Re:Show HN: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook
by ylian on Monday December 01, 2014 @08:25PM
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That is a good idea. IPython Notebook was another inspiration for Quiver. Since Quiver uses an simple JSON format for data files, it's easy to write a script to convert IPython notebooks to Quiver notebooks. I don't yet have importer scripts, but I have written some exporter scripts here, and you get the idea. https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver/wiki/Export-Scripts
Re:Show HN: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook
by anabranch on Monday December 01, 2014 @08:54PM
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I made a quick and dirty script to convert markdown to quiver already but unfortunately have a ton on my plate right now.
https://gist.github.com/anabranch/09c421e3ff13e1245316
This basically just splits it on ```code``` blocks and only supports python at the moment, but could be a resource for others.
Re:Show HN: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook
by ylian on Monday December 01, 2014 @08:59PM
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Wow, that's fast. Appreciate that. Added to Quiver wiki.
Re:Show HN: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook
by mcphage on Monday December 01, 2014 @09:25PM
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It would be cool if it executed the code like IPython as well.
Re:Show HN: Quiver – The Programmer's Notebook
by ylian on Monday December 01, 2014 @09:45PM
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That would be cool, but would make the app more complicated. Think about all the other languages. You would have to include tons of runtimes. It's better to leave that to other apps/frameworks/tools.
I like to keep Quiver simple and lightweight. Quiver app is only 8MB unzipped, while Evernote is over 160MB unzipped.
edit: good work btw, I'm not completely sold on this solution but I do think there's a problem here. I'm pretty invested in evernote but think this has potential.