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Re: Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown

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post #28

I like it, waiting for the Linux application... Hope to see more of this as application and not as web apps, I really don't like this new web apps trend.

> I really don't like this new web apps trend.

I think the desktop apps will be probably also web apps... (built with nw.js or electron).

Re: Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown

#32
post #8

https://stackedit.io/ is my markdown editor of choice. You can sync your documents with Google Drive, Dropbox, publish to GitHub. Really not easy to beat, in my opinion. However, there's no live collaboration feature currently in Stackedit so I'm interested to see what Classeur has to offer in this respect. (Now I see that Stackedit and Classeur are related projects, apparently both authored by https://github.com/ben…

I'd not seen that before. Really like how it looks, and how easy it is to use.

Re: Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown

#33
post #15

Dear fellow hackers, I've been looking for an application setup with what I could write my personal (research) journal using vim with markdown annotation and with embedded multimedia (screencaptures, mostly). It would be great to have a possibility to attach files to notes, too. Of course I would like the setup to be open source. Does anyone have similar needs and perhaps solutions for them? I tried atom with vim-bin…

It's early days yet but this is exactly what I'm trying to achieve with stash[0], plus the ability to browse notebooks over HTTP and run/embed dynamic queries into documents. It's essentially a specification of a directory structure for plain-text files and a bunch of tools for doing bulk manipulation. I began migrating all of my notes from Evernote a few months ago and it seems to be handling it well.

[0] https://github.com/no-silo/stash-design, https://github.com/no-silo/stash-server

Re: Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown

#34
post #31
post #28

I like it, waiting for the Linux application... Hope to see more of this as application and not as web apps, I really don't like this new web apps trend.

> I really don't like this new web apps trend. I think the desktop apps will be probably also web apps... (built with nw.js or electron).

Only the simpler or the worse ones -- trading speed, utility, connection to the OS, etc for ease of development.

Re: Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown

#35
post #27

The thing that would make all these markdown editors a killer app for me is an easy way to link between documents. Something like vimwiki, where you can surround a word or group of words with "[[" "]]" and it turns that word into a [[link]]. These apps are great for editing a single document, but fall down when you want to create a notebook or set of interlinked notes.

Why not vimwiki?

Re: Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown

#36

I spent about an hour looking for a note taking app today. The problem with most markdown editors is that the note taker rarely reads the note in absentia. I mean, I read my notes as I write them and edit them, but more often than not, I am changing them as I read or consult them. The mou/macdown/classeur approach is to have a preview that can be toggled or visible in split screen mode. Conversely, notes.app on Mac w…

http://texts.io/ is my recommnedation. It's WYSIWYM -- write Markdown, view real formatted text. And it uses Pandoc under the hood, so it's exporting tools are awesome; and worst case, kick it out to XeTex and render it exactly how you want

Re: Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown

#37
post #15

Dear fellow hackers, I've been looking for an application setup with what I could write my personal (research) journal using vim with markdown annotation and with embedded multimedia (screencaptures, mostly). It would be great to have a possibility to attach files to notes, too. Of course I would like the setup to be open source. Does anyone have similar needs and perhaps solutions for them? I tried atom with vim-bin…

Hello,

If you were willing to trade markdown for asciidoc (same goal, different execution), then a combination of asciidoc in vim simultaneously with the asciidoc previewed in google chrome could be a good approximation of what you want. Embedded images work quite well because you can easily specify the final width you want the image to take, on the page... for example. Finally, you can easily produce a pdf with 'a2x'.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/asciidoctorjs-live...

http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/a2x.1.html

Also, this page is interesting:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_documentation_...

Re: Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown

#38
post #27

The thing that would make all these markdown editors a killer app for me is an easy way to link between documents. Something like vimwiki, where you can surround a word or group of words with "[[" "]]" and it turns that word into a [[link]]. These apps are great for editing a single document, but fall down when you want to create a notebook or set of interlinked notes.

You could use GitHub. You can link to other documents in the repository using relative paths, there's an editor that's decent, and you get versioning for free too (assuming it's a public repository.)

Re: Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown

#39

I spent about an hour looking for a note taking app today. The problem with most markdown editors is that the note taker rarely reads the note in absentia. I mean, I read my notes as I write them and edit them, but more often than not, I am changing them as I read or consult them. The mou/macdown/classeur approach is to have a preview that can be toggled or visible in split screen mode. Conversely, notes.app on Mac w…

Take a look at vim-pandoc

https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc-syntax/blob/master/...

It uses conceal to show bold/italic text and plain markdown on your editing line

Re: Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown

#40
post #27

The thing that would make all these markdown editors a killer app for me is an easy way to link between documents. Something like vimwiki, where you can surround a word or group of words with "[[" "]]" and it turns that word into a [[link]]. These apps are great for editing a single document, but fall down when you want to create a notebook or set of interlinked notes.

I worked with a friend of mine to write a documentation generator for assembly code. It lets you write your docs with markdown, and has "[[syscall]]" syntax to link to another syscall from your docs. Example:

http://www.knightos.org/documentation/reference/threading.ht...

https://github.com/KnightOS/kernel/blob/06aeba5442a073d02338...

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