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I love this! I typically use a separate text editor for things like this, but the block idea is great and works with how my brain likes to group things.

I know this is expanding the scope and complexity and probably opposite to what you're trying to do, but one thing that would be cool is to have different tabs. In my current workflow, I have a notepad for "working memory" which Heynote will easily replace. I also have a separate one to track the things I worked on each day. I need to have a record of who I charged for what incase I get audited. I could totally see having a block for each day - and I wouldn't want that intermingled with the other data.

Oh I would love it if you could render markdown as formatted html a la Typora

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Yeah, at the moment I'm hesitant to add tab support (for the reasons that you stated), though I've definitely thought about it.

Right - not sure tabs is the right metaphor. I definitely want the ability to keep some blocks around, put them aside, return to them later...

Maybe a block 'tagging' mechanism? Let me 'stash' a block and label it with tags... then later on I can 'restore' stashed blocks by searching for tags. Or open a new window easily containing every block that shares a particular tag?

Probably better not to. From my experience tabs (in the long run) are more annoying than helpful. Take vscode: I use the "open editors" menu, because tabs work just up to 3 of them. Then they either not fit (scroll-x), have titles far too short to be identifiable or take half the screen when using tab wrapping.

I haven't used heynote yet (in a train rn), so you may've that already in place, but:

I suggest implementing bookmarks with fuzzy search. Press ctrl+b a prompt comes up, type the thing, press enter and get your file scrolled to that section (markdown title)

Love this idea. Almost like a vscode "go to definition" functionality. Pair that with a "go back to previous location" feature and you can get a surprisingly nice and flexible workflow.

Perhaps you could consider documenting/specifying the file format. Seems to me that this could potentially become some kind of standard (if you're open to that). Perhaps with a .mixt extension (for "mixed text")?

Seems to me that this would be a pretty good general document format for a lot of use cases.

I think tabs could be interesting if coupled with a way to filter the list of blocks (ex: I only want to see math blocks, or only blocks containing the #daily tag, or only blocks from this month).

Then each tab would be an opportunity to apply a new set of filter on top of the same document.

Maybe try Obsidian for the second use case?

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