For those not interested in electron, you can give VNote a try: https://tamlok.github.io/vnote
Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
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Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#62I kinda don't get why people end up building electron apps to, essentially, "act like it's native".
The app looks absolutely awesome, but i would have loved to just see it run in the browser, I'm kinda reluctant to install yet another memory-hog for basic tasks.
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#63Describing an electron app as “doesn’t suck” is pretty rich on its own, but even more so when you consider that there are several existing native macOS Markdown editors.
Being native isn't everything. As I mention in the readme I couldn't find an app that ticked all the boxes I'm interested in, which are: notes are written and rendered in GitHub-flavored Markdown, no WYSIWYG, no proprietary formats, I can run a search & replace across all notes, notes support attachments, the app isn't bloated, the app has a pretty interface, tags are indefinitely nestable and can import Evernote not…
I feel you on this, but for me the solution has been really simple so far: just a dedicated notes folder + good ol' atom.
Ticks all the boxes & uses nothing but my default workspace
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#64Visually, this application looks really nice, but where it falls down for me is in it's integration with macOS. My current Markdown editors all have iCloud sync as well as mobile applications so I can edit documents on my phone or tablet natively. I'd rather have deep vertical integration vs cross platform desktop use in an app like this.
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#65I used Typora https://typora.io/ > this year for my lecture notes and Notable lacks two crucial features that the former has: 1) LaTeX math support (i.e. MathJax). Being able to write inline formulas and using `align`, `table` etc. is a must in certain fields. 2) Notes in custom directory. Currently it seems that all your notes will be stored in your data directory, whereas I'd like to save my notes (and its assets)…
A similar WYSIWYG project I found recently, that is open-source:
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#66Monaco editor might be better than CodeMirror
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#67Monaco editor might be better than CodeMirror
codemirror is pretty good
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#68I kinda don't get why people end up building electron apps to, essentially, "act like it's native". The app looks absolutely awesome, but i would have loved to just see it run in the browser, I'm kinda reluctant to install yet another memory-hog for basic tasks.
One important reason people choose to use Electron instead of opening the app in a Browser window, is that the browser blocks a lot of standard keyboard shortcuts.
So for example, if you want to capture Ctrl+Tab and move to the next note, based on that, well, you can only do that in Electron. Another UX based reason, is that native menus offer a better UX than having to put buttons for each and every action inside the app.
So apart from the usual arguments of cross platform, and we already have JS developers, there are other good reasons to go with Electron.
Also, if you want to do something like display a decently advanced HTML view, WKWebkit might or might not cut it. And it get's updated only when the OS itself get's updated (atleast on older versions of OSX). So if that's the kind of thing you want your application to do, then you pretty much have no option other than Electron.
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#69I kinda don't get why people end up building electron apps to, essentially, "act like it's native". The app looks absolutely awesome, but i would have loved to just see it run in the browser, I'm kinda reluctant to install yet another memory-hog for basic tasks.
It's easy to "forget" if it's just a tab in a browser even if you bookmark it and gets buried in other 100s.
And also easy to close and lose any notifications than running in dock or menu tray.
Re: Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
#70I kinda don't get why people end up building electron apps to, essentially, "act like it's native". The app looks absolutely awesome, but i would have loved to just see it run in the browser, I'm kinda reluctant to install yet another memory-hog for basic tasks.
It's the closest you can reasonably get to truly cross-platform, and the buttons on notable very much don't look like "native" on my machine (win10). Yes I know about wxWidgets and so on but you still need to either distribute the runtime with each application separately, or risk "dll hell" if someone wants to run two programs with slightly different versions of some library.
Personally I hope some day chrome comes with an "electron runtime" option built in so I only need the framework once on my PC.