sowhat VS hyperpaper-planner

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

I'm a big fan of my rm2, too -- and am writing to respond to this:

> "I’d also love a more formal diary / daily entry system. Kind of like Obsidian’s daily notes. Some kind of date-based notebook inside the Remarkable would be rad (even if it doesn’t sync with your actual calendar!). A daily journaling / diary / planning format would be great. (Yes, right now you can select a day-planner template, but you can’t then see them in a calendar view - the date isn’t a foundational element of the note)."

Take a look at https://hyperpaper.me

> https://hyperpaper.me/ Configurable, highly linked PDF planner with a very responsive person behind it (I figure he must be around here somewhere :))

Hey, that's me :D

Thanks for the shout-out Ethan, I'm happy to answer any questions people have about hyperpaper

Building your own templates is pretty fun, but look out because it can turn into a real rabbit hole if you get into it (in my case, a full side-project: https://hyperpaper.me)

Obligatory plug: I make a customizable planner that might work for you: https://hyperpaper.me/ There are demo files available so you can try out the pdf planner approach and see if it fits what you're looking for

Hi, I make https://hyperpaper.me/ and it's pretty customizable! For your points specifically:

use a pdf that supports extra pages per day (I make this one which lets you add 1-2 extra pages for every day)

I've done a lot of work with pdf linking for hyperpaper and link handling can be a bit finicky across e-Ink devices (not just for the rM2). In Canva do you specify the name/path for these internal links? Sometimes non-ascii characters in there aren't supported

I'm not seeing any, but there is also a paid option for creating notebooks that have a similar set of features and with more customizability: https://hyperpaper.me/. It looks like it might be more usable for left-handed people, as in the demo PDF.

pdf files that have links "baked in" before they are uploaded to the rM2 will work, however. Most software (eg Canva, InDesign, etc) for creating pdf files will support adding links in some way. Or you can use off-the-shelf tools for creating linked pdfs (https://hyperpaper.me/ is my project that does this specifically for devices like the rM2)