In progress. Manage a directory tree containing plain-text notes (with [some line drawings](http://akkartik.name/lines.html)). Notes/files connect to each other using [symmetric cross-links](https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108766067153506592) which are saved outside the plain-text in a corresponding .json file. Some features: - Multiple views into an independent repo of plain text notes (with [some line drawings](http://akkartik.name/lines.html)). - Notes can have arbitrary named relationships (links) to each other, resulting in a graph. - The primary visual metaphor is an infinite 2D surface of fixed-width, non-overlapping, notes that can be operated on with an extensible set of commands. - Commands usually (but not always) create new columns of notes. Each column is an independent visualization of a subset of notes. - Find on surface. - Search all notes on disk in reverse-chronological order. - Notes can contain hyperlinks in [[wikiwords]] to other notes. Hyperlinks can't contain spaces. Clicking on a hyperlink opens the target in a new column. - A few other things. Explore the command menu and palette along the top. Some videos to help visualize these bullets (albeit with outdated UI): * https://archive.org/details/akkartik-pensieve-2022-07-27 (4.5 minutes) * https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108766067153506592 (30 seconds) * https://archive.org/details/akkartik-pensieve-2022-08-29 (3 minutes) pensieve.love is a compatible fork of [lines.love](http://akkartik.name/lines.html), an editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings. Designed above all to be easy to modify and give you early warning if your modifications break something. ## Getting started Install [LÖVE](https://love2d.org). It's just a 5MB download, open-source and extremely well-behaved. I'll assume below that you can invoke it using the `love` command, but that might vary depending on your OS. The first time you run pensieve.love, do so from a terminal and pass in the directory where you want to store your notes. (The repo contains a 'data.sample/' directory for trying out with.) From here on out, restarting pensieve.love will open the same directory. Run again from a terminal if you ever want to switch to a new directory. ## Keyboard shortcuts While editing text: * `ctrl+f` to find patterns within a file * `ctrl+c` to copy, `ctrl+x` to cut, `ctrl+v` to paste * `ctrl+z` to undo, `ctrl+y` to redo * `ctrl+=` to zoom in, `ctrl+-` to zoom out, `ctrl+0` to reset zoom * `alt+right`/`alt+left` to jump to the next/previous word, respectively * mouse drag or `shift` + movement to select text, `ctrl+a` to select all * `ctrl+w` to modify the sources For shortcuts while editing drawings, consult the online help. Either: * hover on a drawing and hit `ctrl+h`, or * click on a drawing to start a stroke and then press and hold `h` to see your options at any point during a stroke. pensieve.love has been exclusively tested so far with a US keyboard layout. If you use a different layout, please let me know if things worked, or if you found anything amiss: http://akkartik.name/contact ## Known issues * No support yet for Unicode graphemes spanning multiple codepoints. * No support yet for right-to-left languages. * Editing a note larger than 50KB grows sluggish (particularly during undo/redo) even when maximized. * If you kill the process, say by force-quitting because things things get sluggish, you can lose data. * Searching is slow. There's no index yet. Searching happens in the same thread as UI updates, so UI may go unresponsive with really large notes. I haven't observed this in practice. * Pressing keys while editing will try to always keep the text cursor on screen. This can have some strange implications: * A long series of drawings will get silently skipped when you hit page-down, until a line of text can be showed on screen. * If there's no line of text at the top of the file, you may not be able to scroll back up to the top with page-up. So far this app isn't really designed for drawing-heavy files. For now I'm targeting mostly-text files with a few drawings mixed in. * No clipping yet for drawings. In particular, circles/squares/rectangles and point labels can overflow a drawing. * Touchpads can drag the mouse pointer using a light touch or a heavy click. On Linux, drags using the light touch get interrupted when a key is pressed. You'll have to press down to drag. * Can't scroll while selecting text with mouse. * No scrollbars yet. That stuff is hard. ## Mirrors and Forks This repo is a fork of [lines.love](http://akkartik.name/lines.html), an editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings. Updates to it can be downloaded from: * https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/pensieve.love * https://tildegit.org/akkartik/pensieve.love * https://git.merveilles.town/akkartik/pensieve.love * https://nest.pijul.com/akkartik/pensieve.love (using the Pijul version control system) Further forks are encouraged. If you show me your fork, I'll link to it here. ## Associated tools * https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/capture.love provides a blank-slate UI into the same notes directory as pensieve.love. * https://codeberg.org/akkartik/lines2md exports lines.love files to Markdown and (non-editable) SVG. * https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/lines2html.love exports lines.love files to html and inline SVG. ## Feedback [Most appreciated.](http://akkartik.name/contact) In particular, pensieve.love has been exclusively tested so far with a US keyboard layout. If you use a different layout, please let me know if things worked, or if you found anything amiss.