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Re: T/OT: Vibe coding a Windows notes app with Claude

Hi, Carl.

Great work! I will try it out shortly
I've been spending 6+ hours/day with Claude, myself. I'm using it to make the transition to linux. I'm using 4.7 adaptive, basically, and I see the division of labor: Claude is like a team working for me. I set the goals, Claude presents me with the options. I choose an option, Claude takes a stab at implementing it, with dozens of error messages to use for course-correction. 
The challenging part was jerry-rigging a substitute for Autohotkey in 
linux. Have to combine three different programs.

No one has responded to my inquiry about how you can (if you can) run 
VDosPlus Xywrite on linux. I know that dosbox-x runs natively, but I 
don't like that interface for Xy as much as I do VDP.


--Harry

At 04:00 PM 4/26/2026, you wrote:

updated script is here:

https://ammaze.net/xywwweb/dls/quicknotes.py


command prompt, enter
  start python quicknotes.py --portable

In the menus, "Help, Usage" displays a detailed help screen.

I'll let Claude himself summarize the changes and toot his own horn:

--Quote--
~125 KB of polished editor with tabs, themed syntax-highlighted 
preview, clickable hyperlinks, a Windows command runner with three 
execution modes (dialog auto-run, inline-into-note, current-line 
variants), a font picker covering every installed font, line numbers 
that handle word wrap correctly, light/dark themes, both plain-text 
and Edge-headless styled PDF export, persistent window geometry and 
options, full command-line options including a portable mode, brand 
auto-derivation from the filename, and a Help page that actually 
documents all of it.


What I [Claude] think is genuinely nice about how it turned out:


can run it, share it, or fork it


action did, with concrete indices and exit codes
tkinter? clean error. No browser for hyperlinks? webbrowser.open 
just opens the system default.



QuickNotes, your data is just there

--Unquote--

--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxxxx