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Comment by fredsted | Hacker News Reader

Insomnia doesn't even come close to Paw due to the amount of features Paw has that Insomnia doesn't.

Also, Projects are just Paw files. Inside the files you can group and subgroup requests, too. Unless you meant something else?

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> Insomnia doesn't even come close to Paw due to the amount of features Paw has that Insomnia doesn't.

Can you list some of the important for you features that Insomnia lacks? (I'm not affiliated w/ Insomnia however I'm curious what makes Paw stand out to you.)

The big one for me is requests chaining, which I see they added. It's very cumbersome compared to Paw, though.

That might be true. For me Paw's UI doesn't help me (a simple user vs a power user) to work pleasantly. I am forced in Paw to deal with Projects, difficulty to rename requests, etc.

Yeah, it feels to me that Paw is designed to be a full-blown IDE for HTTP requests, and of course sometimes you just want Notepad.

By the way, you can double-click a request to rename it :)

As a self-confessed Paw fanboy, I'm kinda baffled by this. It seems a bit like complaining that you're forced to work with spreadsheets in Excel or text documents in Word. You need _somewhere_ to put the requests, and even if you don't want to have one Paw project per, err... project, you can just create one and then use it for everything and it'll even re-open it automatically every time you open the app.

And, if it helps, you can rename a request in Paw by clicking on its name in the sidebar while you have the request selected or clicking on the name where it shows up as a title in the Description panel in the middle of the screen.

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