- Dropbox Paper specific items like +LinkToDocument, @Person, #tag
- Digital Paper functionality like stylized tables /note red, creates a red box and puts your cursor inside it
- literally just two commandline tools /date, /time
These are all much more convenient than clicking GUI buttons to get these formatting options yet incredibly limited. There are on the order of tens of these capabilities in any similar application. Notion, Slack, TiddlyWiki, etc.
I can think up hundreds of keyboard-text -> computer-things. Sure they are basic and understood processes, but unless they are built by a developer for a walled garden application you can't really have them. In general, this is one of the reasons I primarily use vim/emacs and linux, so I can build my own interface for my computer. But I'm interested in bringing that textgrid customization into a canvas application that supports more media types than text. vim + repl + powerpoint. Keyboard driven, mouse driven, stylus driven and as powerful as a computer can be.
- I can highlight 3 paragraphs and type /column to make a three column layout.
- I can type /tabs to create tabs in my document ala tiddlywiki tabs.
- I can link statusbar like information into a document with /uptime and document how much time this document has been open.
I would like these capabilities in a shared document system to be able to work collaboratively on a higher level than text, and with more programmatic options than the tens that these applications provide.
I think I can't express this well and I'm really at the beginning of thinking about it, thanks for taking the time to read it. Maybe there's nothing here and this is just a manifestation of my frustration of using a computer.
[1]: things I can type on my ~80 or ~100 key keyboard.