Weekend Project
Productivity
text editor
SHOW HN2012
50points
22comments
#473of 1,677 in 2012
Top 29%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.20.
Design: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks good and well designed
From 3 comments
Looks really good! I think it would be useful if a two finger slide moved the cursor by word boundaries as opposed to speeding up the cursor. For example, in your video around…
mrmaddog on HNGreat stuff! How difficult would it be to have the sliding gestures on the keyboard itself? Keeping my fingers at the same place would make things even faster... Also, have you…
Gring on HNI think i was sold with the nujabes background. Great work by the way!
rel on HN
Objections
Inspired by Daniel Hooper's video without credit
From 2 comments
IMHO you should credit the author of that video. While your work is amazing and you should be praised for your achievement, you should also make it clear about your inspiration.…
yuchi on HNvery much agree. apart from anything else, the inspiration is so obvious that if you don't credit you're basically just asking for a fight. and if you get it in the app store he…
iamgilesbowkett on HN
Two-finger swipe overshoots cursor position
From 1 comment
Looks really good! I think it would be useful if a two finger slide moved the cursor by word boundaries as opposed to speeding up the cursor. For example, in your video around…
mrmaddog on HN
Requests
Open source the code or release as a library
From 3 comments
Great stuff! How difficult would it be to have the sliding gestures on the keyboard itself? Keeping my fingers at the same place would make things even faster... Also, have you…
Gring on HNIn addition to submitting it to the App Store as a standalone app, I'd highly recommend componentizing your work and selling the source or a library through Cocoa Controls or…
aaronbrethorst on HNAre you going to put this on github ?
frytaz on HN
Move cursor by word boundaries
From 1 comment
Looks really good! I think it would be useful if a two finger slide moved the cursor by word boundaries as opposed to speeding up the cursor. For example, in your video around…
mrmaddog on HN
Show cut/copy/paste after selection
From 1 comment
looks nice. was it somewhat-inspired by the video going around that demonstrates faster cursor movements by sliding fingers over the keyboard? after a selection is made, it might…
smoody on HN
Questions
When will it be available to the public?
From 1 comment
looks nice. was it somewhat-inspired by the video going around that demonstrates faster cursor movements by sliding fingers over the keyboard? after a selection is made, it might…
smoody on HN
Alternatives named
SwipeSelection jailbreak tweak
From 2 comments
Seems like quite a few developers are starting to adopt this idea, which I think is great! There's already a jailbreak version that was done a few days ago…
peterkelly on HNSimultaneously developed as a Cydia plugin called SwipeSelection: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/06/editing-text-on-your-ipad-speed-up-the-process-with-swipeselection/ Works on…
christiangenco on HN
SelectWithSwipes
From 1 comment
It takes a few tricks, but it is possible to attach a gesture recognizer to the keyboard window in an App Store-compatible fashion: https://github.com/rpetrich/SelectWithSwipes
ryanpetrich on HN
SlideSelection
From 1 comment
I made an similar implementation of this here: https://github.com/cncool/SlideSelection It uses two fingers to select text because I couldn't figure out how to detect when the…
cncool on HN