🦿 Lucian Marin I like shelve in Python and I also like Notes app, but I hate iCloud. So I want to create a plain text notes app for myself that's using a single file instead of writing every file to the disk.

Mark Dain A few formats are zip files under the hood so this happens fairly often. There's a nice advantage to keeping your data in a single, ready-to-go file, but it does make seeking/searching more expensive. You now have to parse or unpack. I don't really see a lot of advantages there.

Nkrs QBASIC stored all code in one file. When you edited the file, the IDE would let you pick a function and then it would only display that function on the screen. The files would end up being long; you wouldn't know how long it really is, because you would always be looking at one of its many pieces, without having to go through the rest of the program. Here's a demo: youtube.com/watch?...

Haaktu I'm using TiddlyWiki. Funny since it's on HN's front page just a few moments ago.

👽 Paul Webb Huh, that's an interesting concept. Just a single file...hmm.