Re:Show HN: Mmap.it – personal search without context switching
by raghavkhanna on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:03PM
(#22874055)
I love how focused it is!
Would this work on linux in case I build it from source?
Just tried it out on my mac and seems to be a little buggy at the moment. The editor doesn't seem to reliably respond to keystrokes and the search window went blank a couple of times. I guess it needs some polish, but I like the UI a lot.
Re:Show HN: Mmap.it – personal search without context switching
by pdepip on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @10:10AM
(#22877851)
Thanks that really means a lot, the feedback is very much appreciated!
Building from source should work on linux. I'm still ironing out a lot of the kinks, the search window going blank is at the top of my list and I am also working on editor reliability.
Hope you can get the full value out of this once I've made it more reliable!
Re:Show HN: Mmap.it – personal search without context switching
by jasonshen on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:10PM
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This is neat! Can you tell me how you got around to building this and what it's most useful for? I'm not a programmer but I've been thinking a lot about migrating out of Evernote to Roam or Notion and this made me think of that.
Re:Show HN: Mmap.it – personal search without context switching
by pdepip on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:50PM
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Thanks! Glad you think so. I've found it's most useful for workflow documentation and code snippets.
The main reason I built mmap is I started a new job a few months ago which required learning a ton of new workflows that leveraged a bunch of unfamiliar technologies. Documentation for these was scattered over github, confluence, google groups, etc. which made it both time consuming and difficult to find what I was looking for.
I wanted to be able to save documentation and code snippets in my own words so I could quickly find it without switching windows. It's lead to a noticeable jump in my productivity so far.
Re:Show HN: Mmap.it – personal search without context switching
by pdepip on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:06PM
(#22871453)
We are planning on releasing for both windows and linux soon. Due to the app being focused on accessibility for developer workflows, mobile applications are a little further out on the product roadmap but will be coming eventually!
Building from source should work on linux. I'm still ironing out a lot of the kinks, the search window going blank is at the top of my list and I am also working on editor reliability.
Hope you can get the full value out of this once I've made it more reliable!
The main reason I built mmap is I started a new job a few months ago which required learning a ton of new workflows that leveraged a bunch of unfamiliar technologies. Documentation for these was scattered over github, confluence, google groups, etc. which made it both time consuming and difficult to find what I was looking for.
I wanted to be able to save documentation and code snippets in my own words so I could quickly find it without switching windows. It's lead to a noticeable jump in my productivity so far.