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Re:Show HN: MonsterWriter – Write a thesis, post, or organiz... by WolfOliver on Monday April 22, 2024 @06:43AM (#40113051)
For now, it is only copy&paste

To have some content, open any website and press cmd+a, just past it into the editor. depending on the size it might take a little but the editor tries to clean up your pasted content and inserts it.

Re:Show HN: MonsterWriter – Write a thesis, post, or organiz... by WA on Monday April 22, 2024 @06:56AM (#40113104)
Stream of thought feedback – nice idea, but feels clumsy:

- Same doc references to sections or tables, how are they supposed to work? Can't get it to work.

- I hover over the "element selector" way too often by accident when just wanting to access "settings".

- I wish there was a sidebar that shows all available elements. The popup is kinda annoying. The popup also doesn't indicate that it is scrollable.

- Linkify-feature opening a modal is annoying and breaks the flow, should be a hovering tooltip.

- Coming from a Markdown editor, I kinda fight the section-concept constantly. For example, tab creates a new section, whereas I expect a code block.

- Electron-app feeling, less optimized than VSCode.

- How do I create a second document?

Just my two cents, but currently, it wouldn't fit for my use case.

Re:Show HN: MonsterWriter – Write a thesis, post, or organiz... by WolfOliver on Monday April 22, 2024 @07:38AM (#40113339)
Thanks for your feedback. You can find the x-references when you insert a citation, there is an extra tab for this