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In progress. Beginnings of a possible shared wiki and discussion system for Lion Kimbro's Internet Office Hours community.
Techmeet.love started out as a private single-person note-taking system. It is now a space for the long-form asynchronous communications of a small community, and a place to experiment with and evolve new ideas for such collaborative communications.
Some features:
Some videos to help visualize these bullets (albeit with outdated UI):
Install LÖVE. It's just a 5MB download, open-source and extremely well-behaved.
There's currently a few moving parts to set up:
Clone this repo.
git clone https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/techmeet.love techmeet
Decide where to store data for the app. Say it's $DATADIR
.
Clone the techmeet-data repo into $DATADIR
.
git clone https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/techmeet-data $DATADIR
Replace $DATADIR
for yourself.
Initialize an example layout for the 2D surface. On a POSIX system, the commands would be:
cd $DATADIR
cp config.example config
Again, adjust $DATADIR
for yourself.
This is an optional step. The surface layout feels like something private to each individual and doesn't really belong in this repo. This is just a convenience to get you started.
Run the app while specifying $DATADIR
:
love techmeet $DATADIR
You'll only need to do this the first time. After that, running without
args will remember $DATADIR
.
Your OS will likely have ways to run this command based on a global shortcut, should you so desire.
Start exploring! Key shortcuts:
ctrl+enter
will open up the command palette and give you more of a
sense of your optionsctrl+e
makes the highlighted note editable. When you're done just hit
ctrl+e
again to freeze its contents against accidental editing. At
most one note can be editable at any moment.ctrl+h
when hovering over a drawing will show you the options
available to you. Most operations involve holding down the mouse and
making a stroke. You can also start a stroke and press and hold h
without releasing to see options available to you mid-stroke.While editing text:
ctrl+f
to find patterns within a filectrl+c
to copy, ctrl+x
to cut, ctrl+v
to pastectrl+z
to undo, ctrl+y
to redoctrl+=
to zoom in, ctrl+-
to zoom out, ctrl+0
to reset zoomalt+right
/alt+left
to jump to the next/previous word, respectivelyshift
+ movement to select text, ctrl+a
to select allctrl+w
to modify the sourcesFor shortcuts while editing drawings, consult the online help. Either:
ctrl+h
, orh
to see your
options at any point during a stroke.techmeet.love has been exclusively tested so far with a US keyboard layout. If you use a different layout, please let me know if things worked, or if you found anything amiss: http://akkartik.name/contact
No support yet for Unicode graphemes spanning multiple codepoints.
No support yet for right-to-left languages.
Searching is slow. There's no index yet. Searching happens in the same thread as UI updates, so UI may go unresponsive with really large notes. I haven't observed this in practice.
The text cursor will always stay on the screen. This can have some strange implications:
So far this app isn't really designed for drawing-heavy files. For now I'm targeting mostly-text files with a few drawings mixed in.
No clipping yet for drawings. In particular, circles/squares/rectangles and point labels can overflow a drawing.
If you ever see a crash when clicking on the mouse, it might be because a mouse press and release need to happen in separate frames. Try pressing and releasing more slowly and let me know if that helps or not. This is klunky, sorry.
Touchpads can drag the mouse pointer using a light touch or a heavy click. On Linux, drags using the light touch get interrupted when a key is pressed. You'll have to press down to drag.
Can't scroll while selecting text with mouse.
No scrollbars yet. That stuff is hard.
This repo is a fork of lines.love, an editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings. Its immediate upstream is pensieve.love, a private note-taking app for a single individual. Updates to it can be downloaded from:
Further forks are encouraged. If you show me your fork, I'll link to it here.
Most appreciated. Messages, PRs, patches, forks, it's all good.
In particular, techmeet.love has been exclusively tested so far with a US keyboard layout. If you use a different layout, please let me know if things worked, or if you found anything amiss.