alt.hn

6/1/2026 at 6:54:12 PM

Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text

 https://www.gettextile.app

by stack_framer

6/1/2026 at 11:30:55 PM

Can it wait/prompt for something new to be put onto the clipboard while it runs a Textile?

For a use-case where I've copied thing 1, then I start my Textile, then I go and copy thing 2 from somewhere, and then Textile continues with the remaining steps with thing 1 and thing 2?

by baliex

6/1/2026 at 11:47:27 PM

No, but this is a great suggestion. I imagine a flow that looks something like this:

(1) When creating the textile, you would add a step to "wait for new clipboard data."

(2) When you run the textile, and it gets to that step, a modal would appear, prompting you to copy the new thing to your clipboard.

(3) Once you've got the new thing on your clipboard, you would go back and click "Continue" on the modal from step 2.

(4) Textile would continue with the new thing on your clipboard.

Is that kind of what you were thinking?

by stack_framer

6/1/2026 at 10:33:39 PM

This could be useful for writing report card comments! Source: I'm a teacher. It's report card season. :)

by cardamomo

6/1/2026 at 8:43:43 PM

The text on your site is cut off on both left and right on my iPhone 13 mini, and I can't zoom, so it's unreadable.

by frereubu

6/1/2026 at 8:52:18 PM

Same on Android, duck browser

by thejokeisonme

6/2/2026 at 3:04:24 AM

Looks much better now

by thejokeisonme

6/1/2026 at 9:14:28 PM

Thanks! Should be fixed.

by stack_framer

6/1/2026 at 10:00:37 PM

This looks really cool and right up my alley. Congratulations on showing it to people. Will check it out!

by darkteflon

6/1/2026 at 10:26:55 PM

I’m a little confused what this does. Is it like espanso?

by tquinn35

6/1/2026 at 10:42:01 PM

I'm not too familiar with Espanso, but Textile is not a text expander. Textile allows you to pre-define a sequence of steps that dynamically generate the text you want, by running commands on your computer, reading your clipboard, or using hard-coded text you provide.

Here's a quick example, and one that I often use with Textile to generate a preview URL based on my current branch:

(1) Start with the output of the command `git branch --show-current` in the `~/code` directory (yielding text like `JIRA-1234/some-feature`).

(2) Replace all `/` characters with `-` (now the text is `JIRA-1234-some-feature`).

(3) Prepend `[preview](https://staging-`, which is the start of a markdown link (now the text is `[preview](https://staging-JIRA-1234-some-feature`).

(4) Append `.example.com)`, which is the end of the markdown link (now the text is `[preview](https://staging-JIRA-1234-some-feature.example.com)`).

(5) Copy the result to my clipboard.

With those steps saved in Textile, I can now click a button to run them over and over again (or use a keyboard shortcut if I assigned one). So no matter which branch I'm on, I'll always get a proper preview link without having to construct it manually myself.

by stack_framer

6/2/2026 at 12:18:19 AM

expend to ime could be a way

by vifly_net