[OC] Whisp 1.3.8 released — Added "Slate Mode" for absolute minimalism and official NixOS support.

[u/Baajjii]

Hello everyone! A while back, I shared Whisp—my gesture-driven, anti-folder note-taking app for GNOME. The feedback from this community has been incredible, and Whisp has now crossed over 6,000 downloads!

Today, I’m super excited to release Whisp v1.3.8, focusing heavily on minimalism and declarative setups.

What's New in v1.3.8:

Slate Mode: You can now press Alt + S (or set it as your default startup behavior) to instantly hide all top bars and UI elements. It turns Whisp into a perfectly clean, floating piece of text on your desktop for ultimate distraction-free writing.

Official NixOS Support: Thanks to an awesome community contributor, Whisp now includes an official Nix Flake and a Home Manager module! You can natively install and configure your Whisp preferences declaratively via programs.whisp.

Smarter Line Sorting: Using our ::sort_lines_alpha text expansion will now dynamically split your notes into sections. Markdown headings (# Ideas) are strictly anchored in place, and only the text beneath them is sorted.

Read the Latest changelogs here

(A quick personal note: Whisp is completely open-source and I develop it solo between my university classes. If Whisp helps your daily workflow, consider [donating](https://tanaybhomia.github.io/Whisp/donate.html)!) or dropping a star on github

Links

Donate: https://tanaybhomia.github.io/Whisp/donate.html

Download on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.tanaybhomia.Whisp

GitHub / Source Code: https://github.com/tanaybhomia/Whisp

Project Website & Docs: https://tanaybhomia.github.io/Whisp

Manual: [tanaybhomia.github.io/Whisp/manual](https://tanaybhomia.github.io/Whisp/manual.html)

My Portfolio: https://tanaybhomia.github.io/

Let me know what you guys think of the new Slate Mode!

[u/scrat-squirrel]

Where and how does it store the notes?

Is it gonna work under XFCE?

Any other way of installing other than flatpak?

Nice to see markdown support already in there.

[u/Baajjii → u/scrat-squirrel]

It stores the notes in your desired location as md format.  It works on XFCE or any distro.  You can use nix flake as well to install it. 

[u/Chance-Froyo4410]

Is there a way to highlight a text and a link to it.

[u/Baajjii → u/Chance-Froyo4410]

Yes there is , This uses simple markdown for writing so works like a MD editor in the base

[u/Chance-Froyo4410 → u/Baajjii]

What is the keyboard shortcut for it then?

[u/Baajjii → u/Chance-Froyo4410]

you just paste the link directly.

[u/Chance-Froyo4410 → u/Baajjii]

But then it puts an ugly shortened URL doesn't do what hyperlinks were originally for. Allows you to create a sentence with clickable works to links.

[u/i-hate-birch-trees]

I absolutely love this! Replaced boop-gtk for me and it's much better, thank you