johneo-f620/foco

Developer notebook for improving focus

Developer Notebook

An attempt to scratch my own itch. I need one place to focus on the goal of a software development task at hand. I need more structure than a text file but less features (i.e., distractions) than the "second brain" tools.

Goals

• Optimize for information capture
  • Lowest friction to entering rows as possible
• Always visible: the problem statement
• Focus, concentrate, eliminate distractions
• Intentionally limit features to avoid having to make distracting decisions
• Simple, simple, simple implementation (already failed? lol)

Steps

• Restructure the model and initModel to group by #heading
• Change the rendering to group by #heading
• Implement indentation
• Header
• LARGE: Update/delete (UX undefined)
• Save to disk
• Commands (e.g. /goto, /find, etc.)
• Footer (stats? current line?)
• Metadata?

TODOs

• tab or shift+tab in the entry field to indent/dedent
• Display header with title
• Up/down arrows for selecting for edit or delete?
  • I might accidentally lose changes while just trying to move the cursor?
• BUG: No notes display on open (cut off by extra \n's)
• REFACTOR: Model data structure -- map with key of tags/headers, with line numbers (indicated by slice index?) and indents
  • Question: How do I indent when a row is under multiple headings?
    • Only allow one tag per row??
• Clear the text entry after enter
• BUG: Initial text entry does not show, but it does from the second entry
• BUG: Empty tag hash shows (off by 1 error from the string split?)
• Show indentation in the text entry
• Remember the previous row's heading so that the next ones can go under the same