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Too bad I gave up on Chrome...
Apparently, the Firefox API is now similar to Chrome's, if you use that. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17507819 )
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...
Serious question: does anyone regularly use a Markdown notes app/site/extension? I've seen this kind of thing appear a few times a year and, while they are cool and I like Markdown, I find I stop using them rather quickly in favor of things like the macOS Notes app or Slack because of things like convenience, ease of sharing, better search, more ease of mind that my notes won't one day disappear because of a side eff…
So I'm planning on making my own desktop app that's Apple Notes, but in Markdown, and with some kind of git auto-commit feature. But the nice thing about Markdown + Git is that I'm not locked into using one app! If I ever want to try out another Markdown app in the future I can do so, if I want to make my own I can do so, if I later stop updating my app and need another one I can just switch.
Emacs people kinda figured this out a long time ago with Org-mode.
Serious question: does anyone regularly use a Markdown notes app/site/extension? I've seen this kind of thing appear a few times a year and, while they are cool and I like Markdown, I find I stop using them rather quickly in favor of things like the macOS Notes app or Slack because of things like convenience, ease of sharing, better search, more ease of mind that my notes won't one day disappear because of a side eff…
Personally, I use the Typora app for taking notes in markdown and sticking everything in a git repo. The main thing I'm missing is some kind of built-in git feature, would have been nice if it auto-committed for me instead of me having to do that manually. So I'm planning on making my own desktop app that's Apple Notes, but in Markdown, and with some kind of git auto-commit feature. But the nice thing about Markdown…
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The point of that if The text is to be edited in a general purpose text editor, I would rather it be in Markdown. Org mode is pretty useless as a format outside emacs proper.
Actually, the Org format is supported by web sites like GitHub and GitLab, and there are several parsers in different languages. It's even supported by Pandoc, so you can convert to/from anything Pandoc supports.
Don't get me wrong, I love org mode, but there is no real support on Android other that a damn-fine list-making app that uses a subset of org-mode format for its lists.
Personally, I bookmarked this piece of code, so that everytime I open a new tab and want to take notes, I just open one and press my bookmark link: data:text/html, Alternatively, you could also paste this in your browser URL bar and press enter. I got this code from some GitHub gist, but it has served me well for many years.
Microscopic tweak: white font on black background
data:text/html,
data:text/html, var div = document.getElementById('.');setTimeout(function() {div.focus();}, 0);Earlier quoted context omitted.
I take notes in Markdown in an editor that formats it automagically called IA Writer. Bullets are indented, headlines bolded and out-dented, etc.
Also: https://caret.io/ https://typora.io/
I'm sure there are a few more markdown "WYSIWYM" I'm forgetting...
To build your own see also https://simplemde.com/. Basically CodeMirror is friendly to mixed-font syntax highlighting.
Also yours truly https://mathdown.net
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No, it's generally "Copyright " to explain where the license is coming from , but a copyright license is the exact opposite of "all rights reserved".
No, not really. The phrase itself has no legal significance any more, anyway, but even if it did, this would basically work like an ACL: Allow MIT terms Deny * # all rights reserved (implied) Am I using it under MIT terms? Allowed. Otherwise not.
* http://jdebp.info./FGA/law-copyright-all-rights-reserved.htm...
Serious question: does anyone regularly use a Markdown notes app/site/extension? I've seen this kind of thing appear a few times a year and, while they are cool and I like Markdown, I find I stop using them rather quickly in favor of things like the macOS Notes app or Slack because of things like convenience, ease of sharing, better search, more ease of mind that my notes won't one day disappear because of a side eff…
For a while, I had some trouble with the tooling as most stuff is npm based and authors releasing on npm do not embrace system package managers (install locally vs. globally etc.). Recently, Okular (the KDE document viewer) got Markdown support, but I don't really like the default style and the font is the only thing you can change.
Nevertheless, yesterday I wrote a script and a css file to convert my Markdown files to PDF files from the command line easily (and with a style I like). The conversion to PDF is important for me as some of the humans around me do not seem to appreciate my markdown files ;-)
For synchronization across devices I use my Nextcloud.