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altero

I have a few ideas:

- should work offline

- realtime updates visible to other parties, so it would be usable as chat

- history

- align editor size to browser window size, so there are no two vertical scrolbars

- even better is to grow editor window as documents grow, use only browser vertical scrolab

- https, useless for me otherwise

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I second https and history (I already commented on dynamic layout).

Offline would require some work I guess but it is still a good idea. However, I tend to dislike realtime webapp as they are always trying to sync sending HTTP/WebSocket and throwing errors around whenever one packet is lost.

Well, TCP certainly doesn't throw a fit if a single packet is lost, and this is a note taking app, right? Well, if I need a constant internet connection just to take notes then your app is far less useful to me and I probably won't use it.

How does realtime actually work? Can you shed light on that, please?

Love the idea of realtime updates. Thanks!

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