phentos/downmark

Creating the note manager of my dreams while learning `tkinter`

Downmark

Thoughts

I'd like to make my own notetaking tool.

I want:

• to use Tkinter
• Markdown
• Wikilinking
• Zettlekasten-ish
• storage to be git-oriented

How

Tkinter

Use ttk.Notebook.

Markdown

Render-edit, like jupyter cells.

Wikilinking

When parsing markdown:

• [foo] renders as a link to a new tab

Navigation

• Entry points¹ are top-level and/or recent frames
• Once in, there's upstream+downstream²
  • upstream: frames that link to the current frame
  • downstream: frames this frame links to

Persistence

Plain-text storage as markdown, in a way that's web-navigable maybe? e.g. [foo] that's a link to a frame in Downmark would be saved as [foo]('bar/foo.md'), a github-compatible link structure.

Nifties

i.e. features i think would be cool

Footnotes

1. search, favorites, tags organization ↩

2. show a "peak" of a tab when hovered ↩

downmark's Issues

notebook tabs should be arranged in a family structure

a bracketed `[word]` should create a new tab

• bind ] event to scan back for [
• if found, create new tab with contained word as title and focus
• in background (thread?), replace wikilink with link to current tab¹

Footnotes

1. #4 ↩

Taskers

• #4
• tabs should be exportable to .md
• git automation
• #5
• #3
• #6

Create structure for fonting

• hyperlink for notebook swaps

URL entry should be supported

What about for the messy and long urls. Are you gonna have a url tidier? Or keep it as plaintext. Are urls gonna have a point to browser handler?

Undo double undoes

When it occurs

Insert 2+ characters. Press ctrl+z. Last two are removed, when only the most recent should be.

Cause/solution

Undo separator is lazily added by key events, need to come up with something more clever (or to just look one up, surely exists).