alot easier to browse & then jump between.

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

Thanks. Spread the good word.

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

I browsed that website for a few days about a year or two before writing this app a year ago. This app is kind of an inversion where the focus is not on reading but on writing.

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

(I deleted what I wrote in that link. Here it is.) The leftmost editor is used to write the section (or chapter), & the rest are used to take notes for that section, or to keep old versions of that section as reference, or to work out different ways of writing a subsection, etc. (& this seems hubristic, but I think this app might actually be a watershed moment in UI & UX & software development history. There's nothing out there that lets you juggle contexts nearly as seamlessly. Microsoft Word & Obsidian have alot of lines of code & hours behind them, but in terms of how much they empower me to write & think, they're far inferior to this app. & if you look at the html, you'll see it's only 750 lines of code, of which only 670 lines are actually used. So it's also extremely maintainable & forkable.)

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite Horizontal Array of Text Editors

I thought about it & decided against it. It'd be buggy, complicated, & undoable. People should just manually search & replace things. There's even a first level search to help people get started.

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

Thanks. & here are some ideas. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43012478 & some more ideas. You can also work out an outline or timeline or table of characters & settings & objects in the editors to the right. You can also get your editors to write their overarching feedback & questions in the editors to the right. I also designed this for screenwriting so you can get more ideas by reading up on how screenwriters do their work. It's clunky to format to standards acceptable to the industry, but the industry standards seem pointless & counterproductive, so it's maybe good to be forced to focus on content over form.

About the second point. In Word, you can easily get feedback for specific paragraphs by just writing around or underneath those paragraphs, or for the whole by just writing in another document & keeping that document open in another window or in the same window. But you can't easily get feedback for specific chapters, & you can't do any of these things while easily keeping chapter-specific notes always in view. This among other reasons is why this app is maybe more powerful than Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Obsidian, etc. It balances notetaking & reflection & writing. Microsoft Word & Google Docs focus too much on writing, & have very little capability in the other 2. Obsidian focuses too much on notetaking, & has very little capability in the other 2. None of them integrate all 3.

About reflection. With Word, the moment you make changes to the document, all the stuff written to the side goes out of sync. So it's best just to write in sequence. So Word has no advantage there.

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

You just type whatever, then the list underneath will filter out anything that doesn't have the search terms either in the title or text. You don't need to ENTER. You shouldn't ENTER.

Search & replace is very important. I'll implement that in the future.

It can be used on desktop as long as you have an internet connection. If you look at the source code you'll see it sources some CDN files. I'm planning on taking it totally offline.

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

I'll make a Github in a few days after I clean up the source code.

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite Horizontal Array of Text Editors

Thanks. Yeah, I especially like how it saves space & makes for a very calm & uncluttered UI.

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

Thanks. One thing I kept thinking while making this was, I don't want to create an MVP, I want to create the simplest & most complete way to learn how to do & then do powerful work.

It only works on Chrome & Edge. I haven't tested it on Firefox, Safari, etc.

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite Horizontal Array of Text Editors

Yeah, it's not meant to be used on mobile. The way it's designed makes it basically desktop only.

Also, the undo only works within editors. It doesn't work across editors. It takes some time getting used to, but I think this way is actually better. I was frequently alternating between taking notes & writing the chapter, & I didn't want to have to undo the work on my chapter in the process of undoing the work on my notes. So I just took out the global undo. It reduced LoC by alot & improved UX.

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43012397

It was an experiment. I realized it was too clunky, but I also realized that it would've worked really well as just a single row. It took alot of thinking to realize that though. I spent a lot of time imagining more complex systems before realizing that a single row worked best. I imagined things like a kanban for writing but with twists, with inspirations from Gingko. https://gingkowriter.com/

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite Horizontal Array of Text Editors

I made it to write one poem, & to learn how to code with HTML & CSS & JS. There's one kinda practical usecase though. You can take notes either freeform or of different types for each paragraph of an essay, where each column is maybe notes of the same type. But you have to constantly resize rows to accommodate changes in paragraph length. It's very clunky. The only reason I haven't deleted it is because my dad likes it. I can't imagine why anyone else would though. It used to have autoresize but it just created wasted space. But without it you have to scroll individual editors.

tsydenzhapon Show HN: Infinite horizontal arrays of text editors

Thanks man. Tell your friends about it if you can. Doesn't seem like it's getting alot of traction on this website.