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Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text (https://www.gettextile.app)

36 points by stack_framer 4 days ago | 21 comments | View on ycombinator

Terretta 4 days ago |

`Textile` is a similar language to Markdown, used to weave text across multiple IDEs, programming languages, and CMSs:

https://textile-lang.com/

Textile is one of the core markups supported by GitHub and Pandoc:

https://github.com/github/markup / https://pandoc.org/

And many CMS, most famously TextPattern and MoveableType, but also things like Jekyll:

https://textile-lang.com/article/textile-markup-language-sup...

97-109-107 4 days ago |

Here's a few use cases that are in the same territory, which I tried address at various stages with emacs and scripts.

1. Everything I ever paste (which is longer than >N) will be saved into a file. The assumption being is that it's an e-mail or message with high reuse potential

2. I have a single keybind that launches a script-selector and passes the currently selected text to it.

3. Script examples: save selection as markdown in a preset file (for use with LLMs); send selection to a temporary emacs buffer.

4. I have two shortcut that - take the current text area into emacs to edit it; then, send the emacs buffer back to the current selected area (by pasting). Useful for replying to messages

baliex 4 days ago |

Can it wait/prompt for something new to be put onto the clipboard while it runs a Textile?

For a use-case where I've copied thing 1, then I start my Textile, then I go and copy thing 2 from somewhere, and then Textile continues with the remaining steps with thing 1 and thing 2?

craftedcode 4 days ago |

The "local drive as database" tradeoff is interesting. No sync but you own your data completely. For certain use cases that's actually the right call.

frereubu 4 days ago |

The text on your site is cut off on both left and right on my iPhone 13 mini, and I can't zoom, so it's unreadable.

cardamomo 4 days ago |

This could be useful for writing report card comments! Source: I'm a teacher. It's report card season. :)

cosmotic 4 days ago |

Looks a lot like CyberChef which is web based. https://cyberchef.org/

metalliqaz 4 days ago |

shares a name with the markup language[1] and even though it's in a different category, it's a little close for comfort

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language)

darkteflon 4 days ago |

This looks really cool and right up my alley. Congratulations on showing it to people. Will check it out!

tquinn35 4 days ago |

I’m a little confused what this does. Is it like espanso?

vifly_net 4 days ago |

expend to ime could be a way

ChrisArchitect 4 days ago |

Not to be confused with https://textile-lang.com/

Talpur1 3 days ago |

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mevlut 3 days ago |

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