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by pdepip • 6 years ago

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jasonshen• 6 years ago

This is neat! Can you tell me how you got around to building this and what it's most useful for? I'm not a programmer but I've been thinking a lot about migrating out of Evernote to Roam or Notion and this made me think of that.

pdepip4• 6 years ago

Thanks! Glad you think so. I've found it's most useful for workflow documentation and code snippets.

The main reason I built mmap is I started a new job a few months ago which required learning a ton of new workflows that leveraged a bunch of unfamiliar technologies. Documentation for these was scattered over github, confluence, google groups, etc. which made it both time consuming and difficult to find what I was looking for.

I wanted to be able to save documentation and code snippets in my own words so I could quickly find it without switching windows. It's lead to a noticeable jump in my productivity so far.

IOT_Apprentice• 6 years ago

As this runs on macos, any plans to make it universal binary for both macos and iOS/iPadOS?

pdepip4• 6 years ago

We are planning on releasing for both windows and linux soon. Due to the app being focused on accessibility for developer workflows, mobile applications are a little further out on the product roadmap but will be coming eventually!

geoelectric• 6 years ago

Any plans for dark mode? It's a dealbreaker not having it on Mac post-Mojave IMO.

pdepip4• 6 years ago

Yes 100%, you're not the first person to ask. It might be sacrilegious to admit but I never use dark mode so it slipped to back of mind.

raghavkhanna• 6 years ago

I love how focused it is! Would this work on linux in case I build it from source? Just tried it out on my mac and seems to be a little buggy at the moment. The editor doesn't seem to reliably respond to keystrokes and the search window went blank a couple of times. I guess it needs some polish, but I like the UI a lot.

pdepip4• 6 years ago

Thanks that really means a lot, the feedback is very much appreciated!

Building from source should work on linux. I'm still ironing out a lot of the kinks, the search window going blank is at the top of my list and I am also working on editor reliability.

Hope you can get the full value out of this once I've made it more reliable!

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