{"id":2577,"date":"2020-07-27T22:17:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T02:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:17:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T02:17:58","slug":"thoughts-on-trovedex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2577","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Trovedex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been about two months sinced I launched and starting using Trovedex, and so I&#8217;ve got some thoughts on some improvements I&#8217;d like to make at some point. As of this writing, the site only has 7 registered users. One of them is me, half of the remaining are also me testing from different email accounts, and the rest are others who just tested it. So I&#8217;m pretty much still the only &#8220;real&#8221; user. Which is fine, because it means if I make some drastic changes, nobody will care.<\/p>\n<p>One of big things I&#8217;d like to do is organize notes into &#8220;Notebooks&#8221;, as other note-taking apps do, just so things are a little more sorted, and perhaps look a bit more wiki-ish. I&#8217;ll probably have the full-page view be the default. I&#8217;d like to see it perhaps look more like <a href=\"https:\/\/observablehq.com\/\">Observable<\/a>&#8216;s notebooks. It doesn&#8217;t need to be as complicated, although being able to insert interactive javascript code would be nice. (I actually wanted the released version of Trovedex to allow user-provided javascript, but it&#8217;s not a very trivial feature to add with Vue, so I moved it to the wishlist.)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, even though I&#8217;m using Trovedex for some things, it still does not beat using pen and paper, mostly because they allows me to draw little diagrams and arrows and stuff, which isn&#8217;t so easy to create on the computer (possible, but not nearly as easy). Perhaps giving Trovedex an SVG overlay shape creator would help. This note-taker on YouTube seems to really like an iOS app called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gingerlabs.com\/\">Notability<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wW4QcHaeubk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only available for iOS though, and I don&#8217;t want to shell out money for Apple&#8217;s overpriced hardware for the sake of one app. Also the guy&#8217;s handwriting is super sloppy, and I&#8217;m not sure if he&#8217;s just got naturally sloppy handwriting (he&#8217;s studying medicine after all, and doctors are required to have sloppy handwriting), or if a digital pen on a digital touchscreen is contributing to the sloppiness. I&#8217;m writing this post on an HP Spectre laptop, which has a touchscreen with pen-writing capabilities, but it&#8217;s not great for drawing, much less writing; the precision just isn&#8217;t good enough. Although perhaps I could try the paper-like screen protector he recommends.<\/p>\n<p>All that said, I&#8217;m not sure when I&#8217;ll actually get around to updating Trovedex; my focus is back on TuneSage for now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been about two months sinced I launched and starting using Trovedex, and so I&#8217;ve got some thoughts on some improvements I&#8217;d like to make at some point. As of this writing, the site only has 7 registered users. 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