I absolutely love this feature set! I really appreciate the markdown to formatting (Obsidian-style), live collaboration and LaTeX rendering. I think this also creates fantastic opportunities for innovations in communicating thoughts through LessWrong. Here’s a list of my feedback:
Shortcuts: One feature I really enjoy in Google Docs is more deep text editing keyboard shortcuts than the standard set. One of my favourites is the Alt + Shift + Arrow up or down that replaces the current paragraph with the one above or below, effectively moving the paragraph in the text. Obsidian has a keyboard shortcuts editor that is quite nice as well but could have more (see here, page 2). I think shortcuts can make writing as seamless as some code editors (not thinking VIM here, but unintrusive extra editor tooling). Additionally, as I mention elsewhere, some (I just know European) keyboards do not take well to Ctrl + Alt + [] shortcuts like Ctrl + Alt + M, especially on the web.
Collapsible boxes: Having “fact boxes” as expandable interactive elements seems like a very good idea as well and relatively cheap to implement. I recommend looking at e.g. Hugo XML syntax for these things (XML is a pain, you can probably figure a better writing UX out).
Interactive documents: I’m more for the Obsidian thought representation but the hierarchy in Roam is quite relevant for communicating thoughts to others. I think a strong representation of this is quite relevant and might be an in-line, minimalist, recursive “collapsible box” as described above.
Foot notes: I’d say we already have quite a strong Roam-style organization in the hover pop-ups of LessWrong post links and it would be very nice to have a version of that for foot-notes, given their disparate nature. I.e. hover = shows that specific footnote.
Live preview & 100% keyboard editing: See Obsidian’s implementation of this. The markdown to formatting feature is already super awesome is their LaTeX editing that does in-line MathJax with $ wrapping and block with $$ wrapping. The current LessWrong LaTeX editor requires me to use the cursor, AFAIK. Obsidian is also pretty good at minimalist formatting rulesets for inspiration. Check out their vast plugins library for inspiration as well. I’m sure there’s some absolute text editor gold in there.
Collaborative editing extension: This makes or breaks our usage of LessWrong as the editing platform of choice. It would be awesome to have editing group settings, i.e. so I don’t have to share every article with Apart Research members but can have a Google Drive-style folder sharing for blog post edits. Otherwise, we have to maintain a collection of links in a weird format somewhere.
I also echo the other comments’ feedback points. However overall, absolutely marvelous work! Really looking forward to the developments on this!
I absolutely love this feature set! I really appreciate the markdown to formatting (Obsidian-style), live collaboration and LaTeX rendering. I think this also creates fantastic opportunities for innovations in communicating thoughts through LessWrong. Here’s a list of my feedback:
Shortcuts: One feature I really enjoy in Google Docs is more deep text editing keyboard shortcuts than the standard set. One of my favourites is the Alt + Shift + Arrow up or down that replaces the current paragraph with the one above or below, effectively moving the paragraph in the text. Obsidian has a keyboard shortcuts editor that is quite nice as well but could have more (see here, page 2). I think shortcuts can make writing as seamless as some code editors (not thinking VIM here, but unintrusive extra editor tooling). Additionally, as I mention elsewhere, some (I just know European) keyboards do not take well to Ctrl + Alt + [] shortcuts like Ctrl + Alt + M, especially on the web.
Collapsible boxes: Having “fact boxes” as expandable interactive elements seems like a very good idea as well and relatively cheap to implement. I recommend looking at e.g. Hugo XML syntax for these things (XML is a pain, you can probably figure a better writing UX out).
Interactive documents: I’m more for the Obsidian thought representation but the hierarchy in Roam is quite relevant for communicating thoughts to others. I think a strong representation of this is quite relevant and might be an in-line, minimalist, recursive “collapsible box” as described above.
Foot notes: I’d say we already have quite a strong Roam-style organization in the hover pop-ups of LessWrong post links and it would be very nice to have a version of that for foot-notes, given their disparate nature. I.e. hover = shows that specific footnote.
Live preview & 100% keyboard editing: See Obsidian’s implementation of this. The markdown to formatting feature is already super awesome is their LaTeX editing that does in-line MathJax with $ wrapping and block with $$ wrapping. The current LessWrong LaTeX editor requires me to use the cursor, AFAIK. Obsidian is also pretty good at minimalist formatting rulesets for inspiration. Check out their vast plugins library for inspiration as well. I’m sure there’s some absolute text editor gold in there.
Collaborative editing extension: This makes or breaks our usage of LessWrong as the editing platform of choice. It would be awesome to have editing group settings, i.e. so I don’t have to share every article with Apart Research members but can have a Google Drive-style folder sharing for blog post edits. Otherwise, we have to maintain a collection of links in a weird format somewhere.
I also echo the other comments’ feedback points. However overall, absolutely marvelous work! Really looking forward to the developments on this!