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# capture.love
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Sometimes you just want to capture a stray thought. Seeing unrelated text can
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make it fly right out of your brain. This app gives you a blank slate every
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time, and saves what you write somewhere in a single hard-coded directory
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tree. Once it's saved, use [pensieve.love](https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/pensieve.love)
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to browse that directory tree.
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capture.love is a compatible fork of [lines.love](http://akkartik.name/lines.html),
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an editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings.
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Designed above all to be easy to modify and give you early warning if your
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modifications break something.
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## Getting started
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Install [LÖVE](https://love2d.org). It's just a 5MB download, open-source and
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extremely well-behaved. I'll assume below that you can invoke it using the
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`love` command, but that might vary depending on your OS.
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First run: [run from the terminal](https://love2d.org/wiki/Getting_Started#Running_Games)
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with a directory to write notes to.
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Later runs: you don't need to provide any arguments. For convenience, turn it
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into a .love file you can double-click on:
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```
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$ zip -r /tmp/capture.love *.lua
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```
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## Keyboard shortcuts
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While editing text:
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* `ctrl+f` to find patterns within a file
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* `ctrl+c` to copy, `ctrl+x` to cut, `ctrl+v` to paste
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* `ctrl+z` to undo, `ctrl+y` to redo
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* `ctrl+=` to zoom in, `ctrl+-` to zoom out, `ctrl+0` to reset zoom
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* `alt+right`/`alt+left` to jump to the next/previous word, respectively
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* mouse drag or `shift` + movement to select text, `ctrl+a` to select all
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* `ctrl+e` to modify the sources
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For shortcuts while editing drawings, consult the online help. Either:
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* hover on a drawing and hit `ctrl+h`, or
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* click on a drawing to start a stroke and then press and hold `h` to see your
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options at any point during a stroke.
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capture.love has been exclusively tested so far with a US keyboard layout. If
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you use a different layout, please let me know if things worked, or if you
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found anything amiss: http://akkartik.name/contact
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## Known issues
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* No support yet for Unicode graphemes spanning multiple codepoints.
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* No support yet for right-to-left languages.
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* Undo/redo may be sluggish in large files. Large files may grow sluggish in
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other ways. capture.love works well in all circumstances with files under
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50KB.
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* If you kill the process, say by force-quitting because things things get
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sluggish, you can lose data.
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* The text cursor will always stay on the screen. This can have some strange
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implications:
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* A long series of drawings will get silently skipped when you hit
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page-down, until a line of text can be showed on screen.
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* If there's no line of text at the top of the file, you may not be able
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to scroll back up to the top with page-up.
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So far this app isn't really designed for drawing-heavy files. For now I'm
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targeting mostly-text files with a few drawings mixed in.
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* No clipping yet for drawings. In particular, circles/squares/rectangles and
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point labels can overflow a drawing.
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* Touchpads can drag the mouse pointer using a light touch or a heavy click.
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On Linux, drags using the light touch get interrupted when a key is pressed.
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You'll have to press down to drag.
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* Can't scroll while selecting text with mouse.
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* No scrollbars yet. That stuff is hard.
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## Mirrors and Forks
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This repo is a fork of [lines.love](http://akkartik.name/lines.html), an
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editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings.
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Updates to it can be downloaded from:
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* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/capture.love
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* https://tildegit.org/akkartik/capture.love
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* https://git.merveilles.town/akkartik/capture.love
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* https://nest.pijul.com/akkartik/capture.love (using the Pijul version control system)
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Further forks are encouraged. If you show me your fork, I'll link to it here.
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## Associated tools
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* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/pensieve.love is the full-scale UI for browsing
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notes captured using capture.love.
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* https://codeberg.org/akkartik/lines2md exports lines.love files to Markdown
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and (non-editable) SVG.
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* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/lines2html.love exports lines.love files to html
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and inline SVG.
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## Feedback
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[Most appreciated.](http://akkartik.name/contact)
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