I wrote a similar tool to this many years ago that used JATS as an internal document model, using contentEditable, and I can relate to the pain you refer to. Getting the semantics right in cases where you split or join text that has varying types of nested context was hard.
I like what you did here in terms of the cursor that points one way or the other: it tells you if you're in "normal" mode, or for example, in a bold region. I don't think I've seen that before so, if you made it up, that itself is a cool invention.
Not bad! But it got slow after I pasted the text of a random blog post 20 times or so. I don't think this will work for writing a book. But for short to medium length notes, it will do fine.
We should chat (check bio)! For almost a decade now I’ve been working on a writing tool that might benefit from it. I build occasional forks with procgen on top it. That being said better bidi handling is something I’m most interested in.
Enso.sonnet.io - what I’m talking about.
(On untested.sonnet.io you’ll find notes about the experiments / toys related)
Ok the custom rich text latex editor is really cool. But I'm on a tablet and stuff like selecting text is a bit awkward (the up down auto scroll is not exactly the same as the native one and isn't as precise as the native one).
Cool idea! I approve of the privacy oriented design. But it looks like you didn’t actually test this on iOS as automatic text correction is completely broken.
Also your website appears to have been written and generated entirely with an LLM. That doesn’t inspire trust.
There’s no better way to get a lot of testers than to have a Show HN.
I’ll confirm - there are cursor bugs on iOS. Both on newlines and autocorrect.
I’m personally more forgiving of an LLM “helped” site, if it looks like there was a human in the loop for the process. An LLM has more context about the design goals and architecture than the reader, so if it’s an informative page, I’m not personally bothered.
A human is needed to show how app’s technical features are relevant to a particular audience with a shared social context. As the LLM is not (and should not ever be) a participant in that social environment, any marketing it generates will almost certainly land as tone deaf or presumptuous.
Definitely not comfortable with it creating a server-side identity for me on first open without any sort of confirmation prompt. Closed immediately because I can't imagine I'd want anything that'd be used for before I've even gotten to try anything.
I like what you did here in terms of the cursor that points one way or the other: it tells you if you're in "normal" mode, or for example, in a bold region. I don't think I've seen that before so, if you made it up, that itself is a cool invention.
Enso.sonnet.io - what I’m talking about.
(On untested.sonnet.io you’ll find notes about the experiments / toys related)
But still this is an awesome project!
Also your website appears to have been written and generated entirely with an LLM. That doesn’t inspire trust.
I’ll confirm - there are cursor bugs on iOS. Both on newlines and autocorrect.
I’m personally more forgiving of an LLM “helped” site, if it looks like there was a human in the loop for the process. An LLM has more context about the design goals and architecture than the reader, so if it’s an informative page, I’m not personally bothered.
But I’m probably in the minority.
If you think successful campaigns these days are always entirely done by humans, then I’m afraid you’re mistaken.