[FR} Naming block
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It would be great, if block can be tagged/named & data can be exported by name/tag instead of copy & paste?
I've been thinking about this a lot going back and fourth, and at the moment I'm leaning towards not having this feature. The main reason is that it goes against the scratchpadness of the program.
I can totally see the usefulness of such a feature, and it's definitely something that I would expect from a more traditional Notes app. However a large part of Heynote's appeal is it's simplicity, and if that is to remain so, I'm going to have to say no to a lot of actually useful features.
I like the simplicity of heynote, and I agree with most of your design decisions. I have a workaround for your no-tags rule that puts all the work on the user, not you. :-)
I take notes for different projects and clients for whom I need a key to search. My workaround is placing a hashtag in the first line of a block i.e. #client1 #sftp-depot. The built-in search is good enough for straightforward searching. Maybe having the capacity to filter by #tags would be a helpful addition.
Side comment: scratchpadness does not mean transient. I expect my heynote file to hit the 100MB point before a year has passed. Even though I will transfer a better-written version of the note to a more traditional document/note environment, I expect to leave the original note in context for future reference.
Bumping this up, I really would like a search by tag!
For non-code content, I can just use the regex search feature and search by markdown heading.
But for code snippets/json, I would really like to have a tag feature.
It could be really dead simple, for example, I see that right now you're using
∞∞∞json as the sentinel separator.
What if here you accepted words until the newline as tags? Then existing ctrl+f will find it since this line is only visually hidden in the editor. So the only extra feature added will be a way to let people input it.
They don't even need to be shown, as the major usecase for this is if you have a really large document that is not easy to visually scan.