sowhat VS alx-folder-note

Hello HN,

The demo here shows the companion editor [0] for the sowhat language [1].

The purpose of the editor is two things:

- Makes building and organizing a collection of writing easier. It does this by extracting different elements such as tags and folders from a collection of writing then presenting those elements via in-context autocomplete.

- Makes the collection of writing more useful by including notation elements such as events, beans [2] and formulas to support computing within the writing itself.

A while back I released sowhat, the language supporting Tap [3]. Sowhat and the companion editor are, together, a cornerstone of Tap. Tap is a system for collecting writing and other digital matter.

The editor here can be used in conjunction with sowhat to build your own tools. Or, it can provide a foundation to augment and enhance Tap.

My goal is to open source as much of Tap as possible because:

- It's fun to build with other people

- It should be as easy as possible for someone to customize their Tap experience. There's no way to accommodate all the UXs one might want within Tap. These tools are intended to enable a developer to create their own experiences.

- For those that use Tap but the then leave, a person's exported notes can maintain their original organization and meaning.

- Opens a path for others to provide feedback and enhancements to the open source tools and Tap itself.

0. https://github.com/tatatap-com/sowhat-editor, demo: https://tatatap-com.github.io/sowhat-editor/

1. https://github.com/tatatap-com/sowhat

2. https://github.com/tatatap-com/sowhat#beans

3. https://www.tatatap.com

I hear you. What guarantees about how it works do you have in mind?

You may be interested in just the parsing component of /tap, which is open source https://github.com/tatatap-com/sowhat

Seems to do about the same thing.

AidenLx's Folder Note or if you use Obsidian File Tree Alternative you can activate it in the settings

Maybe try Folder Notes Plugin

Naturally Obsidian has a plugin for this[1].

This is what I like about obsidian. Ultimately nobody has a consistent set of capabilities they want because the whole space is pretty underdefined (exactly as the article is saying). But we still want something. So Obsidian is a kind of bring-your-own collection of features, and the mobile app works good enough too. It’s kinda like vim or emacs where people customize it however they want.

I reckon as the space evolves more clarity will appear and more opinionated schemes will become popular.

[1] https://github.com/aidenlx/alx-folder-note

I use the Waypoint plugin for exactly this in combination with this folder note plugin.

Not sure does it help you but there is the note folder plug-in which might help you with organizing your atomic notes. For example, you may create folder with somehow related atomic notes and make summary in the note folder with links to your notes.

Folder note plugin is not mantained. Please use aidenlxalx-folder-note and aidenlxfolder-note-core

I like using folder notes for certain things. I think the original folder note plugin is not maintained. The new and better version is AidenLx's Folder Note. To make it work properly you also need to install Folder Note Core.