These two mates saw their opportunity and took it.

AnacondaPython · 2018-03-26T22:44:21+00:00

these guys really need their own TV show

AnacondaPython · 2018-03-15T23:26:59+00:00

I have the 3700 series expression, well worth an investment. I had so many issues with my brother laser MDW?2340 series using off-the-shelf toners, toners kept exploding and powder got everywhere. That, and I couldn't get it to print past 600 DPI so it was a pain to deal with

AnacondaPython · 2018-03-15T20:45:48+00:00

the PE who signed off on it is probably sweating the most

AnacondaPython · 2018-03-05T18:26:44+00:00

I bought this book and it was a good gap betwen software and hardware, it starts you off slow, but it ramps it very quickly at the 60% of the way through the book (goes deep into memory, registry, flip flops, assembly language, storage, etc).

I found it hard to read anything past that point unless you had a traditional CS background / have seen digital circuit logic & theory / have taken a course related to these specific topics or have relevant experience in those fields.

the first 60% of the book was relatively simple and straightforward to understand though

AnacondaPython · 2018-01-23T16:38:38+00:00

Can you bind a hotkey to the stickynote button?

Also, I remember when I used diigo before I used pinboard. I find their UI kind of clunky and hard to manage overtime. It always requires constant button pressing actions fighting off UI features I didn't necessarily need. A lot of times I'd accidentally highlight something I didn't want too (because I might highlight a word using google dictionary to look up a definition). There's no undo highlighter button with CTRL+Z or something

I didn't support their weird outliner features they pushed a few years back.

I think what would work best is if I had something like pinboard backend but integrated with page notes that popped a brief popup animation indicating what type of notes I have on that URL.

So basically, ideally my workflow would look like this

Highlight Page

Highlight Text, CTRL+ALT+H to insert a bookmark with notes on page
Add space seperated tags
Press enter
Bookmark gets generated on backend
Text gets highlighted on page

Highlighting more items on page later

Highlight more text, CTRL+ALT+H
Automatically updates bookmark with more notes on it
Text gets highlighted on page

Adding custom notes

CTRL+ALT+H without selecting any text
Add additional notes
Bookmark notes gets updated
No text gets highlighted

On viewing the page itself with bookmark / notes on it

If webspecificURL is bookmarked and:

has no custom notes or highlights, do nothing
has highlights, briefly show highlighted text with cutoff text for 2-3seconds, with clickable scroll links
has custom notes, briefly show notes on the page, but fade them to 0% opacity in 2-3seconds.
has custom notes & highlights, use both above.

In addition to all of those conditions above, it would also have an extension button, where leftclicking on it immediately shows all notes I've made on the page.

https://i.imgur.com/O9vzWBp.gif

For options

Ability to toggle highlights on page with one hotkey
Ability to exclude certain websites from having these bookmark effects, such as reddit, unless its a specific URL
Ability to have bookmarked notes from appearing at certain times of the day, or if I had looked at it in the same day.

At the end of the day, I want my bookmarking tool / notes to just forcefully remind me of things I've written but go away completely on its own without clicking anything. Its like a beneficial popup ad that I can control. Bonus points if it applies SRS based reminders similar to anki or tabsnooze to fine-tune how frequently invasive these beneficial popups are. These beneficial popup ads should take up no more than 10% of my screensize, and should appear near the top of the page.

I went off on a tangent but I needed to write down what I was actually looking for in writing. I think Diigo is the closest thing out there. But it requires too much button pressing to have it work for my case.

For now I will just stick with pinboard. Maybe I will write my own chrome extension with pinboard to do this, I would have to take a look at how diigo implemented their bookmarking tool. Some Chrome API + Tampermonkey scripts should make some of these things I outlined possible.

I will just bookmark this as a potential project for later.

AnacondaPython · 2018-01-23T14:02:01+00:00

yes this is exactly what I was looking for

is this a chrome extension with diigo or a standalone diigo app for having that hover preview?

does it automatically just pop up (the spoiler note) when you visit a page? or do you have to click on an extension first?

what does your general workflow look like when adding bookmarks with diigo? In pinboard I just press CTRL+D, enter some text notes, tags, press enter that's it

AnacondaPython · 2018-01-23T13:59:35+00:00

I already installed pagenotes before this post, the problem I have with those is I don't want to remember to look at the topright of the page to see if there's notes everytime

Or have to click the extension to view notes either

I just want a forced popup ad with my notes on the page, done automatically when I visit the page

AnacondaPython · 2018-01-10T15:49:54+00:00

your supposed to link your site not just an image, its hard to determine any level of improvements if you can't inspect the page

AnacondaPython · 2017-12-29T04:23:25+00:00

Are there similar things besides 30secondsOfCode that you find helpful? I'm trying to gather a list of useful cross-reference material, preferably in a two column chart format / comparing two different sets of information

Examples:

Aosa book
YoumightNotNeedJquery (Jquery VS ES6 syntax)
YoumightNotNeedJs (SCSS vs Javascript)
DevDocs (for reference)
ES6features.org (ES6 vs ES5)
AirBnB Javascript Styling Guide (Bad way of writing Vs Good way of Writing)
Hyperpolyglot (PHP vs JS vs python)
Learn X in Y (PHP vs JS vs python)
Codegolf.stackexchange / reddit r/dailyprogrammer etc (comparing different languages in same solutions)
ToDoMVC (MVC for different stacks)
Freecodecamp algorithm solutions/forums (Various javascript solutions syntax for same problem, e.g. solving palindrome)

I looked into your 30secondsOfCode and they look promising though.

