Thanks! Your answer also suggests a tradeoff: the academics around me would fairly easily get used to YAML/md/etc but would struggle to internalize `let`, `export` and similar notions needed just to declare metadata in your example `%(export let metadata = {`. So it looks like Quarto caters to this population too, at the cost of being less streamlined for those wanting to include code and structured instructions, whereas Nota is more natural for coders at the cost of potentially losing the non-coding academics. Fair?
The aim seems similar to Quarto (https://quarto.org/) - an "open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc" which "create[s] dynamic content with Python, R, Julia, and Observable". @wcrichton how does Nota relate to Quarto and similar prior efforts?
> I guess what you want is navigating between sibling comments right?
It's actually more than that: when there are lots of sub-comments, it helps to see the immediate "mother" of the comment node you're reading. Imagine a comment that has two replies, and the first reply has dozens and dozens of sub-replies and sub-sub-replies, which typically veer into all sorts of adjacent issues. By the time I'm done with the 1st reply and its dozens and dozens of sub-replies, it is often unclear what the initial comment (or even topic) was. It is then very helpful to be able to glance back up to the initial comment across the now-collapsed first reply and its dozens and dozens of sub-replies, before reading reply #2. Simply navigating to reply #2 doesn't give you that.
> don't really get this feature. Can you elaborate more?
I mean this page of the HN site: https://news.ycombinator.com/active . It has the currently actively discussed stories, and is a great way to catch up after not reading HN for a day or two. A kind of intermediate step between best ( https://news.ycombinator.com/best ) and the homepage.
[Edit: the 'active' page apparently has an RSS feed here, in case you would be inclined to add it: https://hnrss.org/active ]
Fantastic! Here are three features that I would love to see:
1. collapsable threads, ideally with three different shortcuts: (i) collapse daughters of current comment, (ii) collapse mother of current comment - this is very useful when on the Nth comment far away below the mother comment, so no need to scroll up, but can continue reading the sister of mother's comment, (iii) collapse entire thread.
2. A story view for the /active section. I think there is no official API for it, but I find it to be the most useful entrypoint into HN at the beginning of the day, to catch up.
3. Semi-offtopic dreamland: a version adapted to (a terminal in) the remarkable and related tablets :)
https://wiki.debian.org/LXD
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768073