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

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Post by azeirah »

k2enemy wrote: post #69
azeirah wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can try out brainstorm: github.com/Azeirah/brainstorm, Tags can be used to semantically link notes, or if you want to link to another note, you can just use []() markdown link syntax, each note has its own url. You can try the demo at sandstorm.io (install brainstorm as an app) Or you can try a slightly older version here: http://brainstorm-notes.meteor.com/board/Home Is that similar to what you're looking for?

Looks pretty cool, but I had trouble getting the links to work just using a note title. I'm also looking for something native that will operate on a folder full of text files (for easy backup, syncing, and versioning).

Yeah that functionality isn't implemented yet, right now it only works with direct links to notes using []()..

Someday I'll build the perfect note-taking application, quote me on that!

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

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Post by vonklaus »

girvo wrote: post #36
vonklaus wrote: post #21

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

This was quite good. I don't know much about Pandoc but it is mentioned quite a bit ITT. I tried texts app() out and it is a strong offering.

Great product and does seem to have an awesome workflow, being quite close to what I want. It is a bit pricey ($29.99) for a note taking app but if it fulfilled your use case, it could be worth it for the boost in your productivity.

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

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Post by gnuvince »

an6n wrote: 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…

Hey Anton, are you attached to using markdown? A nice alternative, and the one I use for my own notes, is Emacs + org-mode. If you're a vim guy, you can load up evil-mode to get the vim keybindings. Org-mode is a really nice piece of software, my three favorite features are:

1. It's really easy to move things around. Moving a section up or down, re-ordering lists, etc. is done with very simple keyboard shortcuts.

2. You can embed source code in your document and you can also execute it and have the result inserted inside the document. This is great if you are describing a piece of code and you want to give examples.

3. Editing tables in org-mode is very easy and very nice.

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

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Post by vonklaus »

octref wrote: post #25
vonklaus wrote: post #21

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…

Maybe Typora[0]? [0]: http://typora.io/

Everyone has a note taking app that fits their style. This seems as close as it can be for me. Love it. Also, I like how you cited it[0].

[0] in such a short comment.

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

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Post by alkonaut »

singhrac wrote: post #77

This is very slick. Not to nitpick, but did anyone else find that some (important) keyboard shortcuts were missing? Ctrl/Alt-Backspace in particular didn't work for me. Though I guess vim doesn't have support for that either.

Wow, have been using computers since age 6 and been a professional dev for 15 years, never even heard of ctrl+backspace :D Thanks. (I tend to use ctrl+shift+left/right to highlight, then delete. That tends to always work)

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

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Post by anotheryou »

nlte wrote: 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 really like that you can write html tags inline. Do you know which "flavor" or extension does this?
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