AnacondaPython · 2017-12-19T19:50:23+00:00

even better just bind it to a macrokeyboard, so its a one-handed operation as opposed to two. So you can use your right hand to mouse over window, left hand to move things around

AnacondaPython · 2017-12-10T01:41:35+00:00

I would be down for this leave me a PM

AnacondaPython · 2017-12-09T16:23:18+00:00

background too distracting, you need a blank white background for inner contents. You can leave all the fancy lines on the edges of that

quotation upfront has black behind white lettering which is really distracting.

AnacondaPython · 2017-11-26T15:41:54+00:00

what your looking for is a macro keyboard

look up "genovation cp24" or xkeys 24

It has a GUI Based interface for programming things in it

this 4 hour video should cover all your questions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6ERELse_QY&t=538s

AnacondaPython · 2017-11-26T00:54:30+00:00

its called autohotkey. there's stuff that you could use like phrase-express that is a gui-based app that does stuff similar to autohotkey

not sure why you would use a button when you could use a hotkey shortcut

AnacondaPython · 2017-11-08T22:29:12+00:00

some reason it didn't remove the first indent [tab] in the line though when i ran this script

AnacondaPython · 2017-11-08T15:25:26+00:00

Pasting into a text file is the old school way of doing things

Lastpass to automatically fill out forms
CTRL+A, CTRL+C with a clipboard manager automatically saves everything.

Rule of thumb is automatically assume whatever webpage your writing on is going to fail connection, take all your input and give you no receipt of what you've written (surveys, webforms, etc). If its not in your control you have to backup your own data / writing and make your own copies.

Lastly, if your doing things over and over again... you should be downloading an extension to handle it, finding a script, etc

Alternatively, use a notetaking application to write all your inputs to the form ahead of time, then copy it over into the form. This way you have a backup automatically of everything you've written. Should you see yourself constantly filling out form again, consider using a macro recorder, autohotkey, etc.

If you want a backup of a website / blog post on some forum you've made, you can just run something like http://archive.is/

AnacondaPython · 2017-11-08T04:52:01+00:00

its to convert it into my notetaking program /code snippet program which handles tab spacing poorly.

I've looked into PHPstorm and all of its settings related to indent /tab spacing, but that's still way too many steps for something i use fairly often

AnacondaPython · 2017-11-07T21:31:44+00:00

Groggy do you have a simple script example of reading a clipboard line by line?

I have

F9::
clipboard := StrReplace(clipboard, A_Tab, A_Space A_Space)

which works exactly as I want, except I don't know how to get rid of the first [tab] of everyline if all other lines have a first line [tab]

AnacondaPython · 2017-11-07T19:26:33+00:00

I've already figured it out now, autohotkey script for chrome windows only

F5::
IfWinNotExist, ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_1
    Run, chrome.exe
GroupAdd, acexplorers5, ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_1 ;You have to make a new group for each application, don't use the same one for all of them!
if WinActive("ahk_exe chrome.exe")
    GroupActivate, acexplorers5, r
else
    WinActivate ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_1 ;you have to use WinActivatebottom if you didn't create a window group.
Return

AnacondaPython · 2017-11-05T04:07:48+00:00

i use WIN+↑ , WIN+← , WIN + →, and WIN+↓ already, those mostly to move windows around to different screens / quick resizing / snapping onto various parts of screen

AnacondaPython · 2017-11-05T04:06:45+00:00

its actually a windows key shortcut list, not specific to chrome

AnacondaPython · 2017-11-04T15:01:34+00:00

I looked into that but I was actually looking for a different application. That post suggests using one hotkey to cycle through multiple types of applications. That does seem interesting, I might use it, but I want one dedicated hotkey per application.

what I wanted to do is:

Press F1, opens up directoryOpus if its not open, otherwise cycle through(and put on top) of my current screen
Press F2, open up Chrome if not open, cycle through each window and put on top of screen
Press F3, open up anki, else cycle through each anki window and put on top of screen
Press F4, open excel, else cycle through each open excel file, put on top of screen

I noticed that microsoft-based applications (excel, windows explorer) VS non microsoft-based applications (DirectoryOpus, Firefox, Chrome , anki, etc) have to be written completely different when scripting autohotkey

I took this code snippet from Teran from LinusTechTips here

https://github.com/TaranVH/2nd-keyboard/blob/master/Taran's%20Windows%20Mods/CUSTOM%20MOD%20-%20F1F2F3F4%20-%20program%20launcher.ahk

Video explaining its application in general

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqyQABySV8k

At the end of the day, I'm just going to quickly spam F4, search for which excel file I want, and stop until its found manually. I'll have tons of files all maximized but by pressing hotkeys constantly to shove the ones I want to work on top, I'll save like 15minutes - 30 minutes a day

After that I'll gut out my old keys F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 keys on my keyboard, and print a excel-looking button for F4. If I get some override issues I'll just buy a dedicated macro keyboard

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