Show HN: Mmap.it – personal search without context switching
mmap.itI love how focused it is! Would this work on linux in case I build it from source? Just tried it out on my mac and seems to be a little buggy at the moment. The editor doesn't seem to reliably respond to keystrokes and the search window went blank a couple of times. I guess it needs some polish, but I like the UI a lot.
Thanks that really means a lot, the feedback is very much appreciated!
Building from source should work on linux. I'm still ironing out a lot of the kinks, the search window going blank is at the top of my list and I am also working on editor reliability.
Hope you can get the full value out of this once I've made it more reliable!
This is neat! Can you tell me how you got around to building this and what it's most useful for? I'm not a programmer but I've been thinking a lot about migrating out of Evernote to Roam or Notion and this made me think of that.
Thanks! Glad you think so. I've found it's most useful for workflow documentation and code snippets.
The main reason I built mmap is I started a new job a few months ago which required learning a ton of new workflows that leveraged a bunch of unfamiliar technologies. Documentation for these was scattered over github, confluence, google groups, etc. which made it both time consuming and difficult to find what I was looking for.
I wanted to be able to save documentation and code snippets in my own words so I could quickly find it without switching windows. It's lead to a noticeable jump in my productivity so far.
As this runs on macos, any plans to make it universal binary for both macos and iOS/iPadOS?
We are planning on releasing for both windows and linux soon. Due to the app being focused on accessibility for developer workflows, mobile applications are a little further out on the product roadmap but will be coming eventually!
Any plans for dark mode? It's a dealbreaker not having it on Mac post-Mojave IMO.
Yes 100%, you're not the first person to ask. It might be sacrilegious to admit but I never use dark mode so it slipped to back of mind.