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  @geffrey having been kinda traumatized by Logseq in particular on modern flowing UI, I have to say, these sparks of modern, careful design are really nice

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  So far I had designed Pleiades with this notion of "major modes" being selected via a left sidebar system. I am thinking of pivoting that to a popup modal you expose with something like Command-W or Option-W. Declutter the interface and move towards the idea that major modes are tied to a specific window... so you can center Pleiades on the specific major mode. (Notes vs knowledge mapping vs rituals vs focused writing)

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  Interesting problem in design for #pkm I just stumbled across: the difference between the wiki and the ritual, so to speak. "Wiki" here holds as a placeholder for evergreen notes, outliner entities, whatever. Persistent things that get iterated on, mentioned, edited and updated. And then there’s the ritual of re-expressing something to work it in your mind, not in the records of the system. Structured records ultimately help with discovery. But only excercise anchors in the...

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  I thought I knew what I wanted for this picker and would easily design it and yeah I’m just not 🫩 GUI design sucks sometimes

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  Goddamnit sometimes Pleiades whole editor experience is painful and doesn’t want to hold together and it keeps taking a good while. But also today I had a prototype and it was mainly just rendering but suddenly I could collapse and expand headings inside individual atoms and you could precisely control what information took up canvas estate. Giant set of data cut to size in a moment. Now that’s a cool experience. This vision *is* working out.

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  CSS anchor API covereth a multitude of sins in your complex rich editor API…

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  Well. The absolute tiny, miniscule core of the Pleiades editor/render system works. I can render rich text. I can compose documents within other documents. I have folding logic (in three different ways.) There’s still a lot here missing. Selection and editing in particular. The structured data tools I consider part of the core experience. *But it’s getting there.*

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  What I am not at all sure of how I will be able to figure it out and will probably give me endless nightmares - the text edit surface w.r.t. composition events. There's just no happy path there and my rendering approach would break *precisely* there because the engine can delete the rendered components out from under me. Which is *no fun at all*.

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  @randomgeek because we were both shitting on multi-block text selection in Capacities… well as I was doing my technical research for Pleiades rich text editor, I think I have a strong suspicion why they don’t do it. Each block in their model likely has its own DOM mounting responsibility, and if they let IME touch across multiple blocks, their DOM state is gonna get clobbered to hell.

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  The longer I think about it, the more I’m happy with building Pleiades just for myself. I keep ears to the world of PKM softwares out of… well not exactly professional interest. But every new project is a person’s statement about what they appreciate and need. But there’s also. So. Much. Frickin. Noise. I’m happy with sharing my ideas and insights but something about the whole noise makes me wholesale desinterested about jumping into the pool myself and adding to the thrashing